Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Nace Golding (UT Austin) discusses dendritic integration and microsecond temporal processing in the auditory cortex.

Duration: 35 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical orde…

Richard Zigmond (Case Western Reserve) discusses macrophage action in peripheral nerve regeneration.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA

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Shaowen Bao (UC Berkeley) discusses auditory critical periods, the use of statistically complex, naturalistic auditory stimuli to probe species-specific auditory processing and representations.  He d…

Arnold Kriegstein (UCSF) discusses differences in proliferative zones of human and mouse, and his group's discovery of a novel class of neurogenic radial glia in the outer subventricular zone of huma…

Friday, December 6, 2013

In December 2013, The UTSA Neurosciences institute assembled a group of premier biophysicists to discuss "Power Law Dynamics in the Brain."   Recorded after the day's talks, …

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Louis  Reichardt (UCSF/Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) discusses his techniques driven neuroscience, and his thoughts on moving heading the SFAR).

Duration: 3…

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Lena Ting (Georgia Tech/ Emory) discusses her biomechanical approach for understanding neural control of motor systems.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical o…

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Ellen Lau (University of Maryland) discusses the field of neurolinguistics,  and its approach to neural mechanisms of language.  The group discusses the Wernicke-Geschwind …

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Ani Patel (Tufts University) discusses the neuroscience of music, and its overlap with language processing networks.  He describes his OPERA  hypothesis, that describes s…

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Eric Fortune (NJIT) discusses the neural bases of cooperative behavior in duetting songbird pairs.

Duration: 50 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi…

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Cameron  McIntyre (Case Western Reserve) discusses the idea of being able to  "dose" deep brain stimulation (DBS), and how it is now being used to treat neuropsychiatric d…

Daniel Ansari (University of Western Ontario) discusses the new field of Mind,  Brain and Education (sometimes called Neuroeducation) which seeks to bring evidence based practice and empirical calcul…

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

Discu…

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 pro…

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 understa…

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 co…

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 neur…

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Barbara Finlay (Cornell University) discusses her comparative brain development database, "Translating Time."  She takes questions from the group regarding the significanc…

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 neuromodulat…

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 ta…