BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:VideoCast CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neural mechanism of emotional and social behaviour DTSTART:20181029T160000Z DTEND:20181029T170000Z DTSTAMP:20181029T205800Z UID:Videocast--28077 LOCATION:https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=28077 DESCRIPTION:Hailan Hu\, Ph.D.\, Zhejiang University School of Medicine\nNIH Neuroscience Series Seminar\n\nThe ability to experience emotions makes life colorful\, and greatly affects our thinking and behavior. Research in Dr. Hu’s lab aims to understand how emotional and social behaviors are encoded in the brain with a focus on the neural circuitry underlying depression and dominance hierarchy. The key questions they are addressing are: How are different emotional states represented in the brain? What and where molecular changes occur when emotion regulation goes awry in diseases such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder? How does dominance hierarchy arise form interplay between activity of specific neural circuits and social experience of animals? Using combinatorial techniques including imaging\, electrophysiology\, molecular biology and optogenetics\, they hope to visualize the neural circuits that are activated during the behavior of interest\; elucidate the function of specific neural circuits and cell groups in behavior\; and establish the causal relationship between the activity of neural circuits and corresponding behavioral output. They hope these studies will provide new insights into how emotions shape and color our life and shed new light on treating emotional disorders.\n\nFor more information go to 'https://neuroscience.nih.gov/neuroseries/Home.aspx'>https://neuroscience.nih.gov/neuroseries/Home.aspx X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n
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