Herbert Jasper Lecture

The Neuro

Talk titled "Brain Processes for Evaluating & Learning from Rewards" by Patricia Janak

The Neuro. Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital

Patricia JanakPsychological &amp; Brain Sciences, Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins UniversityLocation: de Grandpre Communications Centre, 3801 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, CA

Brain Processes for Evaluating &amp; Learning from RewardsAbstract: The experience of a reward, such as the ingestion of food, is accompanied by dynamic patterns of neuronal activity across many brain regions. For example, reward ingestion is often accompanied by brief increases in spike activity by dopamine neurons, amygdala neurons, and neurons in the basal ganglia. I will discuss studies that illustrate different approaches to understanding the behavioral functions of this reward-elicited activity, with a focus on reward signals that promote reward-seeking behavior.Bio: Patricia Janak is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine. Dr. Janak studies neural processes of reward learning and decision making, both under normal conditions and in animal models relevant to substance use disorders. Dr. Janak earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health. From 1999 to 2014, Dr. Janak was faculty at the University of California, San Francisco where she was the Howard J. Weinberger, M.D., Endowed Chair in Addiction Research at the University of California, San Francisco.The Neuro's Herbert Jasper Lecture was established in 1989. Dr. Jasper, who passed away in 1999, worked together with Wilder Penfield at The Neuro during his early and very seminal years (1937-1964) and remained associated with the Institute for the remainder of his career and life in Montreal. This lectureship, which is focused like the work of Jasper upon Neurophysiology was instituted in his honor.* A cocktail reception will follow

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