CS&E Colloquium: How the Human Brain Changes Its Mind: Neural Computations for Learning and Adaptive Control
The computer science colloquium takes place on Mondays from 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. This week's speaker, Alexander Herman of the UMN Department of Psychiatry, will be giving a talk titled "How the Human Brain Changes Its Mind: Neural Computations for Learning and Adaptive Control."
Biography
I obtained my M.D. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Francisco as part of the prestigious NIH Medical Scientist Training Program. Prior to that, I studied complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute. I obtained my B.A. in Physics with High Honors from Wesleyan University. I am an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a member of the Medical Discovery Team on Addiction. My human neuroscience labExternal link that opens in the same window studies neural mechanisms of decision-making that are impaired in addiction and amenable to treatment with neuromodulation. My lab combines invasive and non-invasive methods including intracranial electrophysiology, direct brain stimulation, magnetoencephalography, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Clinically, I am developing a specialty practice in refractory mood and anxiety co-morbid with addiction and chronic pain disorders.
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Start date
Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
End date
Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
Location
Keller Hall 3-180