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School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences - The University of Texas at Dallas

BrainHealth Series


 

BrainHealth Frontiers Series BrainHealth Lecture Series

 

 

 

 

 

 

BrainHealth Frontiers Series

 

Mark your calendars and come join us for this semester's BrainHealth Frontiers Series.  All presentations will be held in the International Reception Hall at 12:00-1:00pm, unless noted otherwise. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Tiyunna Johnson at
Tiyunna.Johnson@utdallas.edu
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FALL 2012

Date

Speaker

Title

Oct 17

Rob Rennaker, PhD

Closing the Loop: Targeted Plasticity for the Treatment of Brain Injuries
Oct 24 Daniel Yang, PhD Explaining the Link Between Autistic Traits and Ingroup Relationships: The Social-Acting Hypothesis
Oct 31 Carol Tamminga, MD Psychosis as a Learning and Memory Disorder
Nov 14 Gerri Hanten, PhD Cognition and Resilience in Acute Risk Youth: Preliminary Studies
Nov 28 Chandramallika Basak, PhD Different Slopes for Different Strokes: Effective Strategies, Transfer and Biomarkers of Complex Skill Acquisition
Dec 7 Deanna Wallace-Black, PhD The Role of Striatal and Prefrontal Cortical Dopamine in Food Choice and Health Perception

 

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BrainHealth Lecture Series

 

Mark your calendars and come join us for this semester's BrainHealth Lecture Series.  All presentations will be held at the Center for BrainHealth, 2200 W. Mockingbird Lane in Dallas. Reception begins at 6:15pm, and lecture begins at 7:00pm. The price is $35 for a single ticket to one lecture purchased in advance and $45 for a ticket at the door. A series pass (single ticket to all four lectures) is $130.

 

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SPRING 2012

Date

Speaker

Title

Feb 7

Eric Nestler, MD, PhD

The Biology of Addiction
Feb 14

Helen Fisher, PhD

The Drive to Love and Who We Choose

Feb 21

Robert Sapolsky, PhD

Stress and the Brain
Feb 28 Ed Boyden, PhD Controlling the Brain With Light: New Technologies for Repairing Neural Circuits

 

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