Victor M. Bearg Neuroscience Lecture Series
The Victor M. Bearg neuroscience lecture series is sponsored by Victor M. Bearg ('64), a Mellon College of Science graduate in physics. Mr. Bearg has generously endowed this Neuroscience Institute speaker series to bring dynamic lecturers to our community.
Editing neural circuits using engineered synaptic bypasses
For decades, psychiatrists have focused on changes in brain chemistry as the underlying cause of mental illness. But the brain is both chemistry and electricity. This talk will explore a future in which psychiatric illness is diagnosed by measuring and mapping changes in electrical impulses in the brain, and treated by editing neural circuits to correct the flow of electricity within and across brain regions.
October 28, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. EST
Kafui Dzirasa, M.D. Ph.D.
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor
Laboratory for Psychiatric Neuroengineering, Principle Investigator
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Departments of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, Neurosurgery
Center for Neuroengineering
Duke University Medical Center
Elizabeth Ransey, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Laboratory for Psychiatric Neuroengineering, Senior Investigator
Duke University
Previous Speakers
2020
Erich Jarvis
Professor, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University
Evolution of brain pathways for vocal learning and speech; a personal journey
October 15, 2020
2019
Sophie Scott
University College London
The Neuroscience of Laughter
November 8, 2019
Watch Recording
2018
Timothy Lillicrap
Google Deep Mind
Deep Learning and the Brain: Does the Brain Approximate Backpropagation?
April 12, 2018
Watch Recording
2017
Gerald E. Loeb
University of Southern California and CEO, SynTouch, Inc.
Understanding Human Haptics by Building Robotic Systems
March 8, 2017
Watch Recording
2016
Mriganka Sur
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Functional Logic of Cortical Circuits
February 29, 2016
Not recorded
