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  • Neuroscience

  • Events 

    September 23 - 25, 2010

    Building Better Brains: Neural Prosthetics and Beyond

    Keynote Speaker: Apostolos P. Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota Medical School)

    Neural prosthetic devices to replace motor, sensory, and cognitive function lost by disease or trauma hold great therapeutic promise but have not been widely used in people. This conference will examine how to use neural prosthetics therapeutically.

    Wednesday, October 6, 2010 | 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM

    Parkinson's Disease Therapeutics Conference

    Chair: Franz Hefti, PhD (Avid Radiopharmaceuticals)

    This conference will highlight novel and innovative therapeutic targets for Parkinson’s Disease, biomarkers for early detection and assessment of disease progression, and emerging strategies to alleviate symptoms and/or to slow disease progression.

    Tuesday, October 26, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    Neuroscience and Immunology: Intersection Yields Clues for the Etiology of Psychiatric and Neurodegenerative Diseases

    Speakers: Katerina Akassoglou (Gladstone Institute & UCSF), Andrew Miller (Emory University School of Medicine), Malú Tansey (Emory University School of Medicine), Shi Du Yan (Columbia University) and Raz Yirmiya (Hebrew University)

    Breakthroughs spanning neuroscience and immunology are rare, as they do not share a common language or purpose. This symposium highlights recent discoveries in clinical depression, the stress response, Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis.

    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.

    Tuesday, November 9, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

    From Stone Tools to the Internet: How Humans Adapt to Technology

    Speakers: Nicholas Carr, Nicholas Toth (The Stone Age Institute)

    Humans have long modified our world through tools and technology. But how do the tools modify us? Join Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. With an introduction by Stone Age anthropologist, Nicholas Toth.

  • 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.

    Thursday, May 13, 2010 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

    Mitochondrial Function as a Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer's Disease

    Organizers: Howard Fillit (Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation) and Sonya Dougal (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Please join us for a critical discussion of potential drug therapeutics for mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.

    May 9 - 10, 2010

    Innate Inflammation as the Common Pathway of Risk Factors Leading to Transient Ischemic Attacks and Stroke: Pathophysiology and Potential Interventions

    Organizers: Gregory J. del Zoppo (University of Washington School of Medicine) and Philip B. Gorelick (University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago School of Medicine)

    This 1.5-day conference will address recent advancements, challenges, and future directions in research studying innate inflammation as a risk factor leading to transient ischemic attacks and stroke, and their potential implications with respect to therapy and prevention.

    Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    Unmet Needs in Pain Therapeutics: Neuropathic Pain and Fibromyalgia

    Organizers: Chad E. Beyer (University of Colorado School of Medicine), Mark R. Bowlby (Merck Research Laboratories), Ildiko Antal (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Beth Winkelstein (University of Pennsylvania), Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    This symposium addresses clinical applications and new pain mechanisms for the treatment of chronic pain syndromes, and provides an update on the progress and barriers to developing effective preclinical models of pain, in particular fibromyalgia.

  • Publications 

    Annals

    Psychiatric and Neurologic Aspects of War

    Edited by Jack D. Barchas and JoAnn Difede (Weil Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY)

    This Annals volume includes manuscripts from the 89th Annual Conference for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease entitled "Psychiatric and Neurologic Aspects of War" held at Rockefeller University on December 16, 2009.

    Forthcoming issue

    Annals

    Epigenetics and Neuropsychiatric Diseases: Mechanisms Mediating Nature and Nature

    Edited by Mark F. Mehler (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York) and Dolores Malaspina (New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York)

    This Annals on-line only issue stems from the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease 88th Annual Conference entitled "Epigenetics and Neuropsychiatric Diseases: Mechanisms Mediating Nature and Nurture" held December 5, 2008 at the New York Academy of Medicine.

    Volume 1204 S1

    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

    Mitochondrial Function as a Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer's Disease

    Organizers: Howard Fillit (Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation) and Sonya Dougal (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    Damage to energy-producing organelles may lead to a cascade of events resulting in Alzheimer's disease. Insights into this process and the possibility of new drug targets were the topic of an Academy symposium.

    eBriefing

    Unmet Needs in Pain Therapeutics: Neuropathic Pain and Fibromyalgia

    Organizers: Ildiko Antal (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Chad E. Beyer (University of Colorado School of Medicine), Mark R. Bowlby (Merck Research Laboratories),  Beth Winkelstein (University of Pennsylvania), and Jennifer Henry (The New York Academy of Sciences)

    This symposium addressed clinical applications and new pain mechanisms for the treatment of chronic pain syndromes, and provided an update on the progress and barriers to developing effective preclinical models of pain, in particular fibromyalgia.

  • Webinar Archives

    Webinar Archive
    February 23, 2010

    Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors: Translation from Discovery to Clinical Trials

    Researchers met to discuss advances in basic and translational research on metabotropic glutamate receptors, which are promising targets in drug discovery for CNS diseases and other illnesses.

    Webinar Archive
    October 27, 2009

    Is Alzheimer's Disease Type 3 Diabetes?

    What is the connection between dysregulated neuronal insulin signaling and Alzheimer's disease? In a recent Academy webinar, some researchers argued that the neurodegenerative disease should be considered a type of diabetes.