Both national and international data on the rates and
morbidity of major depression show that it is a disabiling
disorder with high and possibly increasing prevalance.
Women in their child-bearing years are the highest risk
group .The offspring of depressed parents are especially
vulnerable. Depression transmits across the generations and
is recurrent in individuals from childhood to
adulthood..This talk will review the latest epidemiologic
data on depression and the emerging data on evidence based
treatments..

Myrna Weissman received her Ph.D. in chronic disease
epidemiology from Yale University and is currently
Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry at the Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons and School of
Public Health. She is also Chief of the Department in
Clinical-Genetic Epidemiology at the New York State
Psychiatric Institute. Considered a world leader in women’s
health, Dr. Weissman was elected to the National Academy of
Sciences’ Institute of Medicine in 1996.  

Dr. Weissman is a pioneer in the underexplored field of
women’s psychiatric health and has led landmark studies of
the epidemiology of depression and anxiety disorders. This
work led her to both basic research in the genetics of
psychiatric disease, and the broader questions involved in
prevention and treatment of these often underappreciated
and poorly understood disorders. Dr. Weissman has 13 books
and monographs, over 350 research papers, and has has
served on 25 editorial boards. She has worked with the
National Academy of Sciences, the World Health
Organization, the World Psychiatric Association, the
American Suicide Foundation, the National Institute of
Mental Health, and many other organizations to bring public
attention and resources to these mental health problems.  

(Limited seating: To reserve, provide full contact
information at nymeetings@nyas.org or 212-838-0230 ext.
322) 

Spons: SLP Research Colloquium at NYU-Spring 2002 
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 
NYU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 
Thursdays 100 Washington Sq, East (Main Bldg-rm. 804) 
For Credit, sign up for E34.2421.01 
For information call Jeanette Pitre: 212.998.5230 

 Spons: SLP Research Colloquium at NYU-Spring 2002 
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 
NYU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 
Thursdays 100 Washington Sq, East (Main Bldg-rm. 804) 
For Credit, sign up for E34.2421.01 
For information call Jeanette Pitre: 212.998.5230  

Spons: SLP Research Colloquium at NYU-Spring 2002 
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 
NYU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 
Thursdays 100 Washington Sq, East (Main Bldg-rm. 804) 
For Credit, sign up for E34.2421.01 
For information call Jeanette Pitre: 212.998.5230 

Spons: SLP Research Colloquium at NYU-Spring 2002 
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 
NYU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 
Thursdays 100 Washington Sq, East (Main Bldg-rm. 804) 
For Credit, sign up for E34.2421.01 
For information call Jeanette Pitre: 212.998.5230 

Spons: SLP Research Colloquium at NYU-Spring 2002 
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 
NYU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 
Thursdays 100 Washington Sq, East (Main Bldg-rm. 804) 
For Credit, sign up for E34.2421.01 
For information call Jeanette Pitre: 212.998.5230 

Spons: SLP Research Colloquium at NYU-Spring 2002 
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 
NYU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 
Thursdays 100 Washington Sq, East (Main Bldg-rm. 804) 
For Credit, sign up for E34.2421.01 
For information call Jeanette Pitre: 212.998.5230 

Monday, 12:30pm

Location: NYU, 4 Washington Place (Meyer Building)
Room 815

Abstract 
The study of navigation-related spatial signals began with
the work of John O'Keefe and his colleagues. These
investigators were interested in how to characterize the
nature of hippocampal function. To study this, they
recorded from single cells in the rat hippocampus as the
rats traveled freely through an environment. What they
discovered was that many of the cells showed
location-specific firing, so that any one cell was active
only when the animal was in one, circumscribed region of
space. Each cell had its own preferred region, so that,
together, the set of hippocampal cell firing fields covered
the whole environment. O'Keefe and colleagues called these
cells Place Cells. The discovery of hippocampal Place
Cells prompted the idea that perhaps the main role of the
hippocampus was to form a 'cognitive map' of the animal's
environment. This idea was published in a landmark book
entitled "The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map", by O'Keefe
and Nadel, 1978.
Subsequent work on these hippocampal cells has
revealed that they do, indeed, show a remarkable ability to
somehow track the animal's position in space, as is
compatible with the cognitive mapping idea. However, there
have also been numerous observations suggesting that these
cells are not, in fact, part of a dedicated mapping system.
Part of this evidence comes from observations which
indicate that the cells' behavior does not conform to
theoretical expectations for how a neural network of this
kind must work. In addition, numerous studies have shown
that the cells also readily code for non-spatial variables.
Since the original discovery of Place Cells in the
hippocampus proper, cells with interesting spatial firing
characteristics have been discovered in several additional
components of the rat limbic system. As will be discussed,
the cells in some of these other areas may be better
candidates for the 'cognitive map'. In particular, a type
of cell in the subicular component of the hippocampal
formation appears to meet many of the theoretical
requirements necessary for the mapping system originally
envisioned by O'Keefe and Nadel. The existence of these
extra-hippocampal spatial cells opens the possibility that
the spatial characteristics evident in the hippocampal
cells may be simply transmitted to the hippocampus from
these other areas. This idea provides for a possible
reconciliation between the view that the hippocampus is a
cognitive map, and the view that the hippocampus plays a
broader role in the memory for events and episodes.
Specifically, it may be that the output from the
extra-hippocampal mapping regions is transmitted to the
hippocampus, along with information about many other
aspects of the environment. Thus, the hippocampal
representation of an event will always, necessarily,
include information about where the event took place, but
will also include many other contextual and sensory
components of the situation.
Reference List
[1] Sharp PE (1999) Complimentary roles for hippocampal
versus subicular/entorhinal place cells in coding Place,
Context and Events. Hippocampus 9:432-443
[2] Sharp PE (1999) Subicular place cells expand or
contract their spatial firing pattern to fit the size of
the environment in an open field but not in the presence of
barriers: Comparison with hippocampal place cells. Behav.
Neurosci. 113:643-662.


for more information on the CNS Colloquia, contact
pato.huerta@nyu.edu
CNS / NYU * 4 Washington Pl, Room 809 * New York, NY
10003-6621 * (212) 998-7780

Narciso Rosario
Center for Neural Science
New York University
Meyer Hall
4 Washington Place
New York, New York 10003

Spons: SLP Research Colloquium at NYU-Spring 2002 
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 
NYU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 
Thursdays 100 Washington Sq, East (Main Bldg-rm. 804) 
For Credit, sign up for E34.2421.01 
For information call Jeanette Pitre: 212.998.5230 

12 Noon to 4 PM

Contact: Rolland S. Parker, Ph.D. 212-947-7111 voice mail box328, 50 West 96th St. (9C), NY, NY 10025.

Spons: SLP Research Colloquium at NYU-Spring 2002 
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 
NYU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 
Thursdays 100 Washington Sq, East (Main Bldg-rm. 804) 
For Credit, sign up for E34.2421.01 
For information call Jeanette Pitre: 212.998.5230 

5/4/02 Sat

8:00-4:30 

NEW YORK NEUROPSYCHOLOGY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

The Violent Brain: Advances in Forensic Neuroscience               

St. Vincent's Hospital, Cronin 10 Auditorium, 153 West 11th Street, NYC

There is scientific evidence that brain functions and other neurobiological factors play an important underlying role in the expression of violent behavior. The purpose of this conference is to present some recent scientific findings from neurobiological research in violence and some of the clinical techniques used for assessment of brain functions in criminal forensic cases. We will address many of the issues confronting the scientist, clinician, and attorney working in the criminal forensic setting.

Program Details

Contact Person:   Katherine Kotopoulos: kkotopoulos@yahoo.com

GRAND ROUNDS, NY State Psychiatric Institute. "The Psychophysics & Physiology of Attention" Michael E. Goldberg, M.D. David Mahoney Professor of Brain & Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. 
1st floor auditorium, "new" PI bldg., Riverside Drive & 168th St., New York City

The Self: From Soul to Brain                  NYAS conference Some of the world’s leading neuroscientists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and others assess the significance of
rapidly developing brain science for our conceptions of self, individuality, and personhood. The proceedings of this conference will be published in the Annals. Each living creature exists as a unit, a self. Understanding the self, then, should be a major goal of scientific research.
This conference will take stock of current understanding, and consider future directions for scientific research on the self be adequate to our broader understanding, as reflected through philosophical, theological and social scientific perspectives. This meeting creates a
multidisciplinary context in which to approach these research issues and fosters dialogue among many, sometimes competing, perspectives. Conference Organizer: Joseph LeDoux, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York Session Topics and Speakers:
Perspectives on the Self Patricia Churchland, University of California, San Diego; Daniel Schacter, Harvard University; Eric Kandel, Columbia University; Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary; Alexandre Mauron, University of Geneva Medical School; Terrence Sejnowski, The Salk Institute; Daniel Dennett, Tufts University Psycho-Social Aspects of
Self Marc Hauser, Harvard University; Naomi Quinn, Duke University; Michael Lewis, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Hazel Markus, Stanford University; Daniel Wegner and Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard University Self and Brain Francesca Happe, King's College, London; Antonio Damasio, University of Iowa; Rodolfo Llinas, New York University; Michael Gazzaniga,Dartmouth College; Joseph LeDoux, New York University.ww.nyas.org; Location: Stern Auditorium, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC

Dr. Robert Ramez Ann Whitney Olin Professor, Department of Psychology, Barnard College "The Sound of 'Hello!' or, The Role of Phonetic Detail in Individual Identification." Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences Room 7102,CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016 
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Speechandhearing/events/colloquium.htm

GRAND ROUNDS, NY State Psychiatric Institute. William Byne, M.D. TOPIC: pndg; however, Dr. Byne's research includes subcortical [thalamic, hypothalamic] anatomy & function relevant to schizophrenia, sexual dimorphism, etc. 
1st floor auditorium, "new" PI bldg., Riverside Drive & 168th St., New York City 

ACADEMY OF APHASIA ANNUAL MTG, at CUNY Graduate Center, 34th Street & Fifth Avenue. Includes special session dedicated to Harold Goodglass, Platform Sessions, and Poster Sessions. NOTE: ends early on Oct. 22, allowing ample time to attend full NYNG Student Fair that evening. Open to Academy members ($230), non-members ($260), and students ($100) [includes sandwich lunch Sunday]. Program details, registration:
http://www.academyofaphasia.org/ Questions re the Academy of Aphasia:
contact@academyofaphasia.org Luci Varian, Adminstrative Assistant for the Academy of Aphasia East Bay Institute for Research and Education 150 Muir Road (126-s) Martinez, CA 94553 fax: 925-372-2553 phone: 925-372-2670 

SPECIAL EVENT:          

New York Neuropsychology Group Student Fair 

_{Featuring  presentation by winner of NYNG Award for Student Research. The New York Academy of Sciences 2 East 63rd Street, New York City We are happy to renew our annual invitation for neuropsychology  students, and all students interested in neuropsychology to meet with each other and with us at a FREE buffet. This year, listen to some experienced neuropsychologists (NYNG Board members) describe some possible neuropsychology career paths: Private Practice (Jeanette Wasserstein) Pharmacological Research (Paul Ramirez) Psychotherapy with a Rehab Population (Alizah Brozgold); and listen to some representatives of training programs describe opportunities for training at their institutions. Then meet and talk with them, informally. We invite students to
join NYNG (student dues $10 per year), but this Student Fair is open to all students, members & non-members. No registration or reservation necessary. Please share this invitation with others! Information about NYNG (including Calendar of local NYNG and non-NYNG events): www.NYNG.org}

CONTACT: flefever@yahoo.com or www.NYNG.org ... Dr. LeFever 845-786-4110
NY Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd St., NYC....(212) 838-0230

John Hogan, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, St. John's University, NY. People and Places in the History of Psychology: An Idiosyncratic Tour.  This talk and slide show presentation examines some rarely discussed areas in the history of psychology including the personal life of G. Stanley Hall, the missing Munsterberg portrait, the largely-forgotten contributions of June Downey, and the location of Titchener's brain.  Free of charge and open to the public. Students are encouraged to attend. 6pm Dinner by Reservation. Please call (212-838-0230 ext. 426). The New York Academy of Sciences Psychology Forum At 2 East 63rd Street (off 5th Avenue)

Professor Glenis Long Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences "What can Otoacoustic Emissions and Cochlear Fine Structure tell us about the way the Ear works." Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences Room 7102 CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016.
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Speechandhearing/events/colloquium.htm

Dr. Jungmee Lee Post-doc/Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences. "Discrimination of Modulation Rate and Depth: Effect of Duration." Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016. 
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Speechandhearing/events/colloquium.htm

Associate Professor Shondel Nero School of Education, St. John's University.
"Orality and Literacy among Caribbean Creole English Speakers." Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences Room 7102, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016.
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Speechandhearing/events/colloquium.htm

Emotions Inside Out: 130 Years after Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. 

NYAS conference. A fresh look at an old theory that is still the reference point for research into emotions and facial expression. The proceedings of this conference will be
published in the Annals. This conference will update and deepen our understanding of the emotional life of animals, the role of emotional communication in human development, and the emotional underpinnings of normal and pathological social behavior. Organized by Paul
Ekman, Joe Campos, Richard Davidson, and Frans de Waal. Session Topics and Speakers:Animal Communication- Frans B.M. de Waal and Lisa Parr, Emory University; Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney, University of Pennsylvania. Development of Emotion-Joseph Campos, University of California, Berkeley; Linda A. Camras, DePaul University; Laura L. Carstensen, Stanford University Expression of Emotion Paul Ekman, University of
California, San Francisco; Dacher Keltner, University of California, Berkeley; Jo-Anne
Bachorowski, Vanderbilt University. Physiology of Emotion Richard J. Davidson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; David G. Amaral, University of California, Davis; Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley.        <www.NYAS.org> Contact: conference@nyas.org (212) 838-0230
Location: The Rockefeller University, New York City

SPECIAL EVENT: NYNG's Annual "Supper Meeting" with the Psychology Section of the
New York Academy of Sciences

Evolutionary Neuroanatomy and Schizophrenia 

Robert M Bilder, PhD, ABPP;  Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research; 
Hillside Hospital Division of North Shore - Long Island Jewish Healthy System; Albert Einstein College of Medicine; NYU School of
Medicine;and Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, UCLA

Comparative anatomic and modern cytoarchitectonic studies support the
phylogenetic emergence of a duality in the anatomic organization of the human brain that serves an autoregulatory function by monitoring and adjusting the stability and plasticity of activation states with respect to environmental exigencies and internally generated plans.
Dysfunctions in different components of these systems are hypothesized to underlie different pathophysiological processes, and to mediate the effects of treatments in schizophrenia. This hypothesis will be reviewed with supporting data from neuropsychological, structural and functional neuroimaging, and genomic studies. 

Lecture is free and open to all; optional supper  requires advance reservation and payment. (Reduced fee for students) New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street, New York City

Full day

"Personality, Family, and Psychiatric Consquences of Traumatic Brain Injury."   

Sponsored by the New York Academy of Traumatic Brain Injury. CALL FOR PAPERS.  To be held at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University. Please send by mail or emaill: Your name, degree, academic affiliation or location of office practice or other affiliation. Title of paper, brief abstract, and all contact
information: Your preferred mailing address, your preferred telephone (s), email address; fax number. Contact: Rolland S. Parker, Ph.D. 50 West 96th St., (9C) NY NY 10025; rsp2@nyu.edu (212-947-7111 voicemail box 328 Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University.

Symposium on Ethics and The Tudor Study Implications for Research in Stuttering.

Mary Tudor, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, supervised by Wendell Johnson, conducted a study in 1939 to test the diagnosogenic theory of stuttering. They examined effect of verbal labeling on the frequency of disfluency in both stuttering and fluent children. That they were allegedly able to induce stuttering in normally fluent children supported the hypothesis and raised serious ethical concerns which have been recently reported widely in the media. http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Speechandhearing/events/.
The Graduate Center of CUNY Elebash Recital Hall 365 Fifth Avenue