This seminar will be held in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia's Manhattanville campus (9th floor lecture hall). Columbia University's Intercampus Shuttle Service is the best way to travel between campuses.

How are visual perceptions merged with internal states to drive action selection? My talk will focus on recent findings exploring the role of specific thalamic circuits that integrate visual perceptions of threats with internal states, to drive action selection. In addition, I will describe the crucial role of structures used for "visually-evoked fear contagion" in mice. I will also review recent experimental findings in humans showing that specific patterns of visual search are predictive correlates of generalized anxiety.

The Huberman Lab studies:

VISUAL REPAIR: in mice & in humans, including clinical trials now underway for halting vision loss in glaucoma.
VISUAL-AUTONOMIC INTERACTIONS: in mice & in humans, including testing novel interventions for generalized anxiety in Virtual Reality.

Those who wish to meet the speaker during their visit should contact Carol Mason, PhD. For general inquiries please contact [email protected].

The Columbia Neuroscience Seminar series is a collaborative effort of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, the Department of Neuroscience, the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, and with support from the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.