Event Date and Time
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Location
Room 1103 in the Bioscience Research Building
Dr. Patricia Janak, Johns Hopkins University (Host: Sarah Perry)
Title: Subcortical Reward Representation and Evaluation
Abstract:
The experience of a reward, such as the ingestion of food, is accompanied by dynamic patterns of neuronal activity across many brain regions. For example, reward ingestion is often accompanied by brief increases in spike activity by dopamine neurons, amygdala neurons, and neurons in the basal ganglia. I will discuss our approach to understanding the behavioral functions of this reward-elicited activity with a focus on reward signals that promote future reward seeking behavior.
Below is a link to a paper by Dr. Janak that will be relevant to her talk.
