Brain

Huizhong Tao, Ph.D.
2024-06-11 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) 1200, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
Hypothalamic control of mood/emotion
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping is hosting a seminar by Dr. Huizhong Tao, professor of physiology and neuroscience at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

Johnathan Tang, Ph.D.
2024-06-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom, 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, 92697, United States
Integrative approaches to tackling experience-dependent outcomes
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping is hosting a seminar by Dr. Johnathan Tang, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington.

Catherine Hartley, Ph.D.
2024-06-18 16:00 - 17:00 | CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
CNLM Colloquium Series
Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Conte Center@UCI for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Catherine Hartley, associate professor of psychology at New York University. This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.
Interactive development of reinforcement learning and episodic memory

Highlighting the fundamentally interactive nature of learning and memory, recent studies in adults have demonstrated that the same quantitative learning signals that inform value computation during reinforcement learning also modulate how information is prioritized and represented in episodic memory. While both reinforcement learning and episodic memory processes exhibit qualitative shifts from childhood to adulthood, how the interactions between these neurocognitive systems might change over development remains virtually unexplored. In this talk, I will present studies that leverage computational modeling to characterize age-related shifts in how reinforcement learning computations influence the content and granularity of memory, and how memory, in turn, informs value-based choices. I will discuss how these processes may support adaptive behavior at different developmental stages.

Dorote Lucci, Ph.D.
2024-07-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom, 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, 92697, United States
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Dorote Lucci, Chair of the Global Conference on Advancing Mental Health.
Exploring the Intersection of AI, Neuroscience, and Transformative Learning: A Whole-Person Perspective from Transpersonal Psychology

UCI Conte Center Seminar Series with Debra Bangasser, PhD
2024-07-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Plumwood/Showa Denko Lecture Hall
The UCI Conte Center Seminar Series will host guest speaker Dr. Debra Bangasser, Associate Director at the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Georgia State University. Pastries and coffee will be provided.
Early resource scarcity causes lasting changes in cognition and motivated behavior

Niels Niethard PhD
2024-08-13 15:30 - 17:00 | SSPA 2112, Social Science Plaza A (SSPA) Room 2112, Irvine, CA, 92697-3800, United States
The Department of Cognitive Sciences will host guest speaker, Dr. Niels Niethard, from University of Tubingen
Sleep oscillations and synaptic plasticity: A circuit perspective

35th Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference
2024-09-06 08:00 - 15:15 | Hilton Irvine and Virtual, 18800 MacArthur Blvd, Irvine, CA, 92612, United States
Register for the 35th Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference, Advances in Dementia Care, hosted by the UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) in partnership with Alzheimer’s Orange County and Alzheimer’s Association Orange County. This year the conference will examine the important advances being made in the diagnosis, treatment, and care for people living with dementia. Topics will include genetic testing, blood tests, disease modifying therapies, treatments for behavioral symptoms, equity and access, the rise of pseudomedicine, and care navigator programs.

Jing Zhang, PhD
2024-09-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom, 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, 92697, United States
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Jing Zhang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.

Benjamin Gunn, PhD
2024-09-19 10:30 - 11:30 | Plumwood House, 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
The Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology seminar will host guest speaker Dr. Benjamin Gunn, Project Scientist at University of California, Irvine
An analysis of the primary hippocampal circuit implications and applications
Despite intense interest in hippocampal contributions to behavior, surprisingly little is known about how cortical signals are processed across even the basic multi-stage circuit. Here, I will describe the first input/output relationship for the primary hippocampal circuit. Results identify a novel role for recurrent CA3 activity in driving throughput that challenges the notion of the tri-synaptic circuit, while the presence of low pass filters dictates the nature of effective input frequencies and patterns. Although the simplest circuit operation, signal throughput is critical for the execution of more complex processes required for hippocampus-dependent memory processing — how these findings place constraints upon circuit performance and the potential for different operational states will be discussed. These findings open the way to novel analyses of how the hippocampus and its contributions to behavior may be influenced in physiological and pathophysiological states. In this regard, I will provide evidence for alterations in hippocampal circuit function following single-housing that are associated with deficits in cognitive function and other behaviors associated with depression.

Wei-Chung Lee, PhD
2024-09-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom, 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, 92697, United States
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Wei-Chung Lee, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard University.
“Circuit Motifs of Sensorimotor Integration”

Neuronal circuits transform sensory information into behavior. I will present our recent work to understand the neuronal circuit basis of decision making and motor control. First, we studied synaptic connectivity underlying choice-selective activity in the mouse posterior parietal cortex (PPC) during a perceptual decision-making task. Using a combination of virtual-reality behavior, two-photon calcium imaging, connectomics, and circuit modeling, we analyzed how synaptic connections between PPC neurons relate to their function. Our results provide evidence for how synaptic connectivity in cortical circuits supports a learned decision-making task. Second, we examined the wiring logic of premotor circuits controlling the Drosophila leg and wing. Using connectomics, we found that premotor networks organize into modules linking motor neurons innervating muscles with related functions. By comparing the architectures of leg and wing motor control systems within the same animal, we identified common principles of premotor network organization and specialized features reflecting the biomechanical constraints and evolutionary origins of these motor control systems.

2024 Second Annual Symposium for the Center for Neurotherapeutics
2024-10-04 08:00 - 18:00 | Samueli Integrative Health Institute Sue Gross Auditorium, 856 Health Sciences Quad, Irvine, 92697, United States
The purpose of the Symposium will be to familiarize attendees with the UCI Center for
Neurotherapeutics and introduce attendees to the exciting translational
neuroscience research happening right on our campus and in labs across the country. We
hope that attendees will:

Learn about the vision that drives us at the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics and our
ongoing effort to advance drug development on campus.
Become acquainted with cutting-edge approaches being applied to develop innovative
models and novel therapeutic solutions for neurological diseases. Lecture topics will
include drug discovery and high-throughput screening methods to identify rational
drug targets. Experts from diverse disciplines will explain how they are tackling the
challenge of delivering small molecules and biological agents across the blood-brain
barrier.
Appreciate the many opportunities for cross-disciplinary interaction and collaboration
in this field. Our number one core value at the UCI Center for Neurotherapeutics is to
promote collaboration across campus, especially between faculty in the physical
sciences and the biological sciences. We believe that only by combining such multi-
disciplinary expertise and diverse perspectives will it be possible to unlock new
avenues of discovery and accelerate progress toward developing meaningful solutions
for therapy development.

Our exceptional line-up of guest speakers and UCI faculty speakers include:

Anabella Villalobos (Biogen); Neurological/Rare Disease Therapies
Donna Huryn (University of Pennsylvania); Academic Drug Discovery Challenges
Ethan Lippmann (Vanderbilt); siRNA Brain Delivery via Albumin
Su Guo (UC San Francisco); GPCR Targeting in Parkinson’s
Hang Lu (Georgia Tech); Microtechnology & AI in Drug Screening
Errol Arkilic (UC Irvine); Beall Applied Innovation
Leslie Thompson (UC Irvine); Huntington’s Disease Treatment Advances
Jennifer Prescher (UC Irvine); Nature-Inspired Imaging Tools
Christopher Hughes (UC Irvine); Blood-Brain Barrier Neurovascular Model
Melanie Cocco (UC Irvine); Voxelotor for Red Blood Cell Modulation

Whether you are a student, postdoctoral trainee, faculty member, or staff member, we
encourage you to join us, so please mark your calendars!
Registration is free!
Please register by Friday, September 27, 2024.

Masakazu Agetsuma, Ph.D.
2024-10-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Plumwood House Room 166, 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, 92697-3800, United States
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Masakazu Agetsuma, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan
“Activity-dependent organization of prefrontal hub-networks for associative learning and signal transformation”
Associative learning is crucial for adapting to environmental changes. Interactions among neuronal populations involving the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) in rodents are proposed to regulate associative memory. Although neural network remodeling is generally believed to underlie learning and memory, how this process occurs to store and process associative memory remains one of the most critical open questions in the field. To tackle this question, we developed a pipeline for longitudinal two-photon imaging and mathematical dissection of neural population activities in mouse dmPFC during fear-conditioning procedures, enabling us to detect learning-dependent changes in the dmPFC information coding and network topology. After confirming that the dmPFC contributes to the expression of the conditioned responses (CR) by chemogenetic silencing, we recorded neural population activities and analyzed them by regularized regression methods and graphical modeling. We found that fear conditioning drove dmPFC reorganization to generate a neuronal ensemble encoding CR, which was characterized by enhanced internal coactivity and functional connectivity. Importantly, neurons strongly responding to unconditioned stimuli during fear conditioning subsequently became hubs of this novel network and revealed enhanced association with conditioned stimuli (CS) specifically in the CR ensemble, which may work as an information-processing neural network implementing CS-triggered CR. Altogether, we demonstrate learning-dependent dynamic modulation of population coding structured on the activity-dependent formation of the hub network within the dmPFC. features reflecting the biomechanical constraints and evolutionary origins of these motor control systems.”

Vahid Yaghmai, MD, MS, FSAR
2024-10-15 10:00 - 11:00 | Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom, 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, 92697, United States
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Vahid Yaghmai, Professor and Chair in the Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
“Medical Imaging Research: From Bench to Bedside”

Current areas of basic and clinical research in Radiological Sciences department will be highlighted. An overview of resources in the preclinical and clinical settings will be provided. Clinical examples that highlight the state-of-the-art medical imaging technology available in Radiological Sciences will also be discussed.

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D.
2024-10-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Irvine Barclay Theater, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine, CA, 92612, United States
The McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory will host guest speaker Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University.
Three Lessons About the Brain

Ever wonder how your brain really works? Join us for the 3rd Annual McGaugh-Gerard Lecture on Learning and Memory by Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, an author and expert in psychology and neuroscience, as she breaks down three key ideas about the brain’s inner workings. In this talk, you’ll learn:

How your brain’s most important job is keeping your body running smoothly.
How your brain is constantly predicting what will happen next rather than reacting to the world.
How feeling and thinking and even seeing follow from your brain’s plan for action; your brain prepares your behavior first and creates your lived experience in the process.

Dr. Barrett will show how these brain functions affect how you feel, how you think, and what you do.

Jack Gallant, Ph.D.
2024-10-18 08:30 - 10:00 | Sue Gross Auditorium, 854 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, 92617, United States
UCI Center for Translational Vision Research will host guest speaker Dr. Jack Gallant, a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Co-director of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC), from the University of California, Berkeley
A biologically plausible hierarchical convolutional energy model explains V4 responses during natural vision

Daniele Canzio, PhD
2024-10-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom, 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, 92697, United States
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Daniele Canzio, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco.
How do neurons recognize self from non-self?
My lab investigates how neurons distinguish self from non-self, a process also known as neural self-avoidance. This process is critical for the establishment of neural wiring patterns during development. We are particularly interested in the role of genome architecture and epigenetic gene silencing in the generation of the transcriptional diversity underlying the process of neural self-avoidance in the mammalian brain.

Marcus Holmes, Ph.D.
2024-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 | CNLM Herklotz Conference Center and Virtually via Zoom
UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, UCI Brain, and UCI Conte Center will host guest speaker Dr. Marcus Holmes, Professor of Government, Chair of the Department of Government, Director of the Political Psychology and International Relations Lab, and Co-Director of the Social Science Research Methods Center from The College of William and Mary.
The Social Neuroscience Behind Face-to-Face Diplomacy?

Albert La Spada, M.D., Ph.D.
2024-10-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Crystal Cove Auditorium at the UCI Student Center, 4113 Pereira Dr, Irvine, CA, 92697-3800, United States
The Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences will host guest speaker Albert La Spada, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of Pathology, from the University of California, Irvine, for the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture.
Defining the Mechanistic Basis of Neurodegenerative Proteinopathy: A 35 Year Genetic Odyssey

Yannick Fotio, PharmD, Ph.D.
2024-10-24 10:30 - 11:30 | Plumwood House Room 166, 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, 92697-3800, United States
The Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology will host Yannick Fotio, PharmD, Ph.D. a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Piomelli’s lab from the University of California, Irvine.
Metabolic reprogramming drives pain chronification after tissue damage

Perspectives on Political Violence
2024-10-25 10:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
The Symposium of the UCI Center for Neuropolitics will address political violence in all its complexities. The Symposium will use the tools of neuroscience, political science, history and psychology to comprehensively analyze the disturbing development and potential emergence in American life. The Symposium includes the 2024 Jerrold Post Lecture on Neuropolitics, to be given by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

Yang Yang, PhD
2024-10-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Plumwood House, 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
UCI Epilepsy Research Center will host guest speaker Dr. Yang Yang, Jack and Barbara McCoy Associate Professor from Purdue University, for their EpiCenter Seminar.
“SCN2A related autism and epilepsy: from mouse and hiPSC models to genetic medicine”

Manuella Oliveira Yassa, Ph.D. & Caroline Montojo, Ph.D.
2024-10-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual via Zoom, CA
The Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory (CNLM) will host guest speakers Dr. Manuella Oliveira Yassa, Director of Outreach and Education at the CNLM, and Dr. Caroline Montojo, President & CEO of the Dana Foundation.
Join us to learn more about the CONNECT series. This session will include an opportunity to network.

Jeffrey Krichmar, Ph.D.
2024-11-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Hybrid Event (This event will be held virtually via Zoom and In-Person in the Herkltoz Conference Room), 300 Qureshey Research Lab Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. Jeffrey Krichmar, Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.

Biologically inspired robot navigation
We take inspiration from recent neurophysiological findings to create a flexible navigation system for mobile robots. In the first part of my talk, I will present a neuromorphic path planning algorithm inspired by place cell behavior and experience-dependent plasticity. Our navigation system utilizes a spiking neural network wavefront planner and E-prop learning to concurrently map and plan paths in large, complex environments. We incorporate a novel method for mapping which, when combined with the spiking wavefront planner, allows for adaptive planning by selectively considering combining costs. The learning is continuous and does not require retraining due to changes in the environment. The system is tested on a mobile robot platform in an outdoor environment with obstacles and varying terrain. On real and simulated paths, our system outperforms state-of-the-art robot path planners. The spiking wavefront planner is compatible with neuromorphic hardware and could be used for applications requiring low size weight and power. In the second part of my talk, I will discuss how we seamlessly move between global perspectives and first-person perspectives and why this is important for navigation, memory formation, and other cognitive tasks. To understand how a neural system might carry out these computations, we used variational autoencoders (VAEs) to reconstruct first-person perspectives from global map perspectives, and vice versa. Many latent variables in our model had similar responses to those seen in neuron recordings, including place cells, head direction tuning, and encoding distance to objects. These results could advance our understanding of how brain regions support viewpoint linkages and transformations. Currently, we are combining these two modeling approaches into a unified biologically inspired navigation system that can handle dynamic environments.

Ian Ballard, Ph.D.
2024-11-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1517, 214 Pereira Dr, Irvine, CA, 92617
The Department of Cognitive Sciences will host Dr. Ian Ballard, Assistant Professor of Psychology from the University of California, Riverside.
How learning sculpts goal-directed behavior
Goal-directed behavior requires the flexibility to update behavior in response to changing environmental contingencies. The neural systems supporting goal-directed behavior are often characterized as competing against a subcortical habit system. My research identifies cooperative interactions between these systems that support flexible decision-making. I will present a series of studies that draw on fMRI and PET neuroimaging, computational modeling, pharmacological probes in healthy human subjects, and collaborative research using neural recordings in nonhuman primates. The findings show that reward learning in the striatum facilitates the selection of beneficial goals, enabling context-dependent behavior. Furthermore, my findings show how the striatum enables flexibility by translating negative feedback into behavioral change. This research details how the brain’s phylogenetically ancient learning mechanisms powerfully shape high-order cognition.

Anthony Wagner, PhD
2024-11-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Plumwood House Room 166, 1003 Health Sciences Rd, Irvine, CA 92617, Irvine, CA, 92697-3800, United States
The Medical Scientist Training Program will host Dr. Anthony Wagner, world-renowned professor from Stanford University recognized for his groundbreaking work on the mechanisms of cognitive control, episodic memory, and the interplay between these processes.
Mechanisms of Memory Variability in Human Aging

Mark Wagner, PhD
2024-11-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) and Virtually Via Zoom, 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, 92697, United States
The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will host guest speaker Dr. Mark Wagner, Stadtman Investigator at NIH/NINDS.
Cerebellar computations across motor and cognitive behaviors
The cerebellum contains most of the brain’s neurons and interconnects with the entire neocortex, forming a basic neuroanatomical motif. With evolution, the cerebellum expanded by orders of magnitude but mainly by replicating the same crystalline microcircuit. In humans, movement, learning, attention, working memory, and language all engage cerebellar networks. Is there a single “cerebellar computation” useful for all behaviors, or do new dynamics emerge from higher brain function? We aim to understand the basic computations implemented in cerebellar circuits, their broad utility across the neocortex, and how they flexibly contribute to many disparate behaviors. Via recordings from cerebellar granule cells in animals executing rewarded actions, we showed that numerous granule cells anticipated reward delivery (Wagner et al Nature 2017). By developing simultaneous neocortex-cerebellum imaging, we found that characteristically neocortical neural activity develops in tandem with similar cerebellar activity patterns during skill learning (Wagner et al Cell 2019). We also broadened understanding of cerebellar climbing fibers, demonstrating that they can become increasingly synchronized during skilled actions as animals gain expertise (Wagner et al Cell 2021). Recently, via simultaneous imaging of cerebellar granule cells and climbing fibers, we found that seconds-long granule cell neural ramps enable the cerebellum to learn to track elapsed time until an expected rewarding outcome (Garcia-Garcia et al Neuron 2024). We are working to determine how: neocortical information is transformed into the cerebellum; cerebellar computation generalizes across behavioral contexts and reward modalities; and the cerebellum routes its output across many downstream circuits throughout the brain

J. Zoe Klemfuss, Ph.D.
2024-11-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Hybrid Event (This event will be held virtually via Zoom and In-Person in the Herkltoz Conference Room), 300 Qureshey Research Lab Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
Join the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) for a hybrid event featuring Dr. J. Zoe Klemfuss, Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.
This event will be held in-person in the Herklotz Conference Center and virtually via Zoom.

Children’s memory reports in legal contexts
Millions of US children are centrally involved in legal investigations each year. They may be questioned as suspected victims or witnesses or in other impactful legal proceedings like custody determinations. As one chilling example, over 3 million children are the subjects of child protective services disposition due to suspected maltreatment annually. In some of the most heinous crimes against children such as child sexual abuse, children’s statements may be the only available evidence. These crimes rarely have other witnesses and because disclosure is routinely delayed, physical evidence is rare as well. My colleagues and I have been examining ways we can help children to give accurate and detailed memory reports of their legally-relevant experiences. In this talk, I will focus on how we’ve been considering child, interviewer, and contextual factors as we examine 1) children’s reports of event time and sequence and 2) interviewer-child rapport and support, and their implications for children’s legal statements.

Greg Gage, Ph.D.
2024-11-13 09:00 - 10:00 | Virtual via Zoom, CA
The Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory (CNLM) will host guest speaker Dr. Greg Gage, CEO and Co-Founder of Backyard Brains, for their CONNECT Series.
Engaging Curiosity Through Hands-on Neuroscience
This talk will explore how to actively engage individuals in neuroscience before they fully grasp the underlying concepts, focusing on approaches to hands-on learning and community involvement. I will discuss Backyard Brains’ experience creating low-cost, open-source neuroscience tools that make neuroscience education accessible to students and the general public. Through live demonstrations and case studies, we’ll examine how these tools can spark curiosity, broaden participation, and support underrepresented groups in STEM, with a focus on fostering a hands-on approach before conceptual understanding is fully established.

Sara Mednick, Ph.D
2024-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1517, 214 Pereira Dr, Irvine, CA, 92617
The Department of Cognitive Sciences will host guest speaker Dr. Sara Mednick, professor at the University of California, Irvine
Brain mechanisms of sleep that sculpt our memories
Sleep is a daily period of deep rest that is important for proper functioning of the brain and body. Studies show that adequate sleep supports enhanced cognitive functions, including memory, creativity, attention, mood, and promotes healthy bodily functions, including physical stamina, metabolism and cardiac activity. Recent findings have demonstrated that sleep may be especially important for the transformation of new experiences into long-term memories, a process known as memory consolidation. My UC Irvine Sleep and Cognition (SaC) lab is interested in identifying basic neural mechanisms that are critical for memory consolidation so that we can 1) understand the function of sleep, 2) reveal the processes of memory, 3) and develop interventions that boost sleep-dependent cognitive processes. In my talk, I will introduce the building blocks of sleep and their relation to cognitive processes, as well suggest that cognitive changes that occur across the lifespan may be mediated by changes in sleep. I hope to illustrate a dynamic relationship that exists between waking experiences and sleeping brain that facilitates the maintenance and enhancement of our cognitive health.

Psychedelics Through the Lens of Science, Treatment, and Policy
2024-11-18 08:00 - 18:00 | CNLM Herklotz Conference Center, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
Please join UC Irvine’s Center for Addiction Neuroscience (UCI CAN) for an all-day symposium entitled: “Psychedelics Through the Lens of Science, Treatment, and Policy“, to be held on Monday November 18 at Herklotz Auditorium of the UCI Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.
We will hear perspectives of academic researchers, psychiatrists, and policymakers from across North America, all discussing aspects of the recent resurgence of interest in psychedelic molecules, many of which have been known for millennia by indigenous cultures for their consciousness-altering and medicinal properties.
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion of psychedelic neuroscience, psychiatry, and policy with experts from: University of Calgary; UC Berkeley; UC Irvine; the National Institute on Drug Abuse; and the US Food & Drug Administration.
Pre-registration is required, it is free, and it comes with breakfast, lunch and reception, as well as brand new ICAN swag!
Capacity is limited for this in-person event, so don’t hesitate: REGISTER TODAY!
2024 Psychedelics Symposium Registration
