The UCL Neuroscience Society will be hosting the prestigious Brain Prize winner Péter Somogyi from Oxford University!

The presention will be on "Defining neuronal circuits in relational brain space and time".

Co-ordinated neuronal activity is intrinsically linked with behaviour and malfunction of neuronal coordination results in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Timing is crucial for neuronal integration including events lasting from milliseconds up to several seconds. Much of the neuronal activity is rhythmic in the brain, as rhythmicity facilitates local and global interactions and enables the representation of temporal sequences. They explore how distinct neuronal types contribute to behaviour, and how the network mechanisms governing neuronal activity relate to both normal and abnormal brain function. They hypothesise that temporal coordination of neuronal assemblies is regulated by a temporal redistribution of inhibition over principal cell subcellular domains.
They reveal how the firing patterns of different GABAergic, cholinergic and glutamatergic neurons relate to network oscillations during different behavioural states such as movement and sleep and how their connectivity to other cells can provide a mechanism for these underlying network oscillations.

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