Dendritic spine dynamics underlying animal behaviours
Dendritic spines are the major memory elements in the brain, and their properties deeply influence brain functions and disorders. I will introduce recent findings in our laboratory: GABA actions on spine shrinkage and elimination, a critical time window for dopamine on spine enlargement for reinforcement learning, intrinsic turnovers of spines in wild type and fragile X mice, spine enlargement in neocortical pyramidal neurons of awake adult mice, and protein-synthesis dependent optogenetic probes to image and manipulate memory spines and animal behaviors.
Date:
23 March 2015, 16:00
Venue:
Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details:
Library
Speaker:
Dr Haruo Kasai (The University of Tokyo)
Organisers:
Michael Song (University of Oxford),
Sebastian Vasquez Lopez (University of Oxford),
Oliver Barnstedt (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
oliver.barnstedt@cncb.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Sebastian Vasquez Lopez (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Cortex Club
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Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
http://www.cortexclub.com/
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Oliver Barnstedt
