Episode 95 -- Julie Kauer, PhD
Thursday, February 28, 2013
\nJulie 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.
\nDuration: 42 minutes
\nDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)
\nCarlos Paladini (Assoc Prof, UTSA)
\nSalma Quraishi (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nDenard Simmons (PhD student, Paladini Lab UTSA)
\nTodd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nCharles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
\nacknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.