Thursday, February 28, 2013
Julie Kauer (Brown University) discusses her work on plasticity and addiction, specifically her discovery of the potentiation of GABA synapses (GABA-LTP) on dopamine neurons. The group discusses how acute drugs and stress produce a persistent block of GABA-LTP, and how this phenomenon might be significant to behavior, addiction and its relevance to the reward prediction error function of dopamine neurons.
Duration: 42 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Carlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA)
Salma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Denard Simmons (PhD student, Paladini Lab UTSA)
Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
