IST Austria Lecture "Towards a molecular logic of neural circuits" by Thomas C. Südhof
Channel: ISTAustria
Date: 18/03/2016

On March 16, 2016, Nobel Prize winner Thomas C. Südhof was speaking about “The molecular logic of neural circuits” at IST Austria. The Raiffeisen Lecture Hall was packed with people when the internationally recognized neuroscientist from the Stanford School of Medicine discussed how neural circuits process information by transmitting and computing signals at synapses. He argued that interactions between trans-synaptic cell-surface molecules, such as neurexins, determine the molecular logic of neural circuits and presented evidence that some autism and schizophrenia syndromes are produced by impairments in this molecular logic. In short, his IST Lecture provided a conceptual framework for understanding neural circuits in the human brain and their impairment in neuropsychiatric disorders.