February Collins

Image of the Month

Heat map depicting the back-propagation of phasic dopamine signaling within the nucleus accumbens. Image captured using fast cyclic voltammetry as a rat learns to press a lever to earn a reward across sessions (y axis) time locked to a lever press (x axis).

Image by Jeff Bye and Annie Collins from the laboratory of BRI member, Kate Wassum. More about Dr. Wassum here.

 

 

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Neuroscience News Featured Article

BRI PHYSIOLOGISTS CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL NEUROSCIENCE IN THE PAST AND PRESENT

Image: Homology model of a P2X channel, with the pore lining second transmembrane domain shown in
grey, courtesy of the Khakh laboratory. More about Dr. Khakh here.
 
NANTHIA SUTHANA

Introducing the BRI's New Member

NANTHIA SUTHANA, Ph.D, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR-IN-RESIDENCE, DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY

Her research focus is on the neural basis of human learning and memory with a specific interest in how the brain forms and retrieves memories for facts and everyday events, and how this process may be facilitated through invasive and non-invasive surgical methodologies.

Dr. Suthana completed her Ph.D in Neuroscience at UCLA in the laboratory of Dr. Susan Bookheimer in collaboration with Dr. Barbara Knowlton, where she studied human medial temporal involvement during episodic memory formation. As a graduate student, she was twice the recipient of the UCLA Brain Research Institute Travel Award, Society for Neuroscience, and received the UCLA Jeffrey L. Hanson Award for Distinguished Service.

More about Dr. Suthana here.

DR. DAVID GLANZMAN

In the News

DR. DAVID GLANZMAN UNLOCKS POTENTIAL KEY TO MEMORY RESTORATION

His research, published in the online journal eLife sciences challenges the widely held idea that stable synapses store long-term memories, giving patients with early stage Alzheimer's disease hope. More about the study here.

More on Dr. Glanzman here. 

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March 3rd, 2015

UCLA Joint Seminars in Neuroscience presents the Charles H. (Tom) Sawyer Distinguished Lecture
Presented by Catherine Woolley, PhD
Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
"Neurosteroid Estrogens in the Hippocampus: Implications for Epilepsy"
Hosted by Art Arnold, PhD
4pm Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Special reception to follow

March 10th, 2015

UCLA Joint Seminars in Neuroscience presents the Brain Research Institute Twenty-Sixth Annual H.W. Magoun Lecture
Presented by Istvan Mody, PhD
Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
"Inhibition in the Brain: Watching the Wheels go Round and Round"
Hosted by Chris Evans, PhD
4pm Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Special reception to follow

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