Neurochemistry

Sun, May 19, 2013 - 2:39am

May

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1 12:00pm - 01:00pm Christian Langkammer - Insights into tissue composition and microstructure by postmortem MRI 02:00pm - 03:00pm Gabrielle Liverant - Relations among Smoking, Anhedonia, and Reward Learning in Unipolar Sepression 02:30pm - 03:30pm Dima Amso - The Utility of Visual Attention: Evidence from Typical and Atypical Development	2 05:00pm The role of fMRI in Cognitive Science: A discussion with Rebecca Saxe and Brian Scholl 06:00pm - 07:00pm Steven Hassan - Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers	3 01:00pm - 02:00pm David Osher - Function Follows Form: How Connectivity Patterns Govern Neural Responses 04:00pm - 05:00pm Linda Van Aelst - The role of G proteins in neuronal development and plasticity	4	5
6 10:00am - 11:00am Retsina Meyer - Neurobiologically-motivated treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in an animal model	7 12:00pm - 01:00pm Leon Bergen - The lexicon in learning and pragmatic inference 04:30pm - 06:00pm Rosemary Varley - Language and Thought: evidence from severe aphasia	8 08:30am - 05:30pm 2013 McGovern Institute Symposium: NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT 12:00pm - 01:00pm Chongzhao Ran - Optical Imaging of Amyloidosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Brown Adipose Tissue	9	10	11	12
13 12:00pm - 01:00pm Joshua Buckholtz - The Causal Biology of Antisocial Behavior 12:00pm - 01:00pm Brian Kangas - Touchscreen Technology and the Preclinical Pharmacology of Complex Behavior 05:00pm - 06:30pm MIT Workshop: Transforming Science Coverage in the General Media	14 12:00pm - 01:00pm Laura Schulz's Infant and Childhood Cognition class 04:00pm - 05:00pm Joshua Sanes - Wiring up the retina 04:00pm - 05:00pm Suzanne Corkin - The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.	15 06:00pm - 07:00pm Lawrence Fitzgerald - Opportunities and Challenges in Drug Discovery for Autism Spectrum Disorders	16 04:00pm - 05:00pm Paul Greengard - Understanding the Molecular Basis of Major Depressive Disorder: A Work in Progress	17 10:30am - 12:00pm Oded Ghitza - Speech perception, cortical theta oscillations and auditory channel capacity	18	19
20 01:00pm - 02:00pm Chia-huei Tseng-Perceptual grouping in visual search	21 02:00pm - 03:00pm Krista Ehinger - Visual Features for Scene Recognition and Reorientation	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29 02:00pm - 03:00pm Amanda Tarullo - Developmental Consequences of Early Deprivation: Neural Function, Diurnal Cortisol Activity, and Social Behavior in Post-institutionalized Children	30	31

Time:

Wed, Sep 7, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar St Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3002

The MIT Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience (MCN)
Program's Fall 2011 Seminar Series

Bertil Hille (University of Washington)

Happy Hour will follow from 5-6 PM

Time:

Mon, Sep 26, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MIT Bldg 46-3002

The 2011 Scolnick Prize has been awarded to Bruce McEwen of The Rockefeller University for his contributions to understanding how hormones affect the brain. The McGovern Institute will award the prize to Dr. McEwen on September 26, 2011.

Following the presentation of the prize, Dr. McEwen will deliver a public lecture entitled "Sex, Stress and the Brain: hormone actions above the hypothalamus via novel mechanisms."

Time:

Tue, Aug 2, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Place:

220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Harvard Medical School, Goldenson 122.

Harvard Program in Neuroscience

http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/neuroscience/News.html

Time:

Wed, Sep 21, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar St Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 46-3002

Nurit Ballas, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Stony Brook University

Abstract:

Time:

Tue, May 24, 2011 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

McLean Hospital, Pierce Hall, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA

Laura Bohn (The Scripps Research Institute)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/message/6921

Time:

Wed, May 18, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Place:

43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139; MIT Building 46-3002

The Autism and Developmental Disorders Colloquium Series at MIT

Lisa M. Monteggia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Hosted by Showming Kwok, Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain and Cognitive
Sciences Department, MIT

Please RSVP to lmavros@mit.edu

Time:

Fri, Apr 15, 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Place:

200 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Harvard Medical School, Warren Alpert Building Room 341.

Sonia Cohen (Dissertation Defense Seminar, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard).

Advisor: Dr. Michael E. Greenberg

Time:

Wed, Apr 20, 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Place:

72 East Concord Street, Boston. Boston University School of Medicine, R-115.

A. Leslie Morrow (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/message/6862

Time:

Tue, Apr 12, 2011 - 10:00am - 11:00am

Place:

4 Blackfan Street, Boston. Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Bray Room.

Nadia Litterman (Program in Neuroscience Dissertation Seminar)

Time:

Mon, Apr 11, 2011 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Place:

220 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Harvard Medical School, Goldenson Building 122.

Sidharth Puram (Harvard Medical School Dissertation Defense Seminar)

Boston-NeuroTalks Calendar 3.0

May

Keywords:

Bertil Hille - G-protein Coupled Receptors Rule the Mind through Phosphoinositide Signals

Bruce McEwen - Sex, Stress and the Brain: hormone actions above the hypothalamus via novel mechanisms

Stefan Kaczmarek - Novel activation mechanisms of TRPC5 reveal its participation in neuronal growth cone collapse

Nurit Ballas - Why must the brain have MeCP2? A new paradigm for understanding the mechanism underlying the autism spectrum disorder Rett Syndrome

Laura Bohn - Functional selectivity for GPCR signaling in vivo: Implications for improving CNS therapeutics

Lisa Monteggia - Role of MeCP2 in Regulating Synapse Function and Behavior

Sonia Cohen - Activity-Dependent Phosphorylation of MeCP2 in Neural Development and Rett Syndrome

Leslie Morrow - Ethanol regulation of GABAA receptor trafficking: Mechanisms and Physiological Significance

Nadia Litterman - Regulation of Golgi Morphogenesis and Dendrite Patterning by Ubiquitin Signaling

Sidharth Puram - Calcium-Regulated Ubiquitin Signaling at the Centrosome Drives Dendrite Patterning in the Mammalian Brain

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