Neuropsychiatric Institute
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.