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SUMMARY:Dr. Alex Kwan: Making synapses with psychedelics
DESCRIPTION:Zoom option if unable to attend in person:\nZoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”)\nMeeting ID: 91512 289258\nPasscode: 289258\n\nNumerous 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 often long-lasting\, presumably because the drugs act on synapses and dendrites to induce plasticity in the brain. In this talk\, I will describe a series of studies from my lab aimed at understanding the mechanism of action of psilocybin\, using subcellular-resolution two-photon imaging\, in vivo electrophysiology\, rabies viral tracing\, and other molecular and behavioral approaches in mice. The results provide insights into the drug action of psychedelics on neural circuits.
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-alex-kwan/
LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Alex Yu: Multiple neuropeptides underlie different forms of behavioural facilitation
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis week’s speaker is Alex Yu from the Behavioural Neurogenetics Lab.  \nZoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62773707502?pwd=SW9DrCTkXaS2LbDf9TEdVXgOHqTGAq.1 \nMeeting ID: 627 7370 7502\nPasscode: 1234 \nIf you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive reminders each week\, please email Melody Salehzadeh (msalehzadeh@zoology.ubc.ca) and/or Jackson Schumacher (schumacher@psych.ubc.ca).
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/michelle-jung-interaction-between-maternal-and-offspring-sucrose-consumption/
LOCATION:DMCBH Room 3402\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars
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SUMMARY:Dr. Anita Devineni: Neural processing for flexible feeding behaviors in Drosophila
DESCRIPTION:Zoom option if unable to attend in person:\nZoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”)\nMeeting ID: 91512 289258\nPasscode: 289258\n\nHow does the brain process sensory information to generate adaptive behaviors that are innate\, yet flexible? My lab investigates this question in the taste system of the fruit fly Drosophila\, which offers unique tools to study how individual neurons contribute to neural circuit computations and behavior. First\, I will discuss our work using optogenetics\, behavior\, calcium imaging\, and connectomic analyses to investigate how taste circuits transform sensory signals into motor actions. Second\, I will discuss a project that bridges experimental and theoretical approaches to understand how flies make foraging decisions. Through these studies\, we hope to uncover principles of neural processing that generalize across species.
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-anita-devineni/
LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Dr. Graham Collingridge: Glutamate receptors and synaptic plasticity in health and disease.
DESCRIPTION:Zoom option if unable to attend in person:\nZoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”)\nMeeting ID: 91512 289258\nPasscode: 289258\n\nWorking in the laboratory of the late Hugh McLennan (Department of Physiology\, UBC) Stephen Kehl and I discovered that NMDA receptors trigger the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippocampus.  Since these early experiments\, the roles of glutamate receptors and their associated signalling processes have been extensively studied.  I will provide an overview of the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and how this information is being used to understand the molecular basis of\, and to develop treatments for\, a wide variety of brain disorders.  In this respect\, I will summarise some of our recent work in the areas of neurodevelopmental\, psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases.
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-graham-collingridge/
LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Brittany Docolas: Intranasal administration of estradiol to increase motivation to exercise in rats
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis week’s speaker is Brittany Docolas from the Soma Laboratory. \nZoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62773707502?pwd=SW9DrCTkXaS2LbDf9TEdVXgOHqTGAq.1 \nMeeting ID: 627 7370 7502\nPasscode: 1234 \nIf you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive reminders each week\, please email Melody Salehzadeh (msalehzadeh@zoology.ubc.ca) and/or Jackson Schumacher (schumacher@psych.ubc.ca).
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/brittany-docolas-intranasal-administration-of-estradiol-to-increase-motivation-to-exercise-in-rats/
LOCATION:DMCBH Room 3402\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars
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SUMMARY:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy findings in Bipolar disorder: Do they predict recurrences?
DESCRIPTION:This month\, Dr. Chithra Pream Raju from UBC Psychiatry/Richmond Hospital will present “Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy findings in Bipolar disorder: Do they predict recurrences?” \nZoom link if unable to attend in person:\nhttps://ubc.zoom.us/j/5936706150?pwd=bWFoeDNGMkk2ZVNOQk9FTFZIT0lZdz09&omn=62102214283 \nMeeting ID: 593 670 6150\nPasscode: 506627
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/magnetic-resonance-spectroscopy-findings-in-bipolar-disorder-do-they-predict-recurrences/
LOCATION:DMCBH Room 3402\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Monthly Monday Rounds in Mental Health and Addictions
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SUMMARY:Dr. Anne Churchland: Movements and engagement during perceptual decision-making
DESCRIPTION:Zoom option if unable to attend in person:\nZoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”)\nMeeting ID: 91512 289258\nPasscode: 289258\n\nSwitching between cognitive states is a natural tendency\, even for trained experts. To test how cognitive state impacts the relationship between neural activity and behavior\, we measured cortex-wide neural activity during decision-making in mice. Task variables and instructed movements elicited similar neural responses regardless of state\, but the neural activity associated with spontaneous\, uninstructed movements became highly variable during disengagement. Surprisingly\, this heightened variability was not due to an increase in movements: behavioral videos showed equally frequent movements in both cognitive states. But while the movement frequency remained similar\, movement timing changed: as animals slipped into disengagement\, their movements became erratically timed. These idiosyncratic movements were a strong predictor of task performance and drove increased variance in neural activity. Our results argue that movements constitute an embodied signature of cognitive state. These observations lay the foundation for future large-scale recording experiments in freely moving animals that we will conduct using novel tools that we have recently developed.
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-anne-churchland/
LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Anna Mazurenko: Direct measurement of free glucocorticoids in rodent serum using ultrafiltration and LC-MS/MS
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis week’s speaker is Anna Mazurenko from the Soma Laboratory. \nZoom link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/62773707502?pwd=SW9DrCTkXaS2LbDf9TEdVXgOHqTGAq.1 \nMeeting ID: 627 7370 7502\nPasscode: 1234 \nIf you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive reminders each week\, please email Melody Salehzadeh (msalehzadeh@zoology.ubc.ca) and/or Jackson Schumacher (schumacher@psych.ubc.ca).
URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/anna-mazurenko-direct-measurement-of-free-glucocorticoids-in-rodent-serum-using-ultrafiltration-and-lc-ms-ms/
LOCATION:DMCBH Room 3402\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Behavioural Neuroscience Seminars
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