Join us for the Irvine Center for Addiction Neuroscience (ICAN) Symposium on October 14th, 2019. Over a billion individuals have substance use disorders across the world .ICAN aims to reduce substance use disorders through the promotion and development of sustained translational addiction research.

Dr. Kendall Lee, Professor and Director at the Neural Engineering Laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic, will present 'Neural Engineering: Next Generation of Electroceuticals.'

“Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome and familial Alzheimer's disease: Unique opportunities to understand and prevent a devastating disease” Juan Fortea, M.D., Ph.D. Alzheimer Down Unit Director Hospital of Sant Pau and Catalan Foundation for Down Syndrome

Judith F. Kroll Distinguished Professor Department of Language Science University of California, Irvine Monday, October 28, 2019 12:00 – 1:15 pm, Education 2010

Despite the rich literature on the consequences of selective attention to behavior and to neural responses, as well as a wealth of models of competitive selection, little is known about the circuit mechanisms by which the brain actually selects the highest priority stimulus as the next target of spatial attention. Following a first principles approach…

Dr. Dulcis is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD. He is a faculty member of the Neurosciences graduate program and the Center for Circadian Biology at UCSD. He received his B.S. from University of Cagliari  (Italy) double majoring in Physiology and Biology. While earning his Ph.D. from University of Arizona in Neuroscience, he illustrated…

Interneurons and the control of memory precision Inhibitory interneurons govern the sparse activation of principal cells that permits appropriate behaviors, and they are activated during specific memory processes. Our recent…