Monday, December 7, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Barbara Mowder (Pace University)
The NYAS Psychology Section presents programs about contemporary issues and research in the field.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers: Haim Einat (University of Minnesota), Rif S. El-Mallakh (University of Louisville School of Medicine), Todd Gould (University of Maryland School of Medicine), Alexander B. Niculescu, III (Indiana University School of Medicine)
This symposium will highlight new developments in Bipolar disorder models and biomarker identification, and will reveal how these new strategies can further our understanding of the disease and our ability to identify new therapies.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Helen Fisher (Rutgers University)
A biological anthropologist who has conducted fMRI studies on the brains of people in love, Helen Fisher maintains that humans have evolved three core brain systems for mating and reproduction.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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 and review the theoretical basis of different PDE isoforms as well as the progress towards human clinical testing of these agents.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Speaker: Nancy Etcoff (Harvard Medical School)
Nancy Etcoff, author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, shares her latest cognitive psychology observations on the evolution of beauty and its connection to human happiness.
Monday, October 26, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Rolando Diaz-Loving (University of Mexico)
The NYAS Psychology Section presents programs about contemporary issues and research in the field.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Peter S. Jensen, MD (The REACH Institute, Mayo Clinic)
The Lyceum Society is comprised of the Academy's retired and semi-retired members. Talks cover various scientific fields. All Academy members are welcome. All Lyceum meetings (except December) are Brown Bag lunches. Brown Bag: 11:30 am; Lecture & Discussion: 1pm to 3 pm.
Monday, September 14, 2009 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Speaker: Elkhonon Goldberg (NYU School of Medicine)
How does the brain engage in complex decision-making, deal with novelty and ambiguity, and address moral choices? Find out when Science & the City presents world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg, who will share fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind.
Saturday, May 16, 2009 | 9:30 AM - 3:45 PM
30th Annual Conference of the New York Neuropsychology Group
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eBriefing
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
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
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
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.
Annals
Edited by Syed F. Ali (National Center for Toxicological Research/FDA, Jefferson, Arkansas) and Michael J. Kuhar (Division of Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia)
Both basic scientists and clinical investigators from the international community present new conceptual insights into the the mechanisms of CNS-acting drugs and drugs of abuse, as well as treatment of drug addiction.
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