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CUNY Graduate Center: The Brain and Smell

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Partner:: CUNY
Location:: Proshansky Auditorium
New York, NY
Event Date:: 04.03.12
Speakers:: Laurence F. Abbott,; Richard Axel
Tags:: brain; mind; neurology; Neuroscience; evolutionary neuroscience

Summary: Richard Axel, Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, and Laurence F. Abbott, professor of neuroscience, Columbia University discusses the science of neurology and the brain."

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Laurence F. Abbott

Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and co-director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics at Brandeis University in 1977 and spent ten years working in theoretical particle physics. His research in neuroscience involves the mathematical modeling and analysis of neurons and neural networks, using analytic techniques and computer simulation to show how populations of neurons interact to produce functional circuits. The goal is to determine the mechanisms by which networks of neurons represent, store and process information. Previous research has involved examinations of the role of homeostatic plasticity, studies of spike-timing dependent synaptic plasticity, and development of the dynamic clamp. Current research topics include multi-timescale models of synaptic plasticity, analysis of network dynamics with applications to sensory processing and motor pattern generation, and modeling olfactory processing in the fly. Abbott is the recipient of an NIH Pioneer Award and is the co-authored of a widely used textbook on theoretical neuroscience.

Richard Axel

Richard Axel is an American neuroscientist whose work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-doctoral scientist in his research group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004.

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01.: Introduction

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01.: Introduction

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01.: Introduction

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02.: Opening Remarks

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02.: Opening Remarks

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02.: Opening Remarks

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03.: Why Olfaction?

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03.: Why Olfaction?

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03.: Why Olfaction?

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04.: They Scientific Cycle

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04.: They Scientific Cycle

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04.: They Scientific Cycle

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05.: How We Smell

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05.: How We Smell

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05.: How We Smell

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06.: How We Smell (From a Theoretical Standpoint)

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06.: How We Smell (From a Theoretical Standpoint)

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06.: How We Smell (From a Theoretical Standpoint)

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07.: Assigning Meaning to Smell

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07.: Assigning Meaning to Smell

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07.: Assigning Meaning to Smell

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08.: The Effect of Experience

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08.: The Effect of Experience

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08.: The Effect of Experience

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09.: Manipulating the Olfactory Cortex

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09.: Manipulating the Olfactory Cortex

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09.: Manipulating the Olfactory Cortex

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10.: Where is Meaning in Smell?

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10.: Where is Meaning in Smell?

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10.: Where is Meaning in Smell?

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11.: Conclusion

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11.: Conclusion

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11.: Conclusion

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12.: Q&A: How Do Discoveries in Scent Tie to Other Senses

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12.: Q&A: How Do Discoveries in Scent Tie to Other Senses

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12.: Q&A: How Do Discoveries in Scent Tie to Other Senses

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13.: Q&A: What About Innate Smells?

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13.: Q&A: What About Innate Smells?

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13.: Q&A: What About Innate Smells?

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14.: Q&A: How Many Molecules Are Necessary to Trigger Smell?

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14.: Q&A: How Many Molecules Are Necessary to Trigger Smell?

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14.: Q&A: How Many Molecules Are Necessary to Trigger Smell?

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15.: Q&A: Can You Reverse Olfactory Stimuli?

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15.: Q&A: Can You Reverse Olfactory Stimuli?

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15.: Q&A: Can You Reverse Olfactory Stimuli?

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16.: Q&A: Deciphering Receptor Pathways

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16.: Q&A: Deciphering Receptor Pathways

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16.: Q&A: Deciphering Receptor Pathways

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17.: Q&A: Does the Brain Make the Top Down Model Subservient?

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17.: Q&A: Does the Brain Make the Top Down Model Subservient?

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17.: Q&A: Does the Brain Make the Top Down Model Subservient?

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18.: Q&A: In the Face of Major Threats, Can You Have a Learning Process?

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18.: Q&A: In the Face of Major Threats, Can You Have a Learning Process?

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18.: Q&A: In the Face of Major Threats, Can You Have a Learning Process?

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The 'Primitive' Sense of Smell and the Brain

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American neuroscientist Richard Axel discusses the problem of interpreting the real world within the tangled web of neurons within the brain. Axel focuses on one of the brain's most "primitive" senses, the sense of smell.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

brain: Side view of the brain showing its major structures. The large cerebrum is divided into two halves, …© Merriam-Webster Inc.Concentration of nerve tissue in the front or upper end of an animal's body. It handles sensory information, controls motion, is vital to instinctive acts, and in higher vertebrates is the centre of learning. Vertebrate brains consist of the hindbrain (rhombencephalon), midbrain (mesencephalon), and forebrain (prosencephalon). The hindbrain comprises the medulla oblongata and the pons, which connects the spinal cord with higher brain levels and transfers information from the cerebral cortex to the cerebellum. The midbrain, a major sensory integration centre in other vertebrates, serves primarily to link the hindbrain and forebrain in mammals. Large nerve bundles connect the cerebellum to the medulla, pons, and midbrain. In the forebrain the two cerebral hemispheres are connected by a thick bundle of nerve fibres (corpus callosum) and are divided by two deep grooves into four lobes (frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital). The cerebrum, the largest part of the human brain, is involved with its more complex functions. Motor and sensory nerve fibres from each hemisphere cross over in the medulla to control the opposite side of the body.; brain on britannica.com