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Towards ubiquitous and continuous measurement of the brain function with fNIRS – 2/5/2018
Hasan Ayaz Drexel University Abstract: Significant progress has been made over the last decades in understanding the physiological and neural bases of cognitive processes and behavior. The advent of […]
Oxytocin: A New Approach to Treating Addiction – 1/29/2018
Mary Lee National Institutes of Health Abstract: Direct evidence of cerebrospinal fluid penetrance of oxytocin after intranasal and intravenous administration and effect of systemic oxytocin administration on methylphenidate-induced changes in […]
How the brain controls behavior: Using flies to study motor control at the circuit level – 9/25/2017
Claire McKellar Janelia Research Campus/HHMI Abstract: Investigating how the nervous system controls complex behaviors in simple animals could reveal mechanisms that are fundamental to behavior across species. Cutting-edge genetic tools […]
Seeing What Others Cannot See – 10/2/2017
Thomas G. West Author of Thinking Like Einstein and In the Mind’s Eye Krasnow Institute Advisory Board Member Abstract: For over 25 years, Thomas West has been a leading advocate […]
Modeling and quantification of astrocyte activity from calcium imaging data – 10/16/2017
Guoqiang Yu Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Abstract: Recent studies have suggested that astrocytes exert proactive regulatory effects on brain information processing and that they are deeply involved in […]
Cellular and molecular aberrations in Neurodevelopmental disorders associated with autism, intellectual disability and related disorders – 10/30/2017
Jyothi Arikkath University of Nebraska Medical Center Abstract: Autism spectrum disorders represent a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by deficits in social interaction, communication skills and repetitive behavior. These […]
The Future for Advanced Studies: Integrating Team Science and Convergence – 11/6/2017
Jim Olds Schar School and Krasnow Institute George Mason University Abstract: When we think of ‘Advanced Studies’ in the context of science, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton (IAS) […]
The Challenge of Modeling Cognition for Computational Social Science – 3/20/2017
Bill Kennedy Assistant Professor Center for Social Complexity Computational Social Science Program Abstract: Computational Social Science (CSS) uses models of cognition, mostly human cognition. Zero intelligence agents may be useful […]
A novel role for Drosophila Amyloid Precursor Protein in regulating axonal retrograde trafficking of selective cargoes – 3/6/2017
Tanja Godenschwege Florida Atlantic University Department of Biological Sciences Abstract: One of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the presence of β-amyloid plaques that result from abnormal processing […]
Of Form and Function: Stochastic Optimization Elucidates Role of Dynamics in Proteinopathies – 2/27/2017
Amarda Shehu Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science George Mason University Abstract: All processes that maintain and replicate a living cell involve moving biomolecules. The energy landscape underscores the inherent […]
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