DeSciNYC: Ketamine, Brainwide Recording and the Neurobiology of Dissociation with Dr. Isaac V Kauvar

​Dr. Isaac V Kauvar will talk about the tools he developed for recording and analyzing cortex-wide neuronal activity and discovered a neural oscillation that appears to underlie dissociative effects of drugs such as ketamine.

​Dr. Kauvar is an LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, working in the Stanford Autonomous Agents Lab, where he explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience. His research focuses on understanding how neural networks influence behaviors like exploration and decision making, utilizing data from diverse sources such as cellular recordings in mice and AI systems. He completed his PhD at Stanford, developing neuroscience tools and uncovering new insights into neural oscillations linked to dissociative drug effects.

Presented by: DeSciNYC and SVN

​Schedule:
7:00-8:00 PM: Networking
8:00-8:30 PM: Main talk
8:30-9:30 PM: More chatting

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