Gittis awarded grant...
Neuroscientist Aryn Gittis, an associate professor of biological sciences in the Mellon College of Science and member of the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute and the CNBC, ha
This center leverages the strengths of Carnegie Mellon in cognitive and computational neuroscience and those of the University of Pittsburgh in basic and clinical neuroscience to support a coordinated cross-university research and educational program of international stature.
CNBC Alumni Lecturer...
Former CNBC and CMU graduate student, Matthew Botvinick (2001) will be giving a talk on Thursday titled, “A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning
Runyan Awarded Innov...
Caroline Runyan, an assistant Professor in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the CNBC, has been awarded an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Accordin
Events
Dec
11
Wed
Dr. Shushruth from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Columbia University will be giving his seminar, “Building Macaque Models of Human Cognitive Impairments” on Wednesday, December 11th at 9:30 AM in A219B Langley Hall, University of Pittsburgh campus.
Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research and
University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute
Presents a Special Seminar:
“A neural circuit that suppresses pain”
Nicholas Betley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday
December 11th, 2019
4:00 – 5:00pm
Conference Room 1495 BST
Dec
12
Thu
Rob Reinhart
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Boston University
Synchronizing brain rhythms rescues working memory in older people
Working memory is a set of operations that support the temporary retention of behaviorally significant information and is essential for human cognition. Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies find robust linear decline in working memory across the adult lifespan, contributing to age-related functional impairments. An enduring goal of neuroscience is to understand the neurobiology of working memory and its decline with advancing age. In this talk, I will present new research investigating the large-scale neurophysiology of working memory maintenance that distinguishes younger (18-30 years) from older people (60-76 years). I will focus on rhythmic neural coding schemes grounded in systems neuroscience for how brains compute and communicate information across different temporal and spatial scales during cognition. Further, I will describe how we have developed individually customized, noninvasive neuromodulation methods for augmenting components of rhythmic electrophysiology and rapidly improving working memory performance in older adults. Drug-free noninvasive neuroscience interventions for improving memory in physiological aging and clinical populations are implicated.
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