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  • Psychology

  • Events 

    Tuesday, September 21, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

    The Scientific Connection between Optimal Health and Pleasure : An Evening with Christiane Northrup

    Speaker: Christiane Northrup (Christiane Northrup, Inc.)

    A leading proponent of medicine and healing that acknowledges the unity of the mind and body discusses the vital connection between pleasure and health.

    September 24 - 25, 2010

    Women, Power, and Aging

    Organizers: Mercedes McCormick (Pace University), Florence Denmark (Pace University, Joan Chrisler (Connecticut College) and Varda Muhlbauer (Netanya Academic College)

    Women, Power, and Aging event will address the empowerment, self-confidence, and enhanced freedom of self-definition that have educated mid-life women today to change their experience of aging and improved their quality of life

    October 29 - 30, 2010

    Behavioral Epigenetics

    Organizers: Barry Lester (Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University), Edward Tronick (University Massachusetts Boston and Children's Hospital Boston), and Eric Nestler (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)

    This 2-day CME- and CE-accredited conference will focus on the quest to understand how environmental factors affect behavioral outcomes (learning, memory, mental illness, normal development and developmental psychopathology) via epigenetic modulation.

    March 30 - April 1, 2011

    Critical Contributions of the Orbitofrontal Cortex to Behavior

    Keynote Speaker: Daniel Gilbert, PhD (Harvard University)

    This conference will highlight the most recent advances in understanding the critical contribution of orbitofrontal cortex to supporting human behavior across multiple neural circuits.

  • Past Events

    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    Estrogen Receptor Signaling in the Brain: A Trip Down Memory Lane

    Speakers: Enikö Kramár (University of California, Irvine), Feng Liu (Pfizer), Bruce McEwen (Rockefeller University), and John Morrison (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)

    Estrogens play a role in memory processes, yet molecular mechanisms and the role of estrogen receptors remain unclear. This meeting discusses estrogen signaling for memory formation and advances in dissecting out the pathways underlying these effects.

    Monday, April 26, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

    Improving Memory and Recall: The Archives of the History of Psychology

    Speaker: David B. Baker (Archives of the History of American Psychology)

    The NYAS Psychology Section presents programs about contemporary issues and research in the field.

    Monday, February 8, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

    Dragon Seed: Chinese Immigrant Youths in New York City

    Speakers: Uwe P. Gielen (St. Francis College) and Ting Lei (Borough of Manhattan Community College & Teachers College)

    The NYAS Psychology Section presents programs about contemporary issues and research in the field.

    Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    Phosphodiesterase Targets for Cognitive Dysfunction and Schizophrenia

    Organizers: Lawrence P. Wennogle (Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) and Peter Hutson (Merck and Co., Inc.)

    The symposium will focus on phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors for schizophrenia and cognitive disorders, review the theoretical basis of different PDEs, and chart the most recent progress towards human clinical testing.

  • Publications 

    eBriefing

    Estrogen Receptor Signaling in the Brain: A Trip Down Memory Lane

    Speakers: Enikö Kramár (University of California, Irvine), Feng Liu (Pfizer), Bruce McEwen (The Rockefeller University), and John Morrison (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)

    Organizers: Feng Liu (Pfizer) and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Estrogens play a role in memory processes, yet molecular mechanisms and the role of estrogen receptors remain unclear. This meeting discussed estrogen signaling for memory formation and advances in dissecting out the pathways underlying these effects.

    eBriefing

    Therapeutics for Cognitive Aging: Preserving Mental Vitality across the Lifespan

    Organizer: Howard Fillit (Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation)

    There's no consensus about what cognitive aging is, but mental decline clearly affects most of us as we grow older. This eBriefing explores how cognitive aging relates to other neurodegenerative disorders and how it may be managed.

    eBriefing

    Improving Pediatric Health: Biobehavioral Approaches to Childhood Disease Management

    Keynote Speaker: David Krol (University of Toledo College of Medicine; Global Children's Dental Health Taskforce)

    The traditional approach to delivering pediatric health care is not effective in underserved populations. Practitioners are investigating comprehensive, community-based approaches that have been successful in other contexts.

    Annals

    Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology

    Edited by Nancy VanDerHeide and William J. Coburn (Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California)

    Current trends in this field have radically changed the face of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy by paving the way for innovative thinking, elaborating psychoanalytic theory, and linking therapeutic growth to neuroscience, philosophy, the arts, and other associated disciplines.

    Annals

    Disorders of Consciousness

    Edited by Nicholas D. Schiff (Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York) and Steven Laureys (University of Liege, Belgium)

    Published in cooperation with the Association for Research on Nervous and Mental Disorders, this volume brings together basic neuroscientists and investigators who focus on neuroimaging studies of patients in different clinical settings with disorders of consciousness.