Monday, November 30, 2009

Katalin  Gothard (Associate Professor, University of Arizona) expands on the  role of amygdala in fear conditioning, emphasizing that the ecology of a  species and the subtle social cues that drive its behavioral repertoire  are key to undertaking studies of amygdala function.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Jose Bargas Diaz (Professor, UNAM)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.