Episode 99 -- Samuel Pfaff, PhD
Thursday, April 18, 2013 Sam Pfaff (HHMI, Salk Institute) discusses the heterogeneity of spinal interneurons, vertebrate neural development, and central pattern generators. Duration: 42 minutes Discus...
18 Apr 201342min
Episode 98 -- Charles "Lee" Cox, PhD
Thursday, April 11, 2013 Lee Cox (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) discusses some of the challenges in investigating thalamic investigation, the contribution of the thalamus to sensory proc...
11 Apr 201341min
Episode 97 -- Gordon M Shepherd, MD, DPhil
Thursday, April 4, 2013 Gordon Shepherd (Yale) discusses the idea that all cortical circuitry is based on elaboration of a basic microcircuit. The group discusses ideas that have shaped the understan...
4 Apr 201343min
Episode 96 -- Russell Poldrack
Thursday, March 7, 2013 Russell Poldrack (UT Austin) discusses how cognitive fMRI studies are evolving from a focus on "blobology" to the new emphasis on data mining methods that focus on network con...
7 Mars 201338min
Episode 95 -- Julie Kauer, PhD
Thursday, February 28, 2013 Julie Kauer (Brown University) discusses her work on plasticity and addiction, specifically her discovery of the potentiation of GABA synapses (GABA-LTP) on dopamine neuro...
28 Feb 201342min
Episode 94 -- Barbara Finlay
Thursday, February 21, 2013 Barbara Finlay (Cornell University) discusses her comparative brain development database, "Translating Time." She takes questions from the group regarding the significance...
21 Feb 201339min
Episode 93 -- Jocubas Ziburkus, PhD
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
Episode 92 -- William Armstrong, PhD, redux
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
