When:
Thursday, March 23, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CT
Where: Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center, Feinberg School of Medicine - SQBRC Simpson-Querrey Auditorium & Pre-Function, 303 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Peter Penzes
(312) 503-5379
Group: Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Abstract:
Social interactions between individuals and among groups are a hallmark of human society and are critical to the physical and mental health of a wide variety of species including humans. The central goal of our lab is to study the fundamental principles of how social behavior is regulated in the brain. We are particularly interested in prosocial behavior that animals display to benefit other individuals. We study how neural circuits and the underlying computation regulate social behavioral decisions within a single brain as well as how emergent inter-brain neural properties arise from social interactions between individuals.