Neuroscience Seminar Series
SEMINAR SPEAKERS (2011-2012)
Date |
Presenter |
Talk Title |
Article |
September 27, 2011 |
Dr.Georg Zoidi (CRC chair in Neuroscience, York University) |
"Electrical synapses in health and disease " | |
| October 25, 2011 | Vinod Goel (York University) | "Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Rational Thought" | Anatomy of deductive reasoning (PDF) |
| November 22,2011 | Thomas Paus (The Rotman Research Institute) | "How Environment and genes shape adolescent brain" | Orbitofrontal Cortex and Drug Use During Adolescence (PDF) |
| December 13, 2011 | Dave Williams (Southlake Regional Health Centre, Canadian Space Agency) | "My brain in Space" | Emergencies in Space (PDF) |
| January 24, 2012 | Scott MacDougall-Shackleton (University of Western Ontario) | "Neuroendocrinology of developmental and seasonal neuroplasticity in songbirds" | Corticosterone and Dehydroepiandrosterone Have Opposing Effects on Adult Neuroplasticity in the Avian Song Control System (PDF) |
| February 28, 2012 | Joanne Nash (University of Toronto) | "Understanding Changes In Synaptic Plasticity In The Parkinsonian Striatum" | Altered function of glutamatergic cortico-striatal synapses causes output pathway abnormalities in a chronic model of parkinsonism (PDF) |
| March 27, 2012 | Laurie Doering (McMaster University) | "Astrocytes and the Fragile X Syndrome" | Astrocytes Prevent Abnormal Neuronal Development in the Fragile X Mouse (PDF) |
| April 17, 2012 | Ingrid Johnsrude (Queen's University) | "How what you know makes it easier to understand speech in noise" | Human auditory cortex is sensitive to the perceived clarity of speech (PDF) |
SEMINAR SPEAKERS (2010-2011) |
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Date |
Presenter |
Talk Title |
Article |
Sept 21, 2010 |
Dr. Thomas James (Dept of Psychology, Indiana University) |
"Assessing Multisensory Integration with Additive Factors and Functional MRI " | An additive-factors design to disambiguate neuronal and areal convergence: measuring multisensory interactions between audio, visual, and haptic sensory streams using fMRI (PDF) |
Oct. 26, 2010 |
Dr. Elizabeth Pang (Sick Kids Research Institute) |
"Mapping language production with MEG" | Task-Related Modulation of Early Cortical Responses during Language Production: An Event-Related Synthetic Aperture Magnetometry Study (PDF) |
Nov 30, 2010 |
Dr. George Mochizuki (Sunnybrook Research Institute) |
"Organization and Function of the CNS in Human Balance Control" |
Perturbation-Evoked Cortical Activity Reflects Both the Context and Consequense of Postural Instability (PDF) |
Dec 14, 2010
(Postponed due to York emergency closure) - see below |
Dr. Stefan Kohler (University of Western Ontario) |
"Neural mechanisms of familiarity assessment" | Impaired familiarity with preserved recollection after anterior temporal-lobe resection that spares the hippocampus (PDF) |
Jan 25, 2011 |
Dr. Alison Fleming (CRC in Neurobiology, The University of Toronto at Mississauga) |
"Dopamine: another magic bullet in the regulation of maternal behaviour?" | Horomones that increase maternal responsiveness affect accumbal dopaminergic respoinse to pup- and food-stimuli in the female rat (PDF) |
| Mar 1, 2011 | Dr. Claude Alain (Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre) | ||
| Mar 17, 2011 | Dr. Stefan Kohler (University of Western Ontario) |
"Neural mechanisms of familiarity assessment" | Impaired familiarity with preserved recollection after anterior temporal-lobe resection that spares the hippocampus (PDF) |
Mar 29, 2011 |
Dr. Melanie Woodin (University of Toronto) |
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Apr 26, 2011 |
Dr. Jody Culham (University of Western Ontario) |
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All seminars will be held in the Norman Endler Seminar Room, Behavioural Sciences Building, Rm. 163 at 4pm. Students will be notified of any change to room locations.
All first year Diploma students, please note:
1. You are to submit 1(min) or 2 questions based on the assigned article to Farisa Mohammed (farisa@yorku.ca) the week prior to the seminar.
2. You are required to attend the "Tea Time" meeting with the Speaker in 163BSB at 2:30pm on the day of the seminar.
