Michelle Jung: Effects of maternal sucrose consumption during pregnancy on maternal and fetal glucocorticoids

DMCBH Room 3402 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Join us for the UBC Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars (BNS), a lecture series featuring DMCBH trainees and professors in a casual setting. Talks take place from 3-4 pm every Friday in DMCBH 3402A-C and on Zoom. RSVP is not required. This week's speaker is Michelle Jung from the Soma lab. Zoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61318867702?pwd=VER4SC9FSGFzSW5TZHFKWi8vaUlEUT09 Meeting ID: 613 […]


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Dr. Alex Kwan: Making synapses with psychedelics

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Numerous drugs have the ability to alter our perception, cognition, and mood. Some of these compounds, such as ketamine and serotonergic psychedelics, have also shown promise as treatment for mental illnesses. The behavioral effects are […]


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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy findings in Bipolar disorder: Do they predict recurrences?

DMCBH Room 3402 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

This month, Dr. Chithra Pream Raju from UBC Psychiatry/Richmond Hospital will present “Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy findings in Bipolar disorder: Do they predict recurrences?” Zoom link if unable to attend in person: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/5936706150?pwd=bWFoeDNGMkk2ZVNOQk9FTFZIT0lZdz09&omn=62102214283 Meeting ID: 593 670 6150 Passcode: 506627


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Dr. Sophie Caron: The ecological mind — making sense of the world with a tiny brain

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Brains are evolved to learn, enabling animals to respond flexibly to an unpredictable world and to draw on experience to guide future behaviors. To learn efficiently, brains need to balance a high degree of flexibility […]


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Dr. Sandeep Robert Datta: Structure and meaning in natural behavior

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 Ethologists describing animals in the wild have long appreciated that naturalistic, self-motivated behavior is built from modules that are linked together over time into predictable sequences. Many such sequences are built to extract information from […]


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