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Journal Club Schedule
(2004-2005)
Organizer: Joseph E.LeDoux


All meetings are held on Friday at 10:30 AM-12:30 PM (except where noted) in Meyer Hall, Room 1130 of the Center for Neural Science, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003.

Date Topic/Readings Host
September 4, 2004 Polyribosomes redistribute from dendritic shafts into spines with enlarged synapses during LTP in developing rat hippocampal slices. <Journal articles>
Kinesin Transports RNA; Isolation and Characterization of an RNA-Transporting Granule. RNA-Transporting Granule.<Journal articles>
Hiroki Hamanaka
September 12, 2004
( Room 815, 4pm)
Fear memories induce a switch in stimulus response and signaling mechanisms for long-term potentiation in the lateral amygdala.<Journal articles> Svetlana Rosis
September 19, 2004 Forgetting, reminding, and remembering: the retrieval of lost spatial memory
<Journal articles>
Jacek Debiec
September 24, 2004 Altered cortical synaptic morphology and impaired memory consolidation in forebrain- specific dominant-negative PAK transgenic mice.<Journal articles, pdf file, Full text> Raphael Lamprecht
October 8, 2004 Selective neurotoxic lesions of basolateral and central nuclei of the amygdala produce differential effects on fear conditioning.
<Journal article>
Jeff Erlich
November 2, 2004
(Tuesday, 12 PM)
SFN 2004 debrief N/A
November 12, 2004 Circuitry for associative plasticity in the amygdala involves endocannabinoid signaling. <Journal article> Christopher K Cain
December 10, 2004 Resetting of 'synaptic tags' is time- and activity-dependent in rat hippocampal CA1 in vitro.<Journal article>
Late-associativity, synaptic tagging, and the role of dopamine during LTP and LTD.<Journal article>
Torfi Sigurdson
January 14, 2005 Increased fear learning coincides with neuronal dysinhibition and facilitated LTP in the basolateral amygdala following benzodiazepine withdrawal in rats.<Journal article> Nesha Burghardt
January 21, 2005 The similarities and diversities of signal pathways leading to consolidation of conditioning and consolidation of extinction of fear memory.<Journal article> Francisco Sotres-Bayon
January 28, 2005 Abnormal Spine Morphology and Enhanced LTP in LIMK-1 Knockout Mice <Journal article> Raphael Lamprecht
Feburuary 17, 2005 (1)Lentivirus-based genetic manipulations of cortical neurons and their
optical and electrophysiological monitoring in vivo<Journal article>;
(2)Harnessing HIV for therapy, basic research and biotechnology<Journal article>;
(3)Novel approaches to monitor and manipulate single neurons in vivo<Journal article>.
Hiroki Hamanaka
Feburuary 25, 2005 Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity in the central nucleus of the
amygdala.<Journal article>.
Svetlana Rosis
March 4, 2005 Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Mauricio Delgado, NYU Psychology
March 11, 2005 A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage
<Journal Article PDF, Full text file>.
Jeff Erlich
March 18, 2005 Integration of selective breeding, QTL mapping and gene-expression profiling in the search for fear-learning genes in mice. Abraham Palmer
Columbia University
March 25, 2005 Differential encoding of behavior and spatial context in deep and superficial layers of the neocortex.
<Journal article, PDF, Full text>
Radhika Reddy
April 1, 2005
(12:30 )PM
Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Rita Goldstein
--- Brookhaven National Laboratory
April 8, 2005 Setting apart the affected: the use of behavioral criteria in animal models of post traumatic stress disorder <Journal article> Jacek Debiec
April 15, 2005
(12:30 PM, Room 878)
Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Yadin Dudai
Weizmann Institute of Science
April 22, 2005 Competing for memory: hippocampal LTP under regimes of reduced protein synthesis
<Journal article>
Torfi Sigurdson
April 29, 2005(11AM) Data talk Christopher K Cain
May 6, 2005 Postsynaptic Receptor Trafficking Underlying a Form of Associative Learning <Journal article> Nesha Burghardt
May 20, 2005 Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Wendy Suzuki
May 27,2005 The role of limbic-ventral striatal circuitry in
responding to stimuli with conflicting meanings
Daniela Schiller
June 3, 2005 Dopaminergic stimulation of local protein synthesis enhances surface expression of GluR1 and synaptic transmission in hippocampal neurons.<Journal article>
Hiroki Hamanaka
June 10, 2005 Conditioned suppression and freezing as measures of aversive Pavlovian conditioning: effects of discrete amygdala lesions and overtraining <Journal article> Svetlana Rosis
June 17, 2005 1).Vasopressin and Oxytocin Excite Distinct Neuronal Populations in the Central Amygdala <Journal article>
2). Oxytocin increases trust in humans. <Journal article>

Jeff Erlich
June 24, 2005 Hippocampal CA3 NMDA receptors are crucial for memory acquisition of one-time
experience. <Journal article>
Luke Johnson
July 1, 2005 to August 5, 2005 Summer Break
 
     
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