Title: Beyond Motivation and Reward Seeking: Ventral Pallidum Contributions to Negative Affective States Speaker: Doç.Dr. Güneş Ünal Date: 7 May, Thursday 16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: The ventral pallidum (VP) is a key basal forebrain structure classically implicated in motivation and reward, often described as a node […]
Read More Title: Blocking the RGMa–Neogenin Pathway Restores Vascular Integrity, Neuroregeneration, and Functional Recovery After CNS Injury Speaker: Dr. Alireza Shabanzadeh Date: 9 April, Thursday 16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: An attractive strategy for functional recovery following stroke is to neutralize factors involved in blood-vessel dysfunction. RGMa is upregulated in the blood of […]
Read More Title: Investigating Semantic Representation in the Brain via Nnaturalistic Neuroimaging Speaker: Dr.Emin Çelik Time: 26 March, Thursday, 16:30 Place: SC 106, ASBAM Abstract: How does a human brain represent meaning? How does it make sense of a complicated visual scene or understand a lengthy paragraph? In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the […]
Read More Speaker: Marion Silies Time: February 19, 2026,16:30 Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: Our research aims to understand how the nervous system performs behaviorally relevant computations. In the human brain, billions of neurons are connected via even more connections. To reduce this complexitiy we study the brain of […]
Read More Emine Eren Koçak Hacettepe University Date/Time: Thursday, 22 January 2026, 16:30 am Place: Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center Seminar Room (SC-106) Abstract: One of the most fundamental questions in psychiatry is why certain individuals develop mental disorders after exposure to stressors while others don’t. This talk explores the neurobiological basis of stress susceptibility. Dendritic […]
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