Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar: 2013 Series
All Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars are held in at 10 am in the Sergievsky Center Conference Room on the 19th floor of the Presbyterian Hospital Building on the Columbia University Medical Center Campus. For more information contact Helena Blumen: hmb2131@columbia.edu.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 9/13/2012 | James Sumowski | Kessler Foundation Research Center | Brain reserve and cognitive reserve independently and differentially protect against disease-related cognitive decline in MS patients |
| 9/27/2012 | Ian Robertson | Trinity College Dublin, Institute of Neuroscience | A noradrenergic theory of cognitive reserve |
| 10/11/2012 | Jamie Hamilton | Taub Institute, CUMC | TBA |
| 10/18/2012 | Adam Brickman | Taub Institute, CUMC | White matter hyperintensities from bedside to deathbed |
| 10/25/2012 | Lyndsey Collins-Praino | Taub Institute, CUMC | White matter vulnerability in Alzheimer's Disease: The role of neuroinflammation |
| 11/01/2012 | Qolamreza Razlighi | Taub Institute, CUMC | Image processing: Region based spatial normalization |
| 11/15/2012 | Robert Fieo | Taub Institute, CUMC | Cognitively stimulating activities as an index of cognitive reserve: How to quantify? |
| 11/29/2012 | Laura Zahodne | Taub Institute, CUMC | TBA |
| 12/06/2012 | Yunglin Gazes | Taub Institute, CUMC | Reference abilities and white matter microstructure |
| 12/20/2012 | Anna MacKay-Brandt | Taub Institute, CUMC | Effects of cardiovascular health on cognition in aging |
| 1/24/2013 | Iris Asllani | Columbia University Radiology Department | Functional MRI in clinical research: Meeting the demands for increased speed, resolution, and sensitivity |
| 2/7/2013 | Babak Ardekani | NYU Psychiatry | Automated corpus callosum segmentation on 3D MRI scans: Applications to Alzheimer's disease and the study of sexual dimorphism in the human brain |
| 2/14/2013 | Stephanie Cosentino | Taub Institute, CUMC | Memory awareness in Alzheimer's disease |
| 2/21/2013 | Brian Rakitin | Taub Institute, CUMC | Genetic variability in Parkinson's disease-related interval timing dysfunction |
| 2/28/2013 | Meagan Farrell | Taub Institute, CUMC | Language processes in healthy aging |
| 3/7/2013 | Janet Metcalfe | Columbia University, Psychology Department | Metacognition and control in human learning and memory |
| 3/14/2013 | Lyndsey Collins-Praino | Taub Institute, CUMC | Abnormal protein aggregates and mechanisms of cognitive change |
| 3/21/2013 | Jeremy Silverman | Mount Sinai School of Medicine | Towards a model for successful cognitive aging |
| 4/4/2013 | Ted Huey | Taub Institute, CUMC | Integrating genetics and cognitive/clinical neuroscience |
| 4/11/2013 | Qolamreza Razlighi | Taub Institute, CUMC | Quantification of the human brain morphology |
| 4/18/2013 | Helena Blumen | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | General topic: The theoretical and applied value of collaborative memory research in young and old |
| 4/25/2013 | Bharat Biswal | New Jersey Institute of Technology | General topic: Mapping brain activity |
Columbia University
University Seminar on Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience (2012-2013)
Chairs - Yaakov Stern and Herb Terrace
All meetings are held at 4PM. in the Faculty House on the
Morningside Campus.
For directions to the Faculty House see:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/fachouse/directions.html
For information please contact Greg Jensen (belarius@gmail.com).
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Topic |
| September 20, 2012 | Morten Christiansen | Cornell University | Language as Shaped by the Brain |
| October 25, 2012 | Ian Robertson | Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland | The Neuroscience of the Winner Effect |
| November 29, 2012 | Barbara Shinn-Cunningham | Boston University | TBA |
| December 13, 2012 | Michael Goldberg | New York State Psychiatric Institute | Attention and Arousal in the Monkey Parietal Cortex |
| January 24, 2013 | Mark Changizi | Director of Human Cognition, 2AI Labs | Nature-Harnessing in Writing, Music and Speech |
| February 21, 2013 | Art Wingfield; joint with Language Seminar | Brandeis University | TBA |
| March 28, 2013 | Paul Sajda | TBA | TBA |
| April 25, 2013 | Steve Fleming | NYU | TBA |