Neuroscience Seminars 2008-2009

Friday, 8 May 2009:

“Dyslexia Susceptibility Genes and ther Effects on Brain Development”

Albert M. Galaburda, M.D., Emily Fisher Landau Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Chief Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Wednesday, 29 April 2009:

“Epigenetic Remodeling of AMPA Receptors in Neuronal Death”

R. Suzanne Zukin, Ph.D., Professor, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Director, Neurpsychopharmacology Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Yeshiva University

Thursday, 5 March 2009:

“Modeling & Representation in Medical Image Analysis”

William M. (Sandy) Wells, III, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School & Brighham and Women’s Hosptial, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

Wednesday, 11 February 2009:

“Beyond the Dopamine Hypothesis: The Role of Glutamate in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia”

Joseph T. Coyle, Eben S. Draper Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital

Thursday, 6 November 2008:

“Kinetics and Consequences of Alzheimer Neuropathology Using Multiphoton Microscopy”

Bradley T. Hyman, Ph.D., John B. Penny Jr. Professor of Neurology. Harvard Medical School, Director, Alzheimer’s Unit, Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Wednesday, 10 September 2008:

“Differential Outcomes in Neurocognitive Aging within the Hippocampal System”

Michela Gallagher, Ph.D., Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

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