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Sleep is a fundamental biological process, and its disruption has profound impacts on human health. Using a variety of techniques including optogenetics, electrophysiology, imaging, and gene…
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Yang Dan Date
March 9th, 2020
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How do neurons perform the set of signaling functions necessary for proper circuit function? We aim to uncover cellular and molecular mechanisms that shape excitability among different mammalian…
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Matthew Rowan Date
February 17th, 2020
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Most brain functions involve neuronal population activity that is distributed across multiple areas. The routing of signals through this distributed network is flexible, changing from…
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Adam Kohn Date
February 10th, 2020
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Over 400 million years ago, a group of tiny six-legged creatures evolved the ability to fly—an event that fundamentally transformed our planet. Equipped with the ability to fly, insects…
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Michael Dickinson Date
February 3rd, 2020
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Daniel O'Connor discusses his laboratory’s recent work on the sensorimotor control of complex tongue movements. The brain generates complex sequences of movements that can be flexibly…
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Daniel O’Connor Date
January 27th, 2020
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Animal behavior depends both on the intrinsic properties of individual neurons and how these neurons connect to and modulate one another. A major focus of modern neuroscience is to dissect behavior…
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Alberto Stolfi Date
November 25th, 2019
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In this talk, I first discuss our recent work on modeling, decoding, and controlling multisite human brain activity underlying mood states. I present a multiscale dynamical modeling framework that…
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Maryam Shanechi Date
November 11th, 2019
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Michael Stryker's laboratory studies the development and plasticity of the central visual system. Most of his laboratory's effort focuses on the role of neural activity in the primary…
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Michael Stryker Date
December 18th, 2019
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Karen Rommelfanger: No longer unthinkable: Neuroethics questions for the 21st century neuroscientist Ranu Jung: The Bioethics of Implantable Biohybrid Systems Aaron Batista: Neuroethics and the…
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Karen Rommelfanger, Ranu Jung, Aaron Batista, Caleb Kemere, Byron Yu Date
November 6th, 2019
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While human research has emphasized the large-scale network disruptions in the epilepsies and their co-morbidities, basic science has typically focused on local networks. In rodents, more general…
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Nigel Pedersen Date
October 28th, 2019
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is an extraordinary amount of variation in social behavior within and across
species. However, when phenotypic convergence in behavior (e.g., sociality) is
observed, it begs the question as to…
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Aubrey Kelly Date
October 7th, 2019
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The ability to learn and produce skilled movements is required for humans to successfully engage with each other and their environment. A principal role of the brain is to guide current, and plan…
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Michael Borich Date
September 30th, 2019
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Glia are the most abundant cell types in the mammalian nervous system. They are integral to normal brain physiology, yet we still understand very little about what functions they perform, how they…
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Steven A. Sloan Date
September 23rd, 2019
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The last 20 years of brain imaging research has revealed the functional organization of the human brain in glorious detail, including dozens of cortical regions each of which is specifically engaged…
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Nancy Kanwisher Date
September 16th, 2019
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How the brain makes movements fast, smooth and accurate has remained a mystery. In this talk I will discuss our studies identifying predictive, adaptively scaled activity in a cerebellar output…
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Abigail Person Date
September 9th, 2019
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According to complementary learning systems theory, integrating new memories into a multi-layer neural network without interfering with what is already known depends on interleaving presentation of…
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James L. McClelland Date
April 15th, 2019
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