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Quack Chats Pub Talk: Of fish and humans: How their basic brain development and behavior could help treat autism
6:00 pm
July 11, 2018
Downtown Athletic Club, Ax Billy Grill
Registration page: Quack Chats Pub Talk: Of fish and humans: How their basic brain development and behavior could help treat autism
University of Oregon biologist and brain scientist Phil Washbourne studies how synapses form in zebrafish. In his Quack Chats pub talk, he will describe his latest research and detail how it potentially could guide new treatments for brain defects that underlie problems in social interaction, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.
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