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Air date:	Monday, May 16, 2016, 12:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 554 (36 Live, 518 On-demand)
Category:	Neuroscience
Runtime:	01:10:14
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Description:	NIH Neuroscience Series Seminar Dr. Preuss earned his doctorate in biological anthropology from Yale University and completed his postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University. He investigates the evolutionary specializations of the human brain; identifying these specializations is critical for understanding how the human brain supports our unique cognitive abilities and why humans are particularly vulnerable to neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Preuss lab addresses questions by comparing human brains to those of chimpanzees — the animals to which humans are most closely related — and to other nonhuman primates. Within this basic comparative framework, they employ multiple investigative methodologies to identify human specializations at multiple levels of organization: genomic and molecular biological techniques to identify evolutionary changes in gene and protein expression, histological techniques to localize expression changes to specify cell types and cell compartments, and neuroimaging techniques to identify evolutionary changes in connectivity and cerebral morphology.

NLM Title:	What animal models do to us / Todd Preuss.
Author:	Preuss, Todd. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): NIH Neuroscience Series Seminar Dr. Preuss earned his doctorate in biological anthropology from Yale University and completed his postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University. He investigates the evolutionary specializations of the human brain; identifying these specializations is critical for understanding how the human brain supports our unique cognitive abilities and why humans are particularly vulnerable to neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Preuss lab addresses questions by comparing human brains to those of chimpanzees -- the animals to which humans are most closely related -- and to other nonhuman primates. Within this basic comparative framework, they employ multiple investigative methodologies to identify human specializations at multiple levels of organization: genomic and molecular biological techniques to identify evolutionary changes in gene and protein expression, histological techniques to localize expression changes to specify cell types and cell compartments, and neuroimaging techniques to identify evolutionary changes in connectivity and cerebral morphology.
Subjects:	Brain Models, Animal Models, Neurological Pan troglodytes Rodentia
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WL 20
NLM ID:	101684400
CIT Live ID:	17982
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=17982

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