Boston-NeuroTalks Calendar 3.0

The Future of the Field: A panel discussion with Jim DiCarlo (MIT), Randy Buckner (FAS/Psychology), and Ken Nakayama (FAS/Psychology)

Organized by Harvard Mind, Brain and Behavior Graduate Student Committee.

4th Annual Tufts Neuroscience Symposium & William Shucart Lecture

* Manzar Ashtari (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia). The human visual
cortex responses to retinal gene therapy.

* Mark Bear (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Cortical synaptic
plasticity: From Amblyopia to Autism.

* Michael Meaney (McGill University). Environmental epigenetics and
familial transmission.

* Miguel Nicolelis (Duke University Medical Center). Computing with
neural ensembles to liberate brain activity from the body's physical limits.

Registration required: jessica.f.patrick@gmail.com

· Kent Kiehl (Assoc Prof of Psychology, University of New Mexico).

· Helen Mayberg (Prof of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sci, and Neurology, Emory University).

· Steve Hyman (Director, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute).

· Lee Bailey, Esq. (Trial Lawyer & Legal Expert)

Four experts discuss the past, present and future impact of brain science in the courtroom with Judith G. Edersheim, JD, MD and Bruce H. Price, MD, co-directors of the MGH Center for Law, Brain & Behavior.

Sascha du Lac (Salk Institute)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/message/7152

Framing the Future of MBE:
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Conference

Wednesday October 19th 2011
ASKWITH HALL 5:30 – 6:15pm
Reception to follow, Larsen 214, 6:15 –7:00 pm

Gigi Luk, Kathleen H. Corriveau, Peter Blake, Priya Kalra, Yvonne Domings and Carlo Cerruti on bilingualism and cognition, the evolutionary roots of altruism, bias and perception, social cues and learning, technology and learning disabilities, and memory systems.

Hosted by the Mind, Brain, & Education Student Association at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

MIT Biological Engineering Seminar Series


Michael Levene (Yale University)
Hosted by Alan Jasanoff

http://web.mit.edu/be/news/seminars.shtml

Emilio Bizzi, Institute Professor, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human Behavior, MIT

Sydney Brenner, Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center, Salk Institute

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, MIT

Marvin Minsky, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Emeritus, MIT

Barbara Partee, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Patrick H. Winston, Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, MIT

Registration is open online at http://mit150.mit.edu/symposia/brains-minds-machines
Free to MIT faculty, staff and students; nominal registration fee for non-MIT attendees

In their conference, they will discuss how the mechanisms of neuronal plasticity may be at the basis, not only of learning and memory, but also of the establishment of the unconscious as explored by the psychoanalytical theory. They will further explore the mind-body connection in a way that opens novel perspectives to understand the dialogue between bodily states and neuronal traces of experience, which opens to personal freedom, identity and change.