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Prof. Pasko Rakic of Yale University Visits Overseas Teacher's Lecture Hall

[发布人]:[发布日期]:2018-05-25[访问次数]:1423

  On May 24th, Professor Pasko Rakic of Yale University School of Medicine gave a brilliant lecture titled “The evolution of brain and the formation of brain map during disease development” for Zhejiang master students in the Zijingang lecture hall of Alumni House. Pasko Rakic is a renowned neuroscientist at Yale University School of Medicine and is also the recipient of the 2008 Kavli Neuroscience Award.


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  Prof Rakic is affable and lectures are humorous. He started from studies he had done before, eliciting the phenomenon that “cortical neurons are not produced within the cerebral cortex itself” and further analyzed how this phenomenon occurs and the causes behind it. Prof. Rakic also contrasted his choice-elimination hypothesis with the alternative retention hypothesis proposed by Prof. Changex, humorously comparing it to “half-full cup and half-empty cup”.

  Professor Rakic pointed out that the core issue is not the dispute between genes and environment or stability and plasticity. The focus of research should be on how the two complement and supplement each other. Subsequently, he compared and analyzed the cerebral cortex differences between rats and humans in terms of both qualitative and quantitative dimensions. At the same time, he carefully traced the cerebral cortex elements from which the monkeys were born, and analyzed the external environment differences (pressure, fever, and other Disease, etc.) The development of different degrees of brain area development. After a series of analyses, Rakic concludes that as the evolution of vertebrates evolves, neuronal turnover capacity continues to decline.


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  The atmosphere of the interactive session was enthusiastic. The students actively asked questions about the speech and the teacher also asked questions about the operation of the study. The entire lecture ended successfully in the interaction.

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