News: Brain Rhythms Lab

C T Dickson featured on CTV's Medical Watch regarding the similarities between urethane anaesthesia and natural sleep. See print article in  U of A Express News.

PLoS ONE features Brain Rhythms lab publication in comment and blog.

C T Dickson awarded a seven year Senior Scholar award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Project title: "Coordination of Sleep-like Forebrain Rhythms in Anaesthesia."

Purchase of a multichannel Neuralynx amplification and acquisition system with CFI funds. This will give us the ability to make high density multichannel recordings (field and single unit) in freely behaving conditions.

Purchase of a dedicated in vitro brain slice rig with CFI funds. This will give us the ability to make intracellular and field recordings in small brain networks.

Upcoming events:

Canadian Association for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Montreal QC, May 26-28, 2008 http://www.can-acn.org/Pub/Pub_Front.asp

Past events:

Royce Conference, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta. March 7, 2008

Canadian Spring Conference on Behaviour and Brain, Fernie, British Columbia, Canada. February 21 - 23, 2008

C T Dickson: Seminar at the Douglas Research Hospital (McGill University), Dec 3 2007

C T Dickson: Seminar at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (University of Calgary), Oct 26 2007. http://www.hbi.ucalgary.ca/research/sections.php?sid=2&cid=11

Fernando Fernandez (Dept. Biomed. Engineering, Boston University) visits Brain Rhythms Lab. Centre for Neuroscience Seminar: “Modulation of intrinsic theta oscillations by background synaptic conductance fluctuations in entorhinal cortical stellate cells”.

HYRS student Nicole Gervais gives poster on her summer research in the Brain Rhythms lab: “External temperature stimuli and alternating brain states”

Jesse Jackson (Dept Psychol, University of Calgary - not the Right Reverend) visits Brain Rhythms Lab.

Brian Bland (Dept. Psychol. University of Calgary) visits Brain Rhythms Lab. Centre for Neuroscience Seminar: “Mechanisms and significance of median raphe-induced hippocampal desynchronization”

Brain Rhythms lab affiliated with the Department of Physiology. C T Dickson obtains cross-appointment. http://www.physiology.ualberta.ca/

C T Dickson interviewed for “Quirks and Quarks” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s national science program. 2006 Annual Road Show, Edmonton June 1, 2006 (program aired June 3, 2006). Check out the podcast: http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/05-06/jun03.html