Brain, Behavior and Cognition Program Colloquium Series 2006-2007

Friday, September 22, 2006
Nick Washienko, Boston University
"Delivering the Effective Presentation."
Joint CMB/BBC/PIN
12:00 p.m., 2 Cummington Street, Room 109

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Michael Lyons, Boston University
"Genes, Environment, & Time: Findings from the Vietnam Era Twins Study of Aging."
Joint BBC/Clinical
1:30 p.m., 2 Cummington Street, Room 109

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Fran Grossman, Boston University
"Oops: Ethical Pitfalls for Graduate Students"
Joint BBC/Clinical
1:30 p.m., 648 Beacon Street, Room 608

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Grant Writing Seminar:
Professor Howard Eichenbaum; Professor William Eldred; Cynthia Kowal; & Erin Ryan.
Joint CMB/BBC/PIN
12:00 p.m., 24 Cummington Street, Room 103

Friday, October 27, 2006
Raymond Kesner, University of Utah
"Different functions for different subregions of the hippocampus:
A process and pathway analysis."
Joint CMB/BBC
12:00 p.m., 2 Cummington Street, Room 109

Monday, October 30, 2006
Poster Session
Joint CMB/BBC/PIN
12:00-2:00, 590 Commonwealth Ave., SCI Lounge Room 103

Thursday, November 2, 2006
Leslie Ungerleider, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health
"Mechanisms of decision-making in the human brain."
CELEST
11:30 a.m., 677 Beacon Street, Room B02

Friday, November 17, 2006
Steve Hillyard, Neurosciences Department, University of California San Diego
"Mechanisms of visual selective attention: Electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies in humans."
CELEST
2:00 p.m., 677 Beacon Street, Room B02

Friday, December 1, 2006
Gary Kaplan, Boston University Medical School
"GABAergic agents inhibit opiate addiction-related behaviors and activation of motivational systems."
BBC
12:00 p.m., 64 Cummington Street, Room 150

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Chris Moore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: TBA
Joint BBC/PIN
12:00 p.m., 24 Cummington Street, Room B1

Brain, Behavior and Cognition Program Colloquium Series 2005-2006

Friday, September 16, 2005
Dr. Bill Carlezon, Harvard Medical School
"Study and treatment of depressive-like moods in rodents."

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University
"Stress & health: From the neuron to the baboons of the Serengeti."

Friday, October 28, 2005
Dr. David Heeger, New York University
"Traveling waves in visual cortex during binocular rivalry."
64 Cummington St., Room 150, 12:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Michael Davis, Emory University
"Neural systems involved in fear, anxiety, and extinction."
CMB
2 Cummington St. Room 109, 1:30 p.m.

Friday, February 24, 2006
Dr. Geoffrey M. Boynton, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
"Spatial and feature-based attention in the human visual system."

Friday, April 21, 2006
Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Linda Dwoskin, University of Kentucky
"The development of lobeline and its analogs as potential pharmacotherapies for methamphetamine addiction."

Friday, April 28, 2006
Dr. Yue Chen, Harvard Medical School
"Visual processing in Schizophrenia."

Brain, Behavior and Cognition Program Colloquium Series 2004-2005

Friday, November 19, 2004
Arash Yazdan Bakhsh, Boston University
"3D surface perception: Stratification, transparency, and neon color spreading."

Friday, December 3, 2004
Alex Martin, National Institute of Health
"Neural foundations for conceptual representations."

Friday, January 28, 2005
Helen Barbas, Boston University
"How the frontal lobe guides hearts and minds."

Friday, February 25, 2005
Jill McGaughy, University of New Hampshire
TBA

Friday, March 25, 2005
Andrew Papnicolaou, University of Texas
"Magnetoencephalographic mapping of cerebral mechanisms of language."

Friday, April 22, 2005
Steve Yantis, Johns Hopkins University
"Cortical mechanisms of attentional control."