Neurobiology of Behavior Seminars A series devoted to the neuroscience of behavior and its disorders |
| DATE | TITLE OF LECTURE | NAME OF SPEAKER |
| Sept. 15, 1998 (now available online) |
"Where are My Keys? Transgenic and Pharmacologic Manipulations of LTP and Memory" |
Mark G. Barad, M.D., Ph.D. Resident, Department of Psychiatry Columbia University |
Oct. 20, 1998 |
"Opiate Drugs and Opioid Receptor Trafficking |
Chris Evans, M.D. UCLA Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences |
Nov. 17, 1998 (now available online) |
"In Vivo Libraries of Transgenic Mice to Identify Behavioral Genes" |
Desmond Smith, M.D. Assistant Professor UCLA Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology |
Dec. 15, 1998 (now available online) |
"Endogenous Opioid Peptides and Drug-Seeking Behavior" |
Nigel Maidment, Ph.D. Associate Professor UCLA Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences |
January 19, 1999 (now available online) |
"Trophic Regulation of Synaptic Plasticity: Implications for Memory" |
Ira B. Black, M.D. Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
February 4, 1999 |
A Special Thursday Neurobiology of Behavior Seminar at 12:00 Noon "Regulation of Vesicular Neurotransmitter Transporters" |
David E. Krantz, M.D., Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology University of California, San Francisco |
February 16, 1999 |
"Dynamics of Cortical Memory Network" |
Mark Bodner, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences University of California, Los Angeles |
March 8, 1999 |
A Special Monday NBS at 11:00 A.M. conducted in association with the Search Committee and the Director of Psychiatry and Primatology at the Sepulveda VA Hospital "A Primal Odyssey: 20 Years of Monkeying Around with Behavior, Brains, and Disease" |
Jay R. Kaplan, Ph.D. Professor of Comparative Medicine & Anthropology Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
March 15, 1999 |
A Special Monday NBS at 11:00 A.M. conducted in association with the Search Committee and the Director of Psychiatry and Primatology at the Sepulveda VA Hospital "Cholinergic Systems in the Brain: Relevance for Clinical Neuropsychiatry" |
Robert T. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Center for Neurosciences Research MCP * Hahnemann School of Medicine Allegheny University of the Health Sciences |
March 16, 1999 |
"Refining Behavioral Phenotypes: Lessons From Prader-Willi and Williams Syndromes" |
Elisabeth Dykens, M.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences University of California, Los Angeles |
March 17, 1999 |
A Special Wednesday NBS at 11:00 A.M. conducted in association with the Search Committee and the Director of Psychiatry and Primatology at the Sepulveda VA Hospital "Serotonin and Brain Circuitry Mediating Ritualistic Territorial Displays in Amniotes" |
Lewis R. Baxter, Jr., M.D. Kathy Ireland Professor of Psychiatric Research, and Professor, Department of Neurobiology The University of Alabama at Birmingham |
April 15, 1999 |
A Special Thursday NBS at 10:00 A.M. "Probing the Molecular Mechanisms of G-Protein Mediated Modulation of Neuronal Ion Channels" |
Mark S. Shapiro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics University of Washington |
April 20, 1999 |
"Dendritic mRNAs and Neuronal Plasticity: Implications for Memory and Dementia" |
Joseph B. Watson, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences University of California, Los Angeles |
May 6, 1999 |
A Special Thursday NBS at 11:00 A.M. "Origins of Neocortical Interneurons in the Ventrical Forebrain: Role of Dlx Genes in Cortical Neurogenesis" |
Stewart A. Anderson, M.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco |
May 11, 1999 |
A Special NBS at 9:00 A.M. "Strategies in Neurobehavior Genetics" |
Hans W. Moises, M.D. Director, Molecular Genetics Laboratory Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Kiel, Germany |
May 17, 1999 |
A Special Monday NBS at 11:00 A.M. "Structure and Function of Mammalian Kainate Receptors" |
Geoffrey T. Swanson, Ph.D. Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA |
May 18, 1999 |
No NBS- APA Meeting | |
May 25, 1999 |
"Neuropeptides, Behavior, and Development" |
James A. Waschek, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences University of California, Los Angeles |
| All lectures are held in the Louis Jolyon West Auditorium in the NPI Building (C8-183, 740 Westwood Plaza), routinely on the third Tuesday of the month at 9:00 AM. Questions can be directed to the Office of Professional and Community Education at (310) 206-9241 or by email to opce@MentalHealth.UCLA.edu. |