Day 1: Thursday, June 11, 1998
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, McGovern Auditorium
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration |
The Big Picture |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Joseph Coyle, Chair of the Consolidated Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
Technology |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Brain Imaging Perry Renshaw, Director, Brain Imaging Center McLean Hospital |
| 9:30 a.m. | Microscopic Brain Imaging Peter Lansbury, Neurobiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| 10:00 a.m. | Imaging Substance Abuse in the Brain Scott Lukas, Director, Behavioral Psychopharmcology Research Laboratory, McLean Hospital |
| 10:30 a.m. | BREAK |
| 11:00 a.m. | Gene Therapy Xandra Breakefield, Neurogeneticist, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 11:30 a.m. | Genomics Eric Lander, Director, Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research |
| 12:30 p.m. | Luncheon Speaker "How the Mind Works" Steven Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
How The Brain Works Normally | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Development of the Brain and Spinal Cord Hazel Sive, Associate Member, Whitehead Institute |
| 2:30 p.m. | Smell Andrew Chess, Associate Member, Whitehead Institute |
| 3:00 p.m. | BREAK |
| 3:30 p.m. | Alzheimer's Disease Dennis Selkoe, Brigham & Women's Hospital |
| 4:00 p.m. | Emotional Development Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Director of Neuropsychology, Brain Imaging Center, McLean Hospital |
| 6:15 p.m. | Cocktail ReceptionHarvard Club 374 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. |
Day 2: Friday, June 12, 1998
Massachusetts General Hospital
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration |
What Goes Wrong? | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Ann Graybiel, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
What Happens When the Brain Function Goes Awry? | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Movement Disorders (Overview) Anne Young, Chief of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 9:30 a.m. | Parkinson's Disease Mahlon Delong, Emory University |
| 10:00 a.m. | Huntington's Disease James Gusella, Director, Molecular Neurogenetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 10:30 a.m. | Schizophrenia Francine Benes, Director, Laboratory for Structural Neuroscience, McLean Hospital |
| 12:00 a.m. | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease) Robert Brown, Director, Day Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 11:30 a.m. | Molecular Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Rudolph Tanzi, Director, Genetics and Aging Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 12:30 p.m. | Luncheon Speaker Steven Hyman, Director, National Institute of Mental Health |
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Therapeutics: Treatments, Prevention, New Approaches | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Pallidotomy Rees Cosgrove, Director, Movement Disorders Center, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 2:30 p.m. | Migraines Michael Moskowitz, Director, Stroke and Neurovascular Regulation, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 3:00 p.m. | Xenotransplantation Ole Isacson, Director, Neuroregeneration Laboratory, McLean Hospital |
| 3:30 p.m. | Psychopharmacology Bruce Cohen, President and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, McLean Hospital |
| 4:00 p.m. | Stroke Recovery Seth Finkelstein, Director, CNS Growth Factor Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital |