<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>Just a reminder about the talk this afternoon. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div>Bryan </div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Bryan Tripp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bptripp@gmail.com" target="_blank">bptripp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>We have a special seminar shortly after Brain Day this year, by Matt van der Meer from Dartmouth College. Many of you will know Matt from his time here at the University of Waterloo, as a professor in the Department of Biology, and coincidentally, past organizer of the CTN Seminar Series. </div><div><br></div><div>Bryan</div><div><br></div><div><div>"Oscillations as an organizing principle for understanding information processing in the rodent ventral striatum"</div><div><br></div><div>The ventral striatum (vStr) is a central node in brain circuits that contribute to motivated behavior, and its dysfunction is consistently implicated in the etiology of substance use disorders. Despite major research efforts focused on this brain structure, it has proven difficult to synthesize its structure, dynamics and function into a coherent theory. I will present data from rodents suggesting that oscillations in vStr activity provide an organizing principle, albeit one full of pitfalls, to address this issue. These oscillations highlight the dynamic nature of interactions with input structures such as the prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex, and the surprising role of the piriform cortex in coordinating these interactions. Beyond providing new insights into vStr function, these results also provide a striking example of the complex relationships between spiking activity and local field potentials.</div></div><div><br></div></div>
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