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Journal Club Schedule
(2007-2008)
Organizer: Joseph E.LeDoux

All meetings are held on Friday at 10:30 AM-12:30 PM (except where noted) in Meyer Hall, Room 815 of the Center for Neural Science, 4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003.

(Last updated: September 4, 2007.)

Date Topic/Readings Host
September 7, 2007 Epigenetic mechanisms in fear learning and memory

Kiriana Cowansage
September 21, 2007 The sound of silence: learning to fear a sensory absence
Kiriana Cowansage; Marie Monfils and Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix
September 28, 2007 Extinction-induced Reconsolidation Blockade
Marie Monfils
October 4, 2007 Signaling to the Nucleus: Role for Histone H3 Phosphorylation in Transcription Elongation <Relatedl articles: Review, Manuscript>
Caline Karam
October 5, 2007 MiB Journal Club Karim Nader
Psychology Department, McGill University
October 11, 2007 Identification and characterization of novel proteins in the mTOR signaling pathway. <Journal article> Maria Frias
October 12, 2007 Synaptic ultrastructure in the lateral amygdala
Linnaea E Ostroff
October 19, 2007 Update on Escape from Fear and Recovery from Fear.
Christopher K Cain
October 26, 2007 A neural substrate and mechanism for instructive signaling during fear conditioning Joshua Johansen
November 9, 2007 SFN 2007 debrief
November 16, 2007 Data talk Robert Levy
November 16, 2007 Oscillations and synchrony in the amygdala Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix
December 7, 2007 MiB Journal Club Todd Sacktor
Dept. of Physiology, Pharmacology, and Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
December 14, 2007 Effects of Norepinephrine on LA neurons Hillary Schiff
January 16, 2008 Blockade of amygdala beta-adrenergic receptors attenuates fear conditioning David Bush
January 25, 2008 Noradrenergic signaling in infralimbic cortex increases cell excitability and
strengthens memory for fear extinction. <Journal article>
Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz
February 22, 2008 Viagra for Synapses: Prolonging
the Duration of LTP Through Stimulation of Noradrenergic Receptors
Peter Nguyen
Centre for Neuroscience and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, CA
February 29, 2008 Modifying the Pavlovian Paradigm to Examine the Amygdala in Cocaine-Cue Formation
Jennifer Law
March 7, 2008 Data talk on Pavlovian-instrumental transfer, avoidance, and stress/conditioning Christopher Cain
March 21, 2008 Data talk: The molecular basis for
individual differences
Kiriana Cowansage
April 1, 2008 (2:30PM) Data Talk Yadin Dudai
April 11, 2008 Noradrenergic Modulation of Basolateral Amygdala Neuronal Activity: Opposing Influences of-2 and Receptor Activation. <Journal Article> Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix
April 18, 2008 Behavioral blockade of reconsolidation prevents return of fear
Marie Monfils
April 25, 2008 Data talk on:Structural changes at LA synapses with fear learning

Linnaea E Ostroff
May 25, 2008 Data talk: Lateral amygdala infusions of corticotropin-releasing factor have opposing effects on formation and expression of fear conditioning. Kiriana Cowansage
May 30, 2008 A novel test of an old idea: Does Hebbian plasticity mediate neural and
behavioral changes during associative learning <Journal Article> .
Joshua Johansen
June 6, 2008 (Room 1135) The Central Capsular (CeC) Amygdala As a Site of Plasticity During Fear Conditioning
Justin Little


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