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  • Behavioral Sciences

  • Events 

    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.

    Friday, March 25, 2011 | 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM

    Music, Science & Medicine: Frontiers in Biomedical Research & Clinical Applications

    Organizers: Dorita S. Berger (The Music Therapy Clinic), György Buzsáki (Rutgers University), Claudius Conrad (Harvard Medical School), Matthew S. Goodwin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joseph LeDoux (New York University), Aniruddh Patel (The Neurosciences Institute), Paula Tallal (Rutgers University), Concetta Tomaino (Beth Abraham Family of Health Services) and Mark Jude Tramo (Harvard Medical School)

    This conference will foster dialogue between clinical music and research on physiological function (neurocognitive mechanisms, hormonal and metabolic responses, pain control, motor functions), and address therapeutic areas where music and physiology can synergize.

  • 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.

    Wednesday, May 19, 2010 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

    How Prosperity Evolves: An Evening with Matt Ridley

    Speaker: Matt Ridley

    Join Science & the City as we host the noted science journalist and zoologist Matt Ridley for a talk about optimism, human progress, and prosperity based on his new book, The Rational Optimist.

    Monday, March 29, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

    The Lady and the Sharks: An Evening with Legendary Ichthyologist Eugenie Clark

    Speaker: Eugenie Clark (The Mote Marine Laboratory)

    The world-renowned ichthyologist, Eugenie Clark, known as "the Shark Lady," describes her fantastic and distinguished 60-year career studying deep sea sharks and tropical fish.

    Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

    Circadian Cycle and Metabolic Dysfunction

    Speakers: Joe Bass (Northwestern University), Carla B. Green (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Robert Levitan (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), Pere Puigserver (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Michael Terman (Columbia University)

    This symposium will bring together leading researchers to examine the link between metabolic function, internal biological timing and the physiological consequences of circadian disruption.

  • 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

    Reproductive Aging

    Edited by Maxine Weinstein (Center for Population and Health, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.) and Kathleen O’Connor (Department of Anthropology, Biocultural Anthropology and Biodemography Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington)

    This Annals volume presents manuscripts stemming from the workshop “Biodemography of Reproductive Aging,” held on June 5–6, 2009 in Washington, DC.

    Volume 1204

    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

    Phosphodiesterase Targets for Cognitive Dysfunction and Schizophrenia

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

    This symposium focused on phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors for schizophrenia and cognitive disorders, reviewing the theoretical basis of different PDEs as possible drug candidates, and charting the most recent progress towards human clinical testing.

    eBriefing

    Circadian Cycle and Metabolic Dysfunction

    Speakers: Pere Puigserver (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Carla Green (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Joe Bass (Northwestern University), Robert Levitan (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto), Michael Terman (Columbia University)
     
    Organizers: John G. Kral (SUNY Downstate Medical Center), Andrew Swick

    This symposium brought together leading researchers to examine the link between metabolic function, internal biological timing, and the physiological consequences of circadian disruption.