Monday Seminars
Topics and Speakers in the 2002-2003 Academic Year
8-26-02
No seminar- GMU first day of classes
9-02-02
No seminar- Labor Day
9-09-02
Krasnow Institute: Directions for the Second Decade [abstract]
[Powerpoint
slides]
James Olds, Director, Krasnow Institute, George Mason University
9-16-02
No seminar- Yom Kippur
9-23-02 CANCELLED
(due to medical emergency)
Anatomy May Not Be Destiny in Protein-Protein Interactions: Hydrophobic
Eigenvector Equivalences and Receptor-Targeted Peptide Design [abstract]
Arnold J. Mandell, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Cielo
Institute, Asheville, NC; Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Emory University,
Atlanta, GA; Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca
Raton, FL; Professor Emeritus, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
9-30-02
Talents of Dyslexics II: Case Studies and Neuroscience [abstract]
Thomas G. West, Director, Center for the Study of Dyslexia and Talent,
Krasnow Institute & Gordon Sherman, Science Director,
Center for the Study of Dyslexia and Talent, Krasnow Institute, and
Executive Director, The Newgrange School and Educational Outreach Center,
Princeton, NJ
10-07-02
Molecular Memory Substrates: Targets of Early Alzheimer's Disease [abstract]
Daniel L. Alkon, Scientific Director, Blanche Rockefeller Institute
10-14-02
No seminar- Columbus day
10-21-02
Pink Noise, Power Laws, and Cognitive Performance
Guy Van Orden, Program Director, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive
Sciences, National Science Foundation
10-28-02
Hippocampal Formation Glutamate Abnormalities in Schizophrenia [abstract]
Susan Bachus, Krasnow Institute and Department of Psychology, George
Mason University and NIMH, National Institutes of Health
11-04-02
No seminar- Society of Neuroscience 32nd annual meeting Nov. 2nd-7th
11-11-02
Neuroscientific Investigations of High-Ability Children with ADHD (Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Layne Kalbfleisch, Graduate School of Education and Krasnow Institute,
George Mason University
11-18-02
What is the difference between Ahhh and Ohhh in your auditory cortex?
[abstract]
Didier A. Depireux, Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland
11-25-02
Anthrax: Pathogenesis, Prophylaxis, and Treatment
Ken Alibek, Center for Biodefense, George Mason University
12-02-02
Public Bioethics and Neuroscience
Lee Zwanziger, President's Council on Bioethics
01/13/03
Extra lecture sponsored by
Krasnow Institute and School of Computational Sciences
Title: Estrogen and Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus
Speaker: Nancy Desmond
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville,
VA
abstract
01/20/03
Martin Luther King Holiday -- No seminar
01/27/03
Neural Activity Correlates of Sexual Behavior and Analgesia in Females
Barry Komisaruk, Psychology Department, Rutgers-The State University
of New Jersey, Newark Campus
02/03/03
Computation in the auditory cortex
Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
02/10/03
Childhood-onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Are Contamination Fears
Justified? [abstract]
Susan Swedo, Chief, Pediatrics & Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch,
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
02-17-03
No seminar - President's Day
02/24/03
Why are both Unconditioned Stimulus and Conditioned Stimulus required
for classical conditioning? [abstract]
Avrama Blackwell, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and School of
Computational Sciences, George Mason University
03/03/03
Social Cognition and the Human Prefrontal Cortex [abstract]
Jordan Grafman, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
03/10/03
No seminar - GMU Spring Break
03/17/03
Genes, cognition and emotion [abstract]
Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D., Chief, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch,
IRP, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
03/24/03
Visuospatial and Numerical Cognitive Deficits in the Chromosome 22q11.2
Deletion Syndrome [abstract]
Tony Simon, Children's Hospital, Philadelphia
03/31/03
Cell assemblies in the hippocampus
Gyorgy Buzsaki, Neuroscience Center, Rutgers University
04/07/03
Hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex and spatial memory in monkeys
[abstract]
Ludise Malkova, Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown University
04/14/03
Immune molecule signaling in the CNS in several
in vivo models
Miles Herkenham, Section on Functional Neuroanatomy,
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation, National Institute of
Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
04/21/03
Physiological and Psychological Comparisons of Poor and Expert Readers
Barbara Given, Sharmila Chari, and Julie Ennis, Literacy Research Projects,
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University and Paul
Rapp, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Drexel University College
of Medicine
04/28/03
Early diagnosis of autism
Philip Teitelbaum, Psychology Department, University of Florida-Gainsville