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Journal Club Schedule
(2005-2006)

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.

(Last updated: December 28th, 2004.)

Date Topic/Readings Host
August 12. 2005 A subpopulation of neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex encodes emotional learning with burst and frequency codes through a dopamine D4 receptor-dependent basolateral amygdala input.
<Journal article>
Francisco Sotres-Bayon
August 19, 2005 The V1a Vasopressin Receptor Is Necessary and Sufficient for Normal Social Recognition: A Gene Replacement Study <Journal article>
Radhika Reddy
August 26, 2005 Systemic blockade of D2-like dopamine receptors facilitates extinction of conditioned fear in mice <Journal article> David Bush
September 9, 2005 Long-term potentiation persists in an occult state following mGluR-dependent depotentiation
<Journal article>
Linnaea Ostroff
September 16, 2005 PI3 kinase signaling is required for retrieval and extinction of contextual memory.
<Journal article>
Christopher K Cain
September 23, 2005 Previous Stress Facilitates Fear Memory, Attenuates GABAergic Inhibition, and Increases Synaptic Plasticity in the Rat Basolateral Amygdala.<Journal article>
Torfi Sigurdsson
September 30, 2005 Simultaneous Use of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone Test and Combined Dexamethasone/Corticotropine-Releasing Hormone Test for Severity Evaluation and Outcome Prediction in Patients with Major
Depressive Disorder.<Journal articles: 1, 2, 3>
Koichi Isogawa
October 7, 2005 MiB Journal Club Cheryl Conrad
October 21, 2005 Common Molecular Pathways Mediate Long-Term Potentiation of Synaptic Excitation and Slow Synaptic Inhibition. <Journal article>
Hiroki Hamanaka
October 28, 2005 Lesions of the Basal Amygdala Block Expression of Conditioned Fear But Not Extinction.
<Journal article>
Nesha Burghardt
December 2, 2005 MiB Journal Club Margaret Altemus, M.D.
Cornell University Medical College
December 9, 2005 (11AM) Synaptic integration and dendritic calcium signaling in striatal medium spiny neurons <Related article 1, 2> Adam Carter
December 16, 2005 Noradrenergic modulation of emotion-induced forgetting and remembering. <Journal article> Jacek Debiec
January 6, 2006 MiB Journal Club Dr. Clayton Curtis, Psychology Department at NYU
January 13, 2006 post-doctoral candidate talk Dr. Julio Pozueta
Madrid Technical College of Architecture
January 20, 2006 Animal models of affective disorders and borderline personality disorder Dr. Klaus Lieb
January 27, 2006 1) Disrupting reconsolidation of drug memories reduces cocaine-seeking behavior.
<Journal article>
2) Neural substrates of cocaine-cue associations that trigger relapse. <Journal article>
David Bush
February 3, 2006 MiB Journal Club Ina Weiner
Tel Aviv University, Israel, Psychology Department.
February 10, 2006 Increased sensitivity to restraint stress and novelty-induced emotionality following long-term, high dose cannabinoid exposure.
<Journal article>
Radhika Reddy
February 17, 2006 A Specialized Subclass of Interneurons Mediates Dopaminergic Facilitation of Amygdala Function<Journal article>
Svetlana Rosis
February 24, 2006 Enhancement of conditioned fear extinction by infusion of the GABAA agonist muscimol into the rat prefrontal cortex and amygdala.
<Journal article>
Francisco Sotres
March 3, 2006
.......... mPFC data talk ..............
Suggested reading articles:

1) Fast Spiking and Regular Spiking Neural Correlates of Fear Conditioning in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex of the Rat.
2)The amygdala modulates prefrontal cortex activity relative to conditioned fear.
3)Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction .
Jeff Erlich
March 10, 2006 The dosage of the neuroD2 transcription factor regulates amygdala development and emotional learning.<Journal article >
Marie Monfils
March 17, 2006 Neuronal activity determines the protein synthesis dependence of long-term potentiation.
<Journal article>
Christopher K Cain
March 31, 2006 Cascade Models of Synaptically Stored Memories. <Journal article>
Linnaea Ostroff

April 7, 2006

Pathway-Specific Trafficking of Native AMPARs by In Vivo Experience. <Journal article>
Hiroki Hamanaka
Fyssen acceptance speech "en francais" Joseph LeDoux
April 21, 2006 Combined restraint and cold stress in rats effects on memory processing in passive avoidance task and on plasma levels of ACTH and corticosterone. <Journal article>
Koichi Isogawa
April 26, 2006 (12:00PM) A Computational Study into the Evolution of Dual-Route Dynamics for Affective Processing. <Journal article>
David Bush
April 27, 2006 (12:00PM) Special lecture: Noise-induced tinnitus: The consolidation of peripheral trauma in the rat.
Yadin Dudai
The Sara and Michael Sela Professor of Neurobiology
May 16, 2006(Tuesday, 12:00PM) Role of the mTOR Signaling Pathway in the Amygdala Lana Katsnelson
June 2, 2006 Different mechanisms of fear extinction dependent on length of time since fear acquisition.<Journal article>
A commentary to the paper-Is extinction of fear erasure or inhibition? Why both, of course
Francisco Sotres
June 9, 2006 Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state.<Journal article>
*<Supplementary information>
*<A useful News and Views article>
Torfi Sigurdson
June 16, 2006 Data talk. <Related article> Jacek Debiec
June 23, 2006 The primate amygdala represents the positive and negative value of visual stimuli during learning. <Journal article>
Jeffrey Erlich
July 19, 2006
(12: PM, Wednesday)
A talk on stress and learning Georgia Hodes
Tracy Shores' lab at Rutgers
July 26, 2006 (Wednesday, 11 AM) "PKMz regulation of Na/K ATPase: A potential endogenous neuroprotective mechanism of ischemic preconditioning"
Denzi Tian SUNY Downstate Med Center
Aug 3, 2006 (Thursday,1 PM) Research on Viral Trafficking Between Neurons and Glia Jean Pierre Roussarie
From Pasteur Institute in Paris
     


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