Date Speaker/ Topic Readings
September 4th Orientation and Background
Sept 11th          Intro to Biological Psychology and Review
Fred  Helmstetter, UWM
Sept 18th  Role of the Hippocampus in Depression
Richard Deyo, Winona State University
Crespi

Jacobs

September 25th Neurobiology of "Simple" Associative Learning
Fred Helmstetter, UWM 
Cheng

Knight

October 2nd   Hippocampal memory without awareness
Tony Greene, UWM
Eichenbaum

Greene

October 9th   GABA-B receptor modulation of calcium currents in cultured hippocampal cells
Michelle Mynlieff, Marquette University
Mynlieff

Hogan

October 16th   

Neurobiology of learning, memory, and aging
Jim Moyer, UWM
Moyer 

Markram

October 23rd Homer proteins and cocaine mediated behavioral plasticity
M. Behnam Ghasemzadeh, Marquette University
Crespo

Ghasemzadeh

October 30th Your Brain on Drugs
Rob Risinger, Medical College of Wisconsin
Garavan

Li

November 6th Pre-Neuroscience poster/talk session
UWM Students and Faculty
Abstracts
November 13th Society of Neuroscience meeting (no class)
November 20th  Stress, Glucocorticoids and Cocaine Addiction
John Mantsch, Marquette University
Mantsch

Mantsch2

Mantsch3

Mantsch4

December 4th Exercise and Plasticity of Brain and Behavior
Rodney Swain, UWM
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