Welcome to the SpikeClub

We're doing something different this year. We are going to have the faculty at Yale present papers that are classics in their fields, and discuss the impact that these papers have had since their publication. In the past, we have discussed the recording and analysis of spike train and field potential data and issues in neural coding.

If you want to sign up, email Eyal Kimchi (eyal dot kimchi at yale dot edu)


Schedule & Papers

June 13, 2005
Aghajanian GK, Foote WE, Sheard MH.
Lysergic acid diethylamide: sensitive neuronal units in the midbrain raphe.
Science. 1968 Aug 16;161(842):706-8.
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Liu RJ, Lambe EK, Aghajanian GK.
Somatodendritic autoreceptor regulation of serotonergic neurons: dependence on L-tryptophan and tryptophan hydroxylase-activating kinases.
Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Feb;21(4):945-58.
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Presented by George Aghajanian
12:00 PM, JB Pierce Library

May 23, 2005
J. H. van Hateren R. Kern G. Schwerdtfeger and M. Egelhaaf
Function and coding in the blowfly H1 neuron during naturalistic optic flow.
J Neurosci. 2005 Apr 27;25(17):4343-52.
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Presented by Mike Nitabach
12:00 PM, JB Pierce Library

Dec 16, 2004
Seigel MS and Isacoff EY
A Genetically Encoded Optical Probe of Membrane Voltage. Neuron 1997
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Presented by Lawrence Cohen
12:00 PM, JB Pierce Library

Nov 15, 2004
Woolf, CJ
Evidence for a central component of post injury pain hypersensitivity. Nature 1983.
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Ji, Kohno, Moore and Woolf
Central sensitization and LTP: do pain and memory share similar mechanims?
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Presented by Robert Lamotte
12:00 PM, JB Pierce Library

Sept 13, 2004
Tanji J, Evarts EV.
Anticipatory activity of motor cortex neurons in relation to direction of an intended movement. J Neurophysiol. 1976 Sep;39(5):1062-8.
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Presented by Mark Laubach Get Presentation
12:00 PM, JB Pierce Library



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