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Note: You will find here the PDF of the current journal club paper(s) only. The papers from the previous journal clubs can be accessed through the PubMed links.

The Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club: APPL 595B - Spring 2011

The Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club: APPL 595B - Fall 2010

Lab Journal Club: Summer 2010.
David's Workshops: Summer 2010

Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club: Jan-May 2010.

Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club: Jan-May 2009.

Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club: Sept-Dec 2008 .

Monday Sept 8th, 2008, 1:30pm: Lab Meeting, Moderator Bethany.
Stress Impairs Reconsolidation of Drug Memory via Glucocorticoid Receptors in the Basolateral Amygdala. J Neuroscience, 2008. <PubMed Link>.

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008: Lab Meeting, Moderator Jean-Marc.
Fiorillo CD, Newsome WT, Schultz W. The temporal precision of reward prediction in dopamine neurons. Nat Neurosci. 2008. <PubMed Link> .

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008: Lab Meeting, Moderator Jose. Same paper as last week!
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008: Lab Meeting, Moderator Jose. Same paper as last week.

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008: Lab Meeting, Moderator Jose
Ravenstijn PG, Merlini M, Hameetman M, Murray TK, Ward MA, Lewis H, Ball G, Mottart C, de Ville de Goyet C, Lemarchand T, van Belle K, O'Neill MJ, Danhof M, de Lange EC. The exploration of rotenone as a toxin for inducing Parkinson's disease in rats, for application in BBB transport and PK-PD experiments. J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods. 2008 Mar-Apr;57(2):114-30. <PubMed Link>.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008: Lab Meeting, Moderator Sarah
Christine A. Rabinak, Joshua M. Zimmerman, Chun-hui Chang, and Caitlin A. Orsini. Bidirectional Changes in the Intrinsic Excitability of Infralimbic Neurons Reflect a Possible Regulatory Role in the Acquisition and Extinction of Pavlovian Conditioned Fear. J. Neurosci. 2008; 28 7245-7247.<PubMed Link>.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008: Lab meeting, Moderator Nadia
Alexis Faure, Sheila M. Reynolds, Jocelyn M. Richard, and Kent C. Berridge. Mesolimbic Dopamine in Desire and Dread: Enabling Motivation to Be Generated by Localized Glutamate Disruptions in Nucleus Accumbens. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(28):7184 –7192, 2008. <PubMed Link> .

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008: Lab meeting. Moderator: Wahab
E.Y. Pioli, W. Meissner, R. Sohr, C.E. Gross, E. Bezard and B.H. Bioulac. Differential behavioral effects of partial bilateral lesions of ventral tegmental area or substantia nigra pars compacta in rats Neuroscience 153(4), Pages 1213-1224, 2008. <PubMed Link> .

Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club: Jan-May 2008.

Monday Sept 10th, 2007: CNS meeting, J club. Moderator Lan
Shu-Chen Li, Yvonne Brehmer, Yee Lee Shinga, Markus Werkle-Bergnera and Ulman Lindenberger. Neuromodulation of associative and organizational plasticity across the life span: Empirical evidence and neurocomputational modeling. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Volume 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 775-790. <PubMed Link> .

----------------------------------- Hiatus --------------------------------------
March 19th: Moderator: Zaneta
Haider B,Duque A,Hasenstaub AR,McCormick DA. Neocortical network activity in vivo is generated through a dynamic balance of excitation and inhibition. J Neurosci. 2006 Apr 26;26(17):4535-45.<PubMed Link>.
March 12th, 2007: Moderator: Thabelo. Continuation of last week.
March 5th, 2007: Moderator: Thabelo
Bartho P,Slezia A,Varga V,Bokor H,Pinault D,Buzsaki G,Acsady L. Cortical control of zona incerta. J Neurosci. 2007 Feb 14;27(7):1670-81. <PubMed Link>.
Feb 26th, 2007: Moderator: Lan
Ulanovsky N, Moss CF. Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely moving echolocating bats. Nat Neurosci. 2007 Feb;10(2):224-33. <PubMed Link>.
Feb 19th, 2007: Moderator: Marco
Ji D, Wilson MA. Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep. Nat Neurosci. 2007 Jan;10(1):100-7. <PubMed Link>.
Feb 12th, 2007: Moderator: Chris
Melanie Wilke, Nikos K. Logothetis, and David A. Leopold. Local field potential reflects perceptual suppression in monkey visual cortex. PNAS, 2006;103;17507-17512. <PubMed Link>.
Feb 5th, 2007: Moderator Kati
Lakatos P,Chen CM,O'connell MN,Mills A,Schroeder CE. Neuronal oscillations and multisensory interaction in primary auditory cortex. Neuron 53(2):279-92, 2007. <PubMed Link>
Jan 29nd, 2007: Moderator Jean-Marc
Isomura Y,, Sirota A,Ozen S, Montgomery S,Mizuseki K,Henze DA,Buzsaki G. Integration and segregation of activity in entorhinal-hippocampal subregions by neocortical slow oscillations. Neuron. 2006 Dec 7;52(5):748-9. <PubMed Link>
Dec 6th, 2006: Moderator: Jean-Marc
Wilensky AE,Schafe GE,Kristensen MP,LeDoux JE. Rethinking the fear circuit: the central nucleus of the amygdala is required for the acquisition, consolidation, and expression of pavlovian fear conditioning. J Neurosci. 2006 Nov 29;26(48):12387-96. <PubMed Link>
Nov 29th, 2006 : Moderator Kevin
Paz R,Pelletier JG,Bauer EP,Pare D.Emotional enhancement of memory via amygdala-driven facilitation of rhinal interactions. Nat Neurosci. 2006 Oct;9(10):1321-9.<PubMed Link>.
Oct 30th, 2006: Moderator Kati
Pape HC, Narayanan RT, Smid J, Stork O, Seidenbecher T. Theta activity in neurons and networks of the amygdala related to long-term fear memory. Hippocampus. 2005;15(7):874-80. <PubMed Link>
Sept 25th, 2006: No Jclub today.
Sept 18th, 2006: Moderator Marco
The Jclub will be based on a recent 2006 Neural Computation paper. Because this paper is somewhat theoretical, Marco assigns the Science 2001 paper as primary reading, and the 2006 paper as supporting material.
Modulation of oscillatory neuronal synchronization by selective visual attention. Fries P, Reynolds JH,Rorie AE,Desimone R. Science. 2001 Feb 23;291(5508):1560-3.<PubMed Link>.
Assessing neuronal coherence with single-unit, multi-unit, and local field potentials. Zeitler M,Fries P,Gielen S. Neural Comput. 2006 Sep;18(9):2256-81.<PubMed Link>.
Sept 11th, 2006: Moderator Jean-Marc
Dopamine cells respond to predicted events during classical conditioning: evidence for eligibility traces in the reward-learning network.Pan WX, Schmidt R, Wickens JR, Hyland BI. J Neurosci. 2005 Jun 29;25(26):6235-42. <PubMed Link>.
Sept 4th, 2006: Labor day
Aug 28th, 2006: Moderator: Marco
Midbrain dopamine neurons encode decisions for future action.Morris G,Nevet A,Arkadir D,Vaadia E,Bergman H. Nat Neurosci. 2006 Aug;9(8):1057-63.< PubMed Link>
Aug 21st, 2006: Moderator: Clayton
Role of dopamine in the primate caudate nucleus in reward modulation of saccades. Nakamura K, Hikosaka O. J Neurosci. 2006 May 17;26(20):5360-9. <PubMed Link>
Aug 14th, 2006: No J club
Aug 7th, 2006: Moderator: Natalie
Statistical assessment of time-varying dependency between two neurons. Ventura V,Cai C,Kass RE. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Oct;94(4):2940-7.<PubMed Link>
July 31st, 2006: Moderator: Kevin
Neuronal signals in the monkey basolateral amygdala during reward schedules. Sugase-Miyamoto Y, Richmond BJ.J Neurosci. 2005 Nov 30;25(48):11071-83.<PubMed Link>
July 24th, 2006. Moderator: Chris
Mode and site of acupuncture modulation in the human brain: 3D (124-ch) EEG power spectrum mapping and source imaging. Chen AC, Liu FJ, Wang L, Arendt-Nielsen L. Neuroimage. 2006 Feb 15;29(4):1080-91. <PubMed Link>
July 17th, 2006. Moderator: Alex
Identification of network-level coding units for real-time representation of episodic experiences in the hippocampus. Lin L, Osan R, Shoham S, Jin W, Zuo W, Tsien JZ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Apr 26;102(17):6125-30. <PubMed Link>