Thursday, October 13, 2011

Kamran Khodakhah (Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) talks with the group about information coding in cerebellar cortex and his foray  into translational research with a model of rapid onset dystonia.  The  group discusses the current NIH push for translational research at the  expense of basic science and debates the idea of cerebellum as a motor learning structure.

Duration: 45 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

James Bower (Prof, UTSA/UTHSCSA)

Carlos Paladini (Assoc. Prof UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.