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2003-2004 Academic Year Schedule

Organizer: Joseph E.LeDoux

10:30 am - 12:30 noon.

Meyer Hall, Room 1130


 

Date

 

Topic/Readings

 

Organizer /Speaker
September 12, 2003
( Room 815,4pm)
The Senses and Psychology of Quality Ross Jordon
(Enology International)
September 19,2003 Emotional Memory Functions of the Human Amygdala, Part I Kevin LaBar
Duke University
September 26, 2003 (1) Context-dependent neuronal activity in the lateral amygdala
represents fear memories after extinction.<Journal article>
(2) Potentiation of amygdaloid and hippocampal auditory-evoked potentials in adiscriminatory fear-conditioning task in mice as a function of tone pattern and context <Journal article>
Valerie Doyere
October 3, 2003
(10AM)
Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Elizabeth Phelps
October 10, 2003 (1) LTP leads to rapid surface expression of NMDA but not AMPA receptors in adult rat CA1
(2) Long-term regulation of NMDA receptor subunits and associated synaptic proteins following hippocampal synaptic plasticity.
Torfi Sigurdsson
October 17, 2003 Impaired Long-Term Memory and NR2A-Type NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in mice lacking c-Fos in the CNS.<Journal article>
Svetlana Rosis
October 24, 2003 Stimulation of medial prefrontal cortex decreases the responsiveness of central amygdala output neurons.<Journal article> Elizabeth Bauer
October 31, 2003 (1) Dual 5-HT mechanisms in basolateral and central nuclei of amygdala in the regulation of the defensive behavior induced by electrical stimulation of the inferior colliculus<Journal article>
(2) Destruction of the inferior colliculus disrupts the production and inhibition of fear conditioned to an acoustic stimulus<Journal article>
Jeffrey Erlich
November 7, 2003 Neuroscience Meeting  
November 14, 2003 Neuroscience Meeting - New Orleans  
November 20, 2003 SFN Debrief  
November 21, 2003 SFN Debrief  
November 28, 2003 SFN posters  
December 5, 2003 Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Joseph LeDoux
December 11, 2003
(5 PM)
Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Kevin LaBar
Duke University
December 12, 2003 SFN Debrief  
January 9, 2004
(Meyer R-815)
Taking STEPs to limit MAP kinase signaling Paul J. Lombroso, M.D.
Professor Child Study Center Yale University School of Medicine
January 16, 2004 Neural Substrates Mediating Human Delay and Trace Fear Conditioning
<Journal article>
Annemieke Shoute
January 22, 2004
(Thrusday 11:15 AM. Room 815 )
Aversive Conditioning and Multiple Brain-Memory Systems Jeansok Kim
University of Washington
January 30, 2004 Ventral medial prefrontal cortex and emotional perseveration: the memory for prior extinction training.<Journal article> Francisco Sotres-Bayon
February 13, 2004
Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Kevin LaBar
Duke University
February 20, 2004 Requirement of Hippocampal Neurogenesis for the Behavioral Effects of Antidepressants.
<Journal article>
Nesha Burghardt
February 27, 2004 Structural plasticity and memory <Journal article> Raphi Lamprecht
March 12, 2004 Presynaptic induction of heterosynaptic associative plasticity in the
mammalian brain. <Journal article-Abstract, Full Text, PDF>
Svetlana Rosis
March 19, 2004 Distinct Roles of Hippocampal De Novo Protein Synthesis and Actin Rearrangement in Extinction of Contextual Fear <Journal article> David Bush
March 26, 2004 1. NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic reinforcement as a crucial process for memory consolidation.<Journal article>
2. Inducible and Reversible NR1 Knockout Reveals Crucial Role of the NMDA Receptor in Preserving Remote Memories in the Brain. <Journal article>
Torfi Sigurdsson
April 2, 2004
(10 AM)
Congnitive Neuroscience Journal Club Turhan Canli
SUNY Stony Brook
April 16, 2004 Regional cerebral blood flow in the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex during traumatic imagery in male and female Vietnam veterans with PTSD. <Journal article> Jacek Debiec
April 23, 2004 Corticotrophin releasing factor-induced synaptic plasticity in the amygdala translates stress into emotional disorders.<Journal article>
Elizabeth Bauer
April 30, 2004 Data talk: "What does LA spiking do? Correlations between behavior and neural activity at ~250 ms time scales."
Jeff Erlich
May 14, 2004 Translational control by MAPK signaling in long-term synaptic plasticity and
memory.<Journal article>
Hiroki Hamanaka
May 21, 2004 Learning not to fear: Prefrontal cortex-induced inhibition of the amygdala Francisco Sotres-Bayon
June 2, 2004 Data talk: Generation of amygdala cell culture Sevil Duvarci
June 11, 2004 Neurobiology of fear ontogeny within infant attachment<Journal articles 1, 2, 3> Regina M Sullivan.Ph.D
Professor of Behavioral neuroscience
Department of Zoology University of Oklahoma
June 25, 2004 Neural dynamics that underlie the privileged 'selection' into awareness
of negative emotion.
Dr.Talma Hendler
Director, Brain Function Imaging; Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
July 15, 2004
(Thursday)
Mechanisms of Conditional Fear Extinction in Mice Chris Cain, UCLA
July 30, July 2004 Cerebellar role in fear-conditioning consolidation.<Journal articles>
Torfi Sigurdsson
August 6, 2004 Memory reconsolidation and extinction have distinct temporal and biochemical signatures. <Journal articles> David Bush
August 13, 2004 Resistance to extinction is associated with impaired immediate early gene induction in medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala. <Journal articles>
Francisco Sotres
August 20, 2004 Feedback inhibition defines transverse processing modules in the lateral amygdala. <Journal articles> Luke Johnson
August 27, 2004 Changes in anxiety-related behaviors and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity in mice lacking the 5-HT-3A receptor. <Journal articles> Nesha Burghardt
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