Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Arnold Kriegstein (UCSF) discusses differences in proliferative zones of human and mouse, and his group's discovery of a novel class of neurogenic radial glia in the outer subventricular zone of human neocortex, which  may have provided a critical evolutionary step underlying increased  cortical size and complexity in the human brain.

Duration: 43 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gary Gaufo (Assoc Prof, UTSA

Annie Lin (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Recorded: Thursday, December 12, 2013

Friday, December 6, 2013

In December 2013, The UTSA Neurosciences institute assembled a group of premier biophysicists to discuss "Power Law Dynamics in the Brain."   Recorded after the day's talks, this episode has Charlie Wilson (UTSA) leading the group in covering a wide range of topics on scale-invariant network dynamics as they relate to neural systems, including consideration of criticality and optimality.

Participants:

Larry Abbott (Columbia University)

Jim Bower (Boston University)

John Beggs (University of Indiana)

Dietmar Plenz (NIMH)

Charles Wilson (UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (UTSA)

Duration: 35 minutes

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Louis  Reichardt (UCSF/Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) discusses his techniques driven neuroscience, and his thoughts on moving heading the SFAR).

Duration: 35 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Gerard Beaudoin (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)

Gary Gaufo (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Annie Lin (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Lena Ting (Georgia Tech/ Emory) discusses her biomechanical approach for understanding neural control of motor systems.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Ellen Lau (University of Maryland) discusses the field of neurolinguistics,  and its approach to neural mechanisms of language.  The group discusses the Wernicke-Geschwind model, and some cognitive scientists' resistance to the idea of prediction as a driving force in language.

Duration: 42 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Professor, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Ani Patel (Tufts University) discusses the neuroscience of music, and its overlap with language processing networks.  He describes his OPERA  hypothesis, that describes some of the conditions for plasticity in the brain in response to musical training.

Duration: 36 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Bharath Chandrasekaran (Asst Prof, UT Austin)

Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Assoc Prof, UTSA)

Nicole Wicha (Asst Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgment: JM Tepper for original music