Previous Neuroscience Research Seminars
2003
“Stacking the Building Blocks to a Male Brain”
Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD
Department of Physiology; University of Maryland, Baltimore
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“The Development of New Treatments for Brain Tumors”
Dr. Alessandro Olivi
Department of Neurosurgery; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2004
“The Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Addiction”
Dr. Julie A. Blendy
Department of Pharmacology; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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“Targeted Delivery of Neuroprotective Agents Using Tetanus Toxin C Fragment”
Dr. Christopher C. Matthews
Department of Neurology; University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore;
VA Medical Center in Baltimore
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“Drug Addiction in the Rat Brain”
Dr. Anne Marie Brady (a SMCM alumna)
Postdoctoral Fellow; Albany Medical College
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“Your Brain on Nicotine: Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors”
Dr. David C. Perry
Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology; the George Washington University Medical Center
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“Neurochemical Interactions in an Animal Model of Parkinsonian Tremor”
Dr. John D. Salamone
Departments of Psychology and Behavioral Neurosciences; University of Connecticut
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“The NC (Ca-ATP) channel - A new player in cell death in CNS ischemia”
Dr. Marc Simard
Departments of Neurosurgery, Physiology, and Pathology; University of Maryland School of Medicine
2005
“The Neurobiology of Social Defeat in Hamsters”
Dr. Matthew Cooper
Postdoctoral Fellow; Georgia State University
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“Endogenous Opioids and Neural Function”
Dr. Brian M. Cox
Department of Pharmacology; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
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“The Perception of Auditory Illusions in Birds and Mammals”
Dr. Micheal Dent (a SMCM alumna)
Department of Psychology; University of Buffalo
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“Cortical and Sub-cortical Interactions as They Relate to Attention and Psychosis”
Dr. John Bruno
Department of Psychology; the Ohio State University
2006
“Emotional Arousal and Enhanced Memory: Understanding the Interactions between Peripheral Autonomic Processes and Central Limbic Structures”
Dr. Cedric Williams
Department of Psychology; University of Virginia
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“Glial Modulation of Learning and Memory”
Amy Chess (a SMCM alumna)
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Dartmouth College
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"Investigating Cognitive Maps in the Human Brain”
Amy Shelton
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; John Hopkins University
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"Neurochemical Bases for the Beneficial Effects of Exercise on Brain Function”
Phil Holmes
Department of Psychology and Institute for Behavioral Research Fellow; University of Georgia
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“Prefrontal Cortical, Striatal, and Thalamic Circuits Mediating Executive Functions”
Stan Floresco
Department of Psychology; University of British Columbia
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“Neuroergonomics: Using Neuroimaging to Improve Cockpit Design”
Jeff Grubb
Naval Aerospace Experimental Psychologist; Naval Air Systems Command at NAS Patuxent River
2007
Dr. Anna Kenny
(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
"The Presence of Absence: Habenular Regulation of Dopamine Neurons and the Encoding of Negative Outcomes”
Dr. Paul Shepard
(University of Maryland Baltimore)
"Can We Model Schizophrenia in a Rat"
Dr. Patricio O’Donnell
(University of Maryland Baltimore)
"Aging, Culture and Cogntion"
Denise Park, PhD
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Environmentally-induced Progressive Parkinson Disease in Rodents"
Dr. Paul J. Yarowsky
(University of Maryland School of Medicine)
2008
“Environmental Enrichment Reverses Learning and Molecular Deficits Induced by Lean Neurotoxicity"
Dr. Tomas R. Guilarte
(Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
“Getting to the Heart of the Matter: The Remarkable Relationship Between Affective Disorders and Cardiovascular Diseases”
Dr. Gretchen N. Neigh
(Emory University School of Medicine)