Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, February 7, 2013 Jocubas Ziburkus (University of Houston) talks about in vitro models of epilepsy, both pharmacological and genetic, and the role of inhibitory interneurons and neuromodulato...

7 Feb 201345min

Thursday, January 31, 2013 William Armstrong (University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center) talks about developing the intracellular biocytin labeling technique. This is a follow up to our 2008 tal...

31 Jan 201352min

Thursday, November 15, 2012 Simon Giszter (Drexel School of Medicine) discusses spinal cord modularity based on the idea of motor primitives as optimization learning constraints that can be flexibly m...

15 Nov 201234min

Thursday, September 27, 2012 Mark Laubach (Yale School of Medicine) discusses mouse frontal cortex as a model for human frontal cortical function. He talks about the anterior cingulate cortex as an a...

27 Sep 201228min

Thursday, September 20, 2012 Barry Connors (Brown University) talks about the historical timeline of research on electrical synapses. He discusses his experimental exploration of synchrony in cortic...

20 Sep 201246min

Thursday, April 26, 2012 Anastassios Tzingounis (University of CT) discusses the mysterious slow after-hyperpolarization current, and talks about a candidate component mechanism he has described that ...

26 Apr 201245min

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Erich Jarvis (Duke University/HHMI) discusses evolutionary origins of the vocal motor learning pathway in songbirds, his new work on vocal communication in a new mammalian spe...

24 Apr 20121h 2min

Thursday, April 19, 2012 Bharath Chandrasekaran (UT Austin) discusses the corticocentric view of cognitive brain research, and how he has optimized of functional imaging techniques for study of audito...

12 Apr 201239min