BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH - ECPv6.2.6//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231201T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231201T120000 DTSTAMP:20231124T111237 CREATED:20230404T192402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231022T181816Z UID:10675-1701428400-1701432000@www.centreforbrainhealth.ca SUMMARY:Dr. Mark Bevan: Dysregulation and rescue of subthalamic nucleus locomotor function in Huntington’s disease mice DESCRIPTION:Zoom option if unable to attend in person:\nZoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”)\nMeeting ID: 91512 289258\nPasscode: 289258\n\nIn this seminar I will focus on our recent studies on the role of the subthalamic nucleus in motor control and its dysregulation in movement disorders.  We found that 1) subthalamic locomotor encoding and gait are highly dysregulated in Q175 Huntington’s disease (HD) mice 2) analogous gait deficits could be generated in wild type mice through optogenetic manipulation of subthalamic activity 3) subthalamic locomotor encoding and gait could be rescued in HD mice through suppression of subthalamic mutant huntingtin expression. Together\, these findings argue that subthalamic activity normally optimizes movement\, whereas dysregulated subthalamic activity contributes to gait deficits in HD and is a potential target for therapeutic intervention. URL:https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/events/dr-mark-bevan/ LOCATION:Rudy North Lecture Theatre\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health\, 2215 Wesbrook Mall\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6T 1Z3\, Canada CATEGORIES:Neuroscience Research Colloquium END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR