Salman Qasim, Ph.D. at the CBS Forum, 18 June 2024
On 18 June 2024, Rei hosts Salman Qasim, Ph.D. at the CBS Forum. Learn more about our guest and his talk below.
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation: Gu/Saez Labs, Center for Computational Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Links: Dr. Qasim's Webpage
Date and Time: 18 June 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 JST
This will be held in-person and online. (Online registration here)
Abstract:
Humans forget a majority of what we experience. Why, then, do certain memories persist? Answering this question at a mechanistic level is critical to understanding memory overall, and to devising therapeutic approaches for maladaptive memory biases in psychiatric disorders. I will present my research utilizing direct, intracranial brain recordings in human neurosurgical patients performing memory tasks involving the influence of high-priority information (relating to goals, emotions, and rewards). I will draw connections between the neural biomarkers for memory across these different cognitive processes, at both micro- and meso-scales, and will present hypotheses for how these biomarkers may be causally modulated to downregulate maladaptive memories. By using in-vivo electrophysiology to shine a light on specific neural computations in memory, this work will provide a bridge between research into animal behavior, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical translation.
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