Upcoming Events

Friday, October 9, 2015, 12-1:00 PM, Davis Auditorium, UVM Medical Center Campus

Neuroscience Grand Rounds

“Listening” and “talking” to Neurons:  Clinical implications of glial dysregulation of pain, opioid actions, and drugs of abuse Moving from Concept to Clinical Trials"

Linda Watkins, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience and Center for Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Friday, October 9, 2015 , 2:30 – 3:30 PM, Davis Auditorium, UVM Medical Center Campus

Special Guest Lecture Sponsored by The Neuroscience Behavior and Health Initiative &
The Vermont Center on Behavior and Health

“Behavioral Control Blunts Reactions to Contemporaneous & Future Adverse Events: Medial Prefrontal Cortex Plasticity & a Corticostriatal Network”

Steven F. Maier, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Psycholo gy and Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder

Over several decades, Steven Maier, Ph.D., has explored the variables that help determine the impact of stressful events on the brain and behavior. Recently, Dr. Maier has focused on mechanisms that promote stress resistance, and his work suggests experience with escapable/controllable stressors produces long-term changes that protect organisms against future stressors.

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