From: NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series Announcements
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Subject: NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series: May 16, 2011
You are invited to attend the NIH Neuroscience Series lecture on Monday, May
16, 2011 at noon in the Lipsett Amphitheater of the NIH Clinical Center, 10
Center Drive, Bethesda, MD.
LARRY SWANSON, PH.D., Professor of Biological Sciences, University of
Southern California, will present the seminar on "Nucleus accumbens 'hedonic
hot spot': A new strategy for unraveling its neural circuitry"
The Swanson lab is interested in the organization of neural networks that
control motivated behavior in mammals. Specifically, research in Swanson’s
lab has examined hypothalamic organization, has clarified the organization
and neurotransmitter specificity of brainstem reflex inputs to the
hypothalamus, and has addressing cerebral hemisphere inputs to the
hypothalamus that mediate the voluntary control of motivated behaviors
common to all animals (ingestive, reproductive, and defensive). More
recently, Swanson's group has characterized functionally relevant changes in
gene expression patterns in the brain. The approach is mostly structural,
and to display and model results he is developing computer graphics and
database approaches.
Selected Publications:
Swanson LW, Bota M. (2010) Foundational model of structural connectivity in
the nervous system with a schema for wiring diagrams, connectome, and basic
plan architecture. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 107: 20610-7.
Dong HW, Swanson LW, Chen L, Fanselow MS, Toga AW. (2009) Genomic-anatomic
evidence for distinct functional domains in hippocampal field CA1. Proc Natl
Acad Sci U S A., 106: 11794-9.
Motta SC, Goto M, Gouveia FV, Baldo MV, Canteras NS, Swanson LW. (2009)
Dissecting the brain's fear system reveals the hypothalamus is critical for
responding in subordinate conspecific intruders. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.,
106: 4870-5.
Petrovich GD, Canteras NS, Swanson LW. (2001) Combinatorial amygdalar inputs
to hippocampal domains and hypothalamic behavior systems. Brain Res Brain
Res Rev., 38: 247-89. Review.
Swanson LW. (2000) Cerebral hemisphere regulation of motivated behavior.
Brain Res., 886: 113-164. Review.
For more information see our website - http://neuroseries.info.nih.gov
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