Year: 2013

Worth Crowing About

By Robert Perkins USC Dornsife’s Jennifer Achiro, a neuroscience doctoral student in Sarah Bottjer’s laboratory, is first author on a songbird study that could lead to better treatment of language disorders in children. USC Dornsife scientists have discovered a population of neurons in the brains of juvenile songbirds that are necessary for allowing the birds…Continue Reading Worth Crowing About

A computer simulation displaying a map of sensory space within the brain. While maps of sensory space are ubiquitous in the brain, computer simulations can be used to study the map formation problem. In the figure, color indicates the orientation turning preference of each neuron; gray lines highlight the distortion between the physical neuron locations of the brain surface and the location of the cell’s preferred stimulus in the visual field (colored dot). Figure provided by Rishabh Jain. (Mel Lab)

…Continue Reading A computer simulation displaying a map of sensory space within the brain. While maps of sensory space are ubiquitous in the brain, computer simulations can be used to study the map formation problem. In the figure, color indicates the orientation turning preference of each neuron; gray lines highlight the distortion between the physical neuron locations of the brain surface and the location of the cell’s preferred stimulus in the visual field (colored dot). Figure provided by Rishabh Jain. (Mel Lab)

USC sponsers Young Researchers Program

The USC Young Researchers Program enables those typically underrepresented within the scientific community access to research. Through laboratory exposure and group presentations on research, this program stimulates a passion for science in both its young participants and USC mentors. The USC Neuroscience Graduate Program is a proud sponsor of the Young Researchers Program and is…Continue Reading USC sponsers Young Researchers Program

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, assistant professor of psychology at USC Dornsife’s Brain and Creativity Institute, is particularly interested in social emotions that promote learning, motivation and resilience, such as compassion, admiration and inspiration. Photo by Steve Cohn.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, assistant professor of psychology at USC Dornsife’s Brain and Creativity Institute, is particularly interested in social emotions that promote learning, motivation and resilience, such as compassion, admiration and inspiration. Photo by Steve Cohn….Continue Reading Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, assistant professor of psychology at USC Dornsife’s Brain and Creativity Institute, is particularly interested in social emotions that promote learning, motivation and resilience, such as compassion, admiration and inspiration. Photo by Steve Cohn.

Functional activation of dorsal striatum (d-CPu) and rostral secondary motor cortex (rostral M2) are attenuated after dopaminergic deafferentation of the d-CPu and are augmented by 4 weeks of exercise training (ET). (Holschneider Lab)

Functional activation of dorsal striatum (d-CPu) and rostral secondary motor cortex (rostral M2) are attenuated after dopaminergic deafferentation of the d-CPu and are augmented by 4 weeks of exercise training (ET). (Holschneider Lab)…Continue Reading Functional activation of dorsal striatum (d-CPu) and rostral secondary motor cortex (rostral M2) are attenuated after dopaminergic deafferentation of the d-CPu and are augmented by 4 weeks of exercise training (ET). (Holschneider Lab)

xE15 Motor Neuron Development: The Shh signaling pathway functions in a time- and concentration-dependent manner to specify ventral neural cell types within the developing central nervous system. (McMahon Lab)

E15 Motor Neuron Development: The Shh signaling pathway functions in a time- and concentration-dependent manner to specify ventral neural cell types within the developing central nervous system. (McMahon Lab)
…Continue Reading xE15 Motor Neuron Development: The Shh signaling pathway functions in a time- and concentration-dependent manner to specify ventral neural cell types within the developing central nervous system. (McMahon Lab)

Overview

Students and faculty in the USC Neuroscience Graduate Program come from a variety of academic backgrounds to study questions spanning the entire spectrum of modern neuroscience research. Key questions include: how do molecules work together in time and space to build functioning nerve cells? how do individual neurons and their interconnections lead to the emergent…Continue Reading Overview

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