“Brain Plasticity” Kilgard talk Monday 12/19/16 Bousfield Rm 160, 3-4pm

This talk on learning and brain plasticity may be of interest to you:

Dear Colleagues:

We are most fortunate to have Mike Kilgard visiting next week to speak on Monday at 3pm. Mike Kilgard studied with Mike Merzenich who’s middle name is “brain plasticity” and who’s work fills many textbooks on the topic of use dependent changes in the brain and behavior. Mike has many studies demonstrating how cortical neurons change with learning and with brain stimulation. He has recently developed a method for stimulating the vagus nerve to facilitate learning and brain plasticity. He and his team are now beta testing this approach in humans. He will talk about his neural plasticity research and some of the applications they are developing. This is a rare and exciting opportunity! I hope you can come and pass it on!

-Heather Read, Dept. Psychological Sciences

Date: Monday Dec 19th, 2016
Place: Bousfield Building, Room 160
Time: 3-4pm,
Title of talk, “Directing Neural Plasticity to Understand and Treat Neurological Disease”.
Here is his lab webpage (http://www.utdallas.edu/~kilgard/cv.html)

www.utdallas.edu
Michael P. Kilgard, University of Texas at Dallas. Cognition and Neuroscience Program School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences