BrainBlog

Summer Session begins next week for me. I am teaching several courses that I much enjoy: Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience. Let the sun shine and the coffee flow!

The INS conference has opened. Registration Desks and morning CE programs ongoing.

I have two favorite parts of any INS conference: The agora of poster sessions and The Birch Lecture (named for Herbert Birch). The Benton and - now - the Satz Awards are nostalgic reminders. Finally, Plenary C looks interesting: "Generation of New Hippocampal Neurons in the Adult Brain: Implications for Mental Health", as does Invited Symposium 3: "Global Neuroscience: Impact of Culture, Resources, and Education". I have always tracked the The Birch Lecture. Herbert G. Birch was, from all accounts, a wonderful person and an extraordinary teacher. When I was an undergraduate student, I received mentoring in developmental biopsychology from several of his colleagues and students (Susan Fleischer, Tina Moreau, and Gerald Turkewitz). I worked as a student with rat models of perinatal malnutrition, which was a methodological offshoot of his long interest in malnutrition and poverty. My MA thesis was based on his groundbreaking work exploring neonatal lateralization. He...

Just a few weeks until the Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS). The conference will take place in Midtown Manhattan.

An excellent resource from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Dr. Claudia Krebs: "Functional Neuroanatomy" link

Creating about 20 minutes of lecture content using the book by Hogancamp and Shellen and the documentary film (not the recent Hollywood movie).

Spring semester 2019 starts on Monday.