Neuroscientists Talk Shop

Thursday, October 13, 2011 Kamran Khodakhah (Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) talks with the group about information coding in cerebellar cortex and his foray  into translational research with a model of rapid onset dystonia.  The  group discusses the current NIH push for translational research at the  expense of basic science and debates the idea of cerebellum as a motor learning structure. Duration: 45 minutes Discussants:(in alphabetical order) James Bower (Prof, UTSA/UTHSCSA) Carlos Paladini (Assoc. Prof UTSA) Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA) Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA) Todd Troyer (Prof, UTSA) acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.