UMass Neuroscientists will be presenting their latest research findings at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference, which is being held October 19 -23 in Chicago, IL.  Here is a list of those presentations:

• 011.05. Cortisol in mother’s milk predicts head growth and neurological development in the neonatal period in rhesus monkeys
  *A. M. DETTMER, J. S. MEYER, K. HINDE;
• 23.18. Learning complex action representations for goal-directed tasks through neuromodulation of Hebbian plasticity in modular spiking networks
  *S. AENUGU, A. SHARMA, S. YELAMARTHY, H. HAZAN, P. S. THOMAS, R. KOZMA;
• 069.22. The role of reward signaling in prairie vole peer relationships
  *N. S. LEE, A. K. BEERY;
• 069.23. Social selectivity and social reward in prairie voles
  *A. B. BEERY, J. CHEN, S. LOPEZ, N. S. LEE;
• 067.08. Spatial vision from a low-resolution eye
  *P. D. QUINLAN, K. E. FISCHER, B. DRESCHER, J. W. LICHTMAN, P. S. KATZ;
• 079.12. Alcohol drinking reduces the number of myelinated axons in the prefrontal cortex in male adolescent rats
  *B. A. REYES, T. LHAMO, A. AL-SIBAI, L. BENGSTON, A. SILVA-GOTAY, E. TAVARES5, H. N. RICHARDSON, E. J. VAN BOCKSTAELE
• 147.29. Network analysis of brain transcriptome profiles in new mother rats exhibiting depression-related parenting disturbances
  *S. B. WINOKUR, M. PEREIRA;
• 205.28. Simulation of in vivo measurements of co-active neural, lactate, and glucose activity in a visual-cortical neuro-energetic network
  R. NOACK, *R. KOZMA;
• 207.05. Progressive multiple sclerosis demonstrates greater sensorimotor function disparity between upper and lower extremities compared to relapsing-remitting and controls
  *S. SATO, J. BUONACCORSI, J. D. MIEHM, C. RAJALA3 J. LIM, J. A. KENT, R. E. A. VAN EMMERIK;
• 242.13. Superior cognitive flexibility and associated changes in resting brain networks in male middle-aged marmosets compared to females
  M. LACLAIR, M. FEBO, B. NEPHEW, N. GERVAIS, G. POIRIER, K. WORKMAN, *C. M. MOORE, J. A. KING, A. LACREUSE, R. J. CALI;
• 251.16. Optimizing techniques to visualize and quantify alcohol-induced changes to myelinated axons of the medial prefrontal cortex
  *A. SILVA-GOTAY, K. LUCIER, H. N. RICHARDSON;
• 306.06. Putative amygdala-brainstem synaptic mechanism important for sensory gating
  *J. C. CANO, K. FENELON;
• 337.18. Neural correlates of recognition memory in the human visual ventral stream
  *N. M. DE LA ROSA-RIVERA, K. LEGER, N. BLAUCH, R. A. COWELL
• 401.06. Genetic and physiological segregation of excitatory vs inhibitory cell types in songbird auditory cortex
  *J. A. SPOOL, G. SCARPA, M. MACEDO-LIMA, Y. MOROHASHI, Y. YAZAKI-SUGIYAMA, L. REMAGE-HEALEY
• 414.17. Prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex neurons are differentially activated during passive and active alcohol acquisition: Influences of individual preference and chronic exposure
  *B. KAMINSKA, M. L. BERKOWITZ-CERASANO, D.E. MOORMAN;
• 425.17. ASD and ADHD motor neurodevelopmental disorders
  *J. V. JOSEJ. I. NURNBERGER, Jr., M. H. PLAWECKI, A. PHADNIS, K. DOCTOR;
• 494.20. Role of rat secondary motor cortex in complex movements and decision making
  *A. BURMAN, E. M. VAZEY, D. E. MOORMAN;
• 504.11. Characterization of prefrontal-subcortical circuitry in execution and inhibition of reward seeking behaviors
  *J. P. CABALLERO, D. E. MOORMAN;
• 523.18. Learning complex action representations for goal-directed tasks through neuromodulation of Hebbian plasticity in modular spiking networks
  *S. AENUGU, A. SHARMA, S. YELAMARTHY, H. HAZAN, P. S. THOMAS, R. KOZMA;
• 695.23. Neural habituation enhances novelty detection: An EEG study of rapidly presented words
  *L. P. L. JACOB, D. E. HUBER;
• 693.03 – Three year change in cognition, motor function and stress reactivity in aging marmosets (callithrix jacchus)
  E. S. ROTHWELL, K. P. WORKMAN, A. LACREUSE;
• 696.16. Age-related changes in sleep-dependent procedural learning consolidation
  *K. A. KAINEC, A. B. FITZROY, R. M. SPENCER;
• 764.19. Corticospinal drive is reduced with age during split-belt treadmill walking
  S. SATO, *J. T. CHOI;
• 768.18. Somatosensory responses in the deep layers of superior colliculus
  *A. QURESHI, R.GOEL, J. KIM, N. M. DE LA ROSA-RIVERA, M. HIMMELBACH, G. HAGBERG, K. SCHEFFLER, D. RESS;