Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Helen Scharfman (Professor, NYU Langone School of Medicine) talks about aberrant neurogenesis following seizure activity in the dentate gyrus, and discusses models of how…

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Philip Sabes (Associate Professor, UCSF) talks about modeling complex behaviors that remain relevant and specifically tailored to the  physiology of real neurons and neur…

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Thomas Blanpied (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of  Medicine) talks about molecular organization at the post-synaptic density, models of receptor mobi…

Thursday, September 1, 2011

David McCormick (Dorys McConnel Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine) talks about flexibility of information coding in neural systems, and the complex…

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Kara Federmeier (Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) talks about prediction in language production and comprehension, and how ERPs are used to revea…

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Anne Young (Julianne Dorn Professor of Neurology, Harvard MGH) talks about her early studies of basal ganglia functional anatomy, and how they led  to her famed dual pathway …

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Dieter Jaeger (Professor, Emory University) talks about the complexity of modeling systems whose biological function is ill-defined, and how to determine how complex a model …

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Rama Ratnam hosts William Brownell (The Jake and Nina Kamin Chair of Otolaryngology and  Head and Neck Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine) as he discusses electromechanical s…

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Thomas Cleland (Cornell University) discusses the idea of olfactory receptive fields, and the problems associated with compressing the high-dimensional parameters of odor …

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Charlie Wilson hosts Joshua Berke (Associate Professor, University of Michigan  at Ann Arbor) in a discussion about action representations in the striatum.  The problemati…

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Jonathan Pillow (Assistant Professor, UT Austin) talks about using assumption-free statistics to to extract structure from high dimensional data.  The group discusses level…

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Leigh  Leasure (University of Houston) talks about the dueling effects of  exercise and binge alcohol consumption on cell health and proliferation  in the dentate gyrus.  T…

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Bill Spain (Professor, University of Washington) talks about spike frequency adaptation in the avian auditory system and cortex, and considers the utility of adaptation for…

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Peter Narins (Professor, UCLA) talks about being a member of the founding generation of neuroethologists in the 1970s, and of his pivotal work describing both ultrasonic an…

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Ranier Gutierrez (Assistant Professor, CINVESTAV, Mexico) talks about oscillations in the distributed network that regulates feeding  behaviors, its entrainment by licking, …

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Paul E. Gold (Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) discusses the idea of studying memory loss to study the process of memory formation and his studies of f…

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Theoden (Tay) Netoff (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota) discusses seizure from a clinical and dynamical systems perspective, and weighs in on the  debate as t…

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Elizabeth Quinlan (University of Maryland, College Park) discusses the relevance of critical periods to plasticity, given current trends in post-critical  period plasticit…

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Clive Bramham (University of Bergen, Norway) discusses the BDNF and the immediate early gene ARC, and some of the  history of LTP and how it came to be known as a potential m…

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Brian Christie (Professor, University of Victoria BC) talks about proliferation and survival of newly born hippocampal neurons, and  exercise as a modulator of neurogenesis i…