Alzheimer's Disease

Sun, May 19, 2013 - 10:29am

May

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1 12:00pm - 01:00pm Christian Langkammer - Insights into tissue composition and microstructure by postmortem MRI 02:00pm - 03:00pm Gabrielle Liverant - Relations among Smoking, Anhedonia, and Reward Learning in Unipolar Sepression 02:30pm - 03:30pm Dima Amso - The Utility of Visual Attention: Evidence from Typical and Atypical Development	2 05:00pm The role of fMRI in Cognitive Science: A discussion with Rebecca Saxe and Brian Scholl 06:00pm - 07:00pm Steven Hassan - Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers	3 01:00pm - 02:00pm David Osher - Function Follows Form: How Connectivity Patterns Govern Neural Responses 04:00pm - 05:00pm Linda Van Aelst - The role of G proteins in neuronal development and plasticity	4	5
6 10:00am - 11:00am Retsina Meyer - Neurobiologically-motivated treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in an animal model	7 12:00pm - 01:00pm Leon Bergen - The lexicon in learning and pragmatic inference 04:30pm - 06:00pm Rosemary Varley - Language and Thought: evidence from severe aphasia	8 08:30am - 05:30pm 2013 McGovern Institute Symposium: NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT 12:00pm - 01:00pm Chongzhao Ran - Optical Imaging of Amyloidosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Brown Adipose Tissue	9	10	11	12
13 12:00pm - 01:00pm Joshua Buckholtz - The Causal Biology of Antisocial Behavior 12:00pm - 01:00pm Brian Kangas - Touchscreen Technology and the Preclinical Pharmacology of Complex Behavior 05:00pm - 06:30pm MIT Workshop: Transforming Science Coverage in the General Media	14 12:00pm - 01:00pm Laura Schulz's Infant and Childhood Cognition class 04:00pm - 05:00pm Joshua Sanes - Wiring up the retina 04:00pm - 05:00pm Suzanne Corkin - The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.	15 06:00pm - 07:00pm Lawrence Fitzgerald - Opportunities and Challenges in Drug Discovery for Autism Spectrum Disorders	16 04:00pm - 05:00pm Paul Greengard - Understanding the Molecular Basis of Major Depressive Disorder: A Work in Progress	17 10:30am - 12:00pm Oded Ghitza - Speech perception, cortical theta oscillations and auditory channel capacity	18	19
20 01:00pm - 02:00pm Chia-huei Tseng-Perceptual grouping in visual search	21 02:00pm - 03:00pm Krista Ehinger - Visual Features for Scene Recognition and Reorientation	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29 02:00pm - 03:00pm Amanda Tarullo - Developmental Consequences of Early Deprivation: Neural Function, Diurnal Cortisol Activity, and Social Behavior in Post-institutionalized Children	30	31

Time:

Wed, Mar 13, 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Place:

149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, Room A

Gilbert Di Paolo (Columbia University Medical Center)

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Time:

Thu, Mar 7, 2013 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Place:

150 South Huntington Avenue, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, Room 11B-48C (11th floor)

Jessica Wong (University of Chicago)

Time:

Thu, Feb 14, 2013 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Place:

4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, Bray Room

Rudy Tanzi (Harvard Medical School)

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Time:

Wed, Dec 12, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

149 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, Seminar room 2204

David Salat, Ph.D. (MGH Martinos Center)

Abstract:

Time:

Fri, Jul 27, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

31 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, MIT 68-121

Saskia M. van der Vies
Department of Pathology, Neurosciences Campus Amsterdam VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Abstract:

Time:

Fri, Apr 20, 2012 - 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Place:

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, Bray Room

Dr. Takaomi C. Saido of RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

Abstract:

Transgenic mice overexpressing amyloid precursor protein (APP) have made tremendous contributions to the experimental understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathophysiology. These 1st generation models however suffer from the following intrinsic problems.

Time:

Wed, Apr 18, 2012 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Place:

220 Longwood Ave Boston, MA 02115, Goldenson Building 122

Soyon Hong (Program in Neuroscience Dissertation Defense Seminar; Dennis Selkoe,
Advisor)

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Time:

Tue, Mar 13, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, Room 132

Malgorzata Marjanska (University of Minnesota)

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Time:

Wed, Feb 29, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Place:

149 13th St, Charlestown Navy Yard, Room CNY2204

Keith A. Johnson, M.D.
Radiology and Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, MGH

Abstract:

Time:

Thu, May 5, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Place:

150 S Huntington Ave, Boston, Room B11-48C

Bradford Dickerson, MD,
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital

Brad has an impressive research program, and his application of various imaging methods to patient populations (Mild Cognitive
Impairment, Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal diseases, etc) is of
particular relevance to investigators here at the VA.

http://vabostonimaging.org/index.php?title=File:VANRC_SpeakerSchedule_20...

Boston-NeuroTalks Calendar 3.0

May

Keywords:

Gilbert Di Paolo - A Lipid-Centric and Cell Biological View of Alzheimer's Disease: Lessons from Lipidomics

Jessica Wong - Metamemory in Older Adults and Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

Rudy Tanzi - New Insights on Alzheimer's Disease from Genetics

David Salat - Deterioration of Structural Connectivity in the Aging Brain

Saskia M. van der Vies - Significance of IRAK4 signalling for Aβ removal and cytokine production during early stages of Alzheimer’s disease pathology

Takaomi Saido - A new mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: Distinguishing facts from artifacts

Soyon Hong - robing the in vivo economy of amyloid beta-protein during the development of Alzheimer's disease-type pathology

Malgorzata Marjanska - High Field MRI and MRS: Technical development and its application in Alzheimer's Disease

Keith Johnson - Molecular, structural and functional imaging in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

Brad Dickerson - New neuroimaging approaches to identify focal lesions in neurodegenerative disorders

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