Seminars - 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
"Reducing ethanol consumption via dietary taurine supplementation during adolescence"
Rebecca Helfand, M.A.
Baylor University
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
"Imaging modules of sensory perception and attention in the primate brain"
Anna Wang Roe, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Monday, January 24, 2011
"Neuroimaging approaches to understanding executive function: Basic and translational approaches"
Kristen Mackiewicz Seghete, M.A.
University of Illinois Medical Center, Dept of Child Psychiatry, Institute for Juvenile Research
Thursday, February 17, 2011
"What's up with Lewy bodies?"
Brittany Dugger, B.S.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
"Ovarian Aging and Menopause: Epidemiology and Physiology"
Nanette Santoro, M.D.
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Univ. of Colorado
Sponsored by Division of Reproductive Sciences, Biology of Aging Group, and OBGYN
Thursday, March 24, 2011
"Apolipoprotein E in diabetes: Examining the harmful effect of ApoE4 on dyslipidemia"
Lance Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate
University of North Carolina
Monday, March 28, 2011
"The 'addictive personality' revisited: Can neuroeconomics identify a robust phenotype of addiction?"
John Monterosso, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California
Monday, March 28, 2011
"Neural Correlates of Age-Related Memory Deficits in Rats and Monkeys"
Carol Barnes, Ph.D.
Regents' Professor, Psychology and Neurology, The Univ. of Arizona
Monday, April 11, 2011
"Chronobiology of Alcohol & Alcoholism"
Alan M. Rosenwasser, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, University of Maine
Friday, April 22, 2011
"A New Method for Obtaining Unbiased Estimates from Heterogeneous fMRI Data"
Kathleen Gates, M.A.
Developmental Systems Group
The Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, April 28, 2011
"A human anti-cocaine monoclonal antibody as a treatment for cocaine abuse"
Andrew Norman, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
"Sleep and Neurodegenerative Diseases: Correlation or Cause?"
Jerry Yin, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics & Psychiatry
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
May 20, 2011
Bob Hitzemann, Joe Robertson, and Dan Dorsa: Introduction
Joe Matarazzo: 1957-61: A New Basic Science and Clinical Department is Born
Ruth Matarazzo: A New Clinical Service: From East to West
Arthur Wiens: My Timeline: Medical Psychology Internship and Residency Program Compendium
Chris Cunningham: Introduction of a Ph.D. Program in Experimental-Physiological Psychology
Bob Hitzemann: Behavioral Neuroscience, Present and Future
Special Guest Speaker: R. Adron Harris: Alcohol and the Brain: Molecules and Mice
Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research
Professor of Neurobiology and Waggoner Chair in Cellular and Molecular Biology
University of Texas at Austin
Matt Lattal: Behavioral Neuroscience Perspectives on Extinction and Memory Erasure
Suzanne Mitchell: Understanding Impulsive Behavior: Contributions from Behavioral Neuroscience
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
"Dysregulation of Translational Control in Brain Disorders"
Eric Klann, Ph.D.
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Thursday, June 16, 2011
"The Identification of Novel Glycine Receptor Modulators Using Phage Display"
Megan Tipps, B.S., Ph.D. Candidate
Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Institute for Neuroscience
The Univ. of Texas at Austin
Friday, July 8, 2011
"The Edinger-Westphal nucleus: Four centuries later"
Jackson Bittencourt, MD, PhD
Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Neuronal Structure and Function
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
"Discounting of probabilistic and delayed rewards: Effects of reward type and short term nicotine deprivation"
Gabriel Searcy, MA
Western Michigan University, Department of Psychology
Monday, July 25, 2011
"Glucocorticoids alter the pattern of apoptosis in the developing rat brain"
Damian Zuloaga, PhD
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Friday, August 26, 2011
"Retrotransposon-mediated genomic dynamism: how mobile elements shape genomes and how we use them to infer primate phlogenies"
Thomas Joshua Meyer, PhD
Louisiana State University
Monday, October 24, 2011
"Turning blosp into a word: a behavioral lexicalization study"
Binyam Nardos, PhD Candidate in Neuroscience
Petersen/Schlaggar Lab, Washington University in Saint Louis
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
"Non-invasive parcellation of human brain areas and its application to network analysis of the aging brain"
Gagan S. Wig, Ph.D.
Washington University, School of Medicine, Dept. of Neurology
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
"Neural substrate of amphetamine conditioned behaviors"
David J. Rademacher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine
Division of Translational Science & Molecular Medicine
"Cognitive rigidity and neural adaptations following brief and chronic methamphetamine exposure in rats"
Alicia Izquierdo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology
California State University, Los Angeles
Thursday, December 15, 2011
"Comparing striatal dopamine function in adolescent and adult rats"
Marguerite Matthews, BS
University of Pittsburgh