BC Neuroscience Day
Paetzold Auditorium, Vancouver General Hospital 899 West 12th Avenue, VancouverForum at which faculty from the BC Neuroscience community present topics along with an invited professor/Keynote speaker.
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Danqing Zhu candidate presentation
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverGene therapy, the delivery of genetic material to the cells of a patient for therapeutic benefit, has been increasingly successful over the past decade. The most successful gene delivery vectors […]
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Dr. Rutsuko Ito: Ventral hippocampal circuits and the arbitration of approach-avoidance conflict
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverApproach-avoidance (AA) conflict resolution is a form of decision making that is fundamentally important for survival and requires the effective evaluation of affective stimuli or events with mixed outcomes (positive […]
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Tatsuya Tsukahara candidate presentation
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverTo interpret the sensory world and select appropriate actions, animals must distinguish persistent background stimuli from novel sensory cues. Sensory adaptation is a neural mechanism that enables such filtering of […]
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Dr. Kate Wassum: Amygdala circuitry in reward learning and decision making
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverTo make adaptive decisions we must cast ourselves into the future and consider the outcomes of our potential choices. This prospective consideration is informed by our memories. I will discuss […]
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Science Communication Career Workshop
OnlineAre you interested in science communication as a career but aren’t sure how to make it happen? Join the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and the Women’s Health Research […]
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Majid Mohajerani candidate presentation
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverSpontaneous activity accounts for most of what the brain does and is likely to be key for information processing in the brain, but its function is still quite mysterious. Two […]
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Dr. Edward F. Chang: Towards a Speech Neuroprosthetic
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverSpeaking is a unique and defining human behavior. Over the past decade, we have focused on deciphering the basic neural code that underlies our ability to speak fluently. During speech […]
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Heart rate variability (HRV) correlates of functional MRI in humans
DMCBH Room 3402 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverThis month, Komal Bharti from the Vila-Rodriguez lab in the Department of Psychiatry will present on "Heart rate variability (HRV) correlates of functional MRI in humans." Zoom link if unable […]
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Dr. Bojana Stefanovic: Neurovascular unit dysfunction in a model of TBI
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverMild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is the most common type of traumatic brain injury globally. Although its consequences may be short term, mTBI often leads to long-term neuropsychiatric and neurological […]
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Dr. Shigeki Watanabe: Ultrafast recycling of synaptic vesicles
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverIn 1973 John Heuser and Tom Reese demonstrated that neurotransmitter was released from neurons via the fusion of neurotransmitter-filled vesicles with the cell membrane. But at the same time, these […]
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Dr. Pascal Kaeser: Mechanisms and Roles for Fast Dopamine Signaling
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, VancouverDopamine is a neuromodulator that codes information on various time scales. I will discuss recent progress on the identification of fast release mechanisms for dopamine in the mouse striatum. I will present data […]
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Neuroscience Research Colloquium
The Neuroscience Research Colloquium (NRC), is a series of lectures featuring local and international neuroscientists.