NEW YORK NEUROPSYCHOLOGY GROUP

2003 ARCHIVES OF EVENTS 

JANUARY 2003                 2003
Jan 27

Monday 12:30 pm

NYU Neuroscience Colloquium

"Prefrontal cortex: Categories,
concepts, and cognitive control"

Earl K. Miller
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Center for Neural Science (CNS): 
Meyer Building, Room 122 
4 Washington Place 
: (212) 998-7780
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/
Feb 7
3:15-4:15 pm
Dr. Theresa Hnath-Chisolm, Associate  Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida
Colloquium: "Context-Effects and Self
Perception of Speech Understanding in Individuals with Adult-Onset Hearing Loss" 

Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences, Room 7303
(SAPL Lab), CUNY Graduate Center 
365 Fifth Avenue 
New York, New York 10016 
Room 7102 

Tel: 212-817-8800
Fax: 212-817-1537
Email: speech@gc.cuny.edu
Feb 10, 2003  7:30pm  Monday

The New York Academy of Sciences Psychology Forum   

Professor Michael Terman, Columbia University 

Seasonal Affective Disorder: How and Why It Responds to Light Treatment

Light is now well established as somatic antidepressant that can serve as first line treatment or in conjunction with medications.  Most studies demonstrating efficacy have focused on winter depression (seasonal affective disorder).  Dosing dimensions include illuminance, exposure duration and time of day of exposure.  By far the best improvement occurs with early morning light exposure, which induces circadian rhythm phase advances (e.g., earlier evening onset of pineal melatonin production).  To fine-tune individual treatment we need to schedule light exposure in "circadian time" rather than external clock time.  Individuals differ in melatonin onset (a circadian time anchor) by as much as 6 hours. Clinically, circadian time can be inferred from the sleep-wake pattern while the patient is depressed and also by a questionnaire score that reflects morningness-eveningness or "chronotype."

At 2 East 63rd Street (off 5th Avenue). Free of charge and open to the public.  Students are encouraged to attend. 6pm Dinner by Reservation. Please call (212-838-0230 ext. 426) 

Mar 3

Mondya 12:30 pm

NYU Neuroscience Colloquium

"The monkey's lateral intraparietal
area: A visual salience representation
for eye movement and perception"


Jacqueline Gottlieb
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
Columbia University 

Center for Neural Science (CNS): 
Meyer Building, Room 122 
4 Washington Place 
: (212) 998-7780
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/
March 5
2:00-3:00pm   Wednesday
Colloquium: Professor Robert Goldfarb, Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
"Two clinical methods for differential diagnosis of adults
with neurogenic communication disorders"

Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences 
CUNY Graduate Center 
365 Fifth Avenue 
New York, New York 10016 
Room 7102 
Tel: 212-817-8800
Fax: 212-817-1537
Email: speech@gc.cuny.edu 
Mar 10, 2003    7:30pm  Monday 

The New York Academy of Sciences Psychology Forum     Professor Susan Fiske, Princeton University                             Bias in the Brain, Mind, and Society

Prejudices are emotional, not just cognitive. Emotional prejudices include disgust, pity, envy, not just resentment and anger. These emotions operate in society as cultural biases, in individuals as personal discomfort, and in the brain as amygdala responses. Prejudiced emotions underlie discriminatory behavior, from the most mundane to the most violent.

At 2 East 63rd Street (off 5th Avenue).Free of charge and open to the public. Students are encouraged to attend. 6pm Dinner by Reservation. Please call (212-838-0230 ext. 426).

Mar 17, 2003   Monday 12:30 pm NYU Neuroscience Colloquium
"fMRI investigations of human
extrastriate cortex: People, places, and
things"

Nancy Kanwisher
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
location: Center for Neural Science (CNS): 
Meyer Building, Room 122 
4 Washington Place 
: (212) 998-7780
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/
Mar  19
2:00-3:00pm Wednesday
Colloquium
Dr. Harry Whitaker
Topic: TBA

Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016 
Room 7102 

Tel: 212-817-8800
Fax: 212-817-1537
Email: speech@gc.cuny.edu
Mar 29-30, 2003

8:45am-5:00 pm

Two-day conference on ADHD, DCD & Apraxia: Neurobehavioral Processes and Rehabilitation.Speakers:Adele Diamond, F.Xavier Castellnos, William  Pelham, Maria Azelone,Angela Mandich, Janet Poole, Kathleen Haaland, Robert Sainburg.Sponsored by Teachers College/Columbia University (CEO&I). Open to the public. Noncredit fee:$300, preregistration suggested.

location: Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120 Street, New York NY

Contact: Professor A.M. Gentile, Teachers College/Columbia University. 212 678 3329;ag239@columbia.edu
Mar 30-Apr 1

All Day

10th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society

New York Marriott Marquis 
1535 Broadway, New York City

Program includes George A. Miller Distinguished Lecture by Michael Gazzaniga, a.m. & p.m. symposia (speakers include Elizabeth Phelps, Gary Aston-Jones, Giacomo Rizzolatti,
Michael Petrides, Paul Corballis, Marie Banich, others), and 6 poster sessions. Symposium topics include prefrontal
cortex, emotion-cognition links, corpus callosum, tool use by primates, visual object recognition, action understanding & imitation.

INFORMATION: 
978-749-0021 CNSinfo@cogneurosociety.org 
www.cogneurosociety.org 
April 2
2:00-3:00pm  Wednesday
Colloquium: Professor Brett Martin, Seton Hall University
"Cortical auditory evoked potential indices of speech discrimination capacity"
Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences 
CUNY Graduate Center 
365 Fifth Avenue 
New York, New York 10016 
Room 7102 
Tel: 212-817-8800
Fax: 212-817-1537
Email: speech@gc.cuny.edu
Apr 7, 2003    

Monday 12:30 pm

NYU Neuroscience Colloquium
"Image and Memory: Single Neuron Recordings in the
Human Medial Temporal Lobe"

Itzhak Fried
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles 

Center for Neural Science (CNS): 
Meyer Building, Room 122 
4 Washington Place 
: (212) 998-7780
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/
April 10
4:15-6:15pm

Thursday

Colloquium
Professor Virginia Valian
M.A./Ph.D. Programs in Philosophy 
Professor Elaine Klein
Professor Gita Martohardjona
Topic: TBA

Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences 
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue,
New York, New York 10016 
Room 7102 

Tel: 212-817-8800
Fax: 212-817-1537
Email: speech@gc.cuny.edu
April 12  8:30 - 5 PM
Call for Papers. the New York Academy of Traumatic Brain Injury. "Brain Injury: Trauma, Assessment, Rehabilitation, Outcome."   Fordham University at Lincoln Center, Manhattan, NY. 113 West 60th St. 12th floor lounge, between Columbus and Amsterdam Aves. Contact: Rolland S. Parker, Ph.D. 50 West 96th St. (9C), NY NY 10025, email: rsp2@nyu.edu; (212) - 947-7111 x 328.
Apr 14, 2003     Monday 12:30 pm NYU Neuroscience Colloquium
4 Washington Place (Meyer Building)
Room 815

"The subiculum as a cognitive map"
Patricia Sharp
Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University

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
April 17  Thursday 12:30 pm A Generative Theory of Shape

Michael Leyton, Rutgers University                                           Area Seminar in Cognition and Perception

NYU, Department of Psychology
and Center for Neural Science
6 Washington Place, Room 878
NY, NY 10003

April 21

The New York Academy of Sciences Psychology Forum

Professor Uwe Gielen, St. Francis CollegeMagazin der Erfahrungsseelenkunde (1783-1793): The World’s Oldest Psychology Journal

At 2 East 63rd Street (off 5th Avenue). Free of charge and open to the public. Students are encouraged to attend. 6pm Dinner by Reservation. Please call (212-838-0230 ext. 426).

Apr 21          Monday 12:00 noon NYU Neuroscience Colloquium
"Mechanisms of cortical plasticity"
Mark F. Bear
Department of Neuroscience
Brown University
Medical Center (Med Ctr): 
Jacob Bleibtreu Seminar Room 
Skirball Institute, 3rd Floor 
(212) 263-5438 
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/
Apr 24 NYU Cognition & Perception
seminars.
John Bargh (NYU) "Mind Control"

Thursdays, 12:30pm, Room 878, NYU Dept. of Psychology, 6
Washington Place (east of Washington Square).
*[UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED];Contact:  msl@cns.nyu.edu 
Apr 26

8:00am -1:30 pm

April 28, 2003

12:00 Monday

NYU Neuroscience Colloquium
"Stem cells and synapses: Rebuilding the nervous system"
Ron McKay, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institute of Health, Medical Center (Med Ctr): 
Jacob Bleibtreu Seminar Room, Skirball Institute, 3rd Floor, (212) 263-5438, http://www.cns.nyu.edu/
May 1, 2003   Thurs 11-12

Modern Psychoanalysis: What is it?”  

Karen Gilmore, MD Associate Director, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center  

SAINT VINCENT CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTERS, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Saint Vincent’s Hospital – Manhattan, O’Toole Building Large Conference Room; 203 W. 12th Street, New York, NY

May 2, 2003 Friday      4:00 pm Seminar in Cognition & Perception:  Neural Mechanisms of Attention in Monkey Extrastriate Visual Cortex

John Reynolds, 
The Salk InstituteJohn Reynolds 

NYU, Department of Psychology
and Center for Neural Science
4 Washington Place, Room 815
NY, NY 10003

Visual perception seems effortless, but psychophysical
experiments show that the brain is severely limited in 
the amount of visual information it can process at any moment 
in time. For instance, when people are asked to identify 
the objects in a briefly presented scene, they become less 
accurate as the number of objects increases. The inability 
to process more than a few objects at a time reflects the 
limited capacity of some stage (or stages) of sensory 
processing, decision-making, or behavioral control. Somewhere
between stimulating the retina and generating a behavioral
response, objects compete with one another to pass through
this computational bottleneck.

What are the neural mechanisms underlying this competi-
tion? How are they influenced by intrinsic properties of
the stimulus, such as its visual salience? How does 
visual attention modulate this competition to select out
behaviorally relevant stimuli while suppressing irrelevant
distractors? I will describe a series of single-unit
recording experiments we have conducted to address 
these questions. The results of these experiments clarify the 
role of attention in modulating visual signals, and provide a 
set of constraints that rule out some possible models of 
extrastriate visual processing. I will present a simple 
cortical circuit that satisfies these constraints.

Contact Dr. Michael Landy, NYU Ctr. for Neural Science,  (212) 998-7857, : landy@nyu.edu
NYU, Department of Psychology
and Center for Neural Science
4 Washington Place, Room 815
NY, NY 10003


May 3, 2003

SAT 8-6

 

New York Neuropsychology Group (NYNG) 24th  Annual Conference

 Cognitive AND Emotional Memory:

Neuropsychological, Behavioral, and Neural Perspectives

Joint Meeting with the Psychology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences

St. Vincent's Hospital, Cronin Auditorium, 170 West 12th Street (at 7th Avenue), 10th floor,              New York City

Registration information    PROGRAM               

Contact: Conference Coordinator Amy Weinstein, Ph.D., 914-273-2286

Conference Organizers: William B. Barr, Ph.D., Paul Ramirez, Ph.D., Christopher Christodoulou, Ph.D., F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.

For general information about NYNG activities and membership, contact: F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D. • President NYNG • Helen Hayes Hospital • West Haverstraw, NY  10993, Ph: 845-786-4110 • Fax: 845-786-4414 •FrankLeFever@nyng.org,cc:fflefever@yahoo.com

For other information, contact: Lee Damsky • NYNG Administrative Coordinator • leedamsky@nyng.org

May 8, 2003  Thursday 11-12

Pharmacologic Treatment of Schizophrenia:  New Research”,      John Kane, MD,  Vice President for Behavioral Health Services,  Chairman, Department of Psychiatry,  Zucker Hillside Hospital

SAINT VINCENT CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTERS, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Saint Vincent’s Hospital – Manhattan, O’Toole Building Large Conference Room; 203 W. 12th Street, New York, NY

 

May 8  Thursday 12:30pm NYU Cognition & Perception Seminars.

 Suparna Rajaram (SUNY Stony Brook) "Remembering,
Knowing, & Priming" ;
Organizers: Michael Landy & Greg Murphy

Room 878, NYU Dept. of Psychology, 6
Washington Place (east of Washigton Square).
Contact:
msl@cns.nyu.edu 

May 13th - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday

NYNG  Bilingual Task Force meeting 
 "Testing Bilingual Children: Psychometric Research and the Fallacy of Objectivity"
 Dr. Alberto Burzsteyn, Brooklyn College

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, First Floor
Saint Vincent's Hospital
153 W. 11th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues

For this and future meetings contact: AZBrosgold@aol.com

May 15, 2003 Thursday 11-12

Interpersonal Psychoanalysis”,                                             Steven Tublin, PhD, Supervisor of Psychotherapy and Faculty,          William Alanson White Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

SAINT VINCENT CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTERS, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Saint Vincent’s Hospital – Manhattan, O’Toole Building Large Conference Room; 203 W. 12th Street, New York, NY

May 15
4:15-6:15pm Thursday
Colloquium Professor Prathibha Karanth
Mangalore and Bangalore Universities, India
"The Language and Cognition in Autism: The DEALL
Communication Program in India"


Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10016 
Room 7102, Tel: 212-817-8800,Fax: 212-817-1537, Email: speech@gc.cuny.edu
May 16 & 17 9:30am-5:00p "Statistical Models of Vision and Action" Contact_FullName: Dr. Michael Landry
Contact_Organization: NYU Psychol. Dept & Ctr for Neural Science
All events take place in 6 Washington Place, Room 878, 
unless otherwise noted.

FRIDAY, MAY 16

9:30 Introductions, Breakfast

10:00 David Knill - The Role of Visual Feedback in the Control of Reaching Movements
10:45 Marty Banks - The Integration of Vision and Touch  
11:30 Raymond van Ee - Conscious Bi-Stable Depth Perception:Effort of Will and bayesian Modeling
12:15 Karen Adolph - Development of Visually Guided Locomotion

1-2 Lunch

2:00 Pascal Mamassian - Perceptual Biases and Bayesian Modelling
2:45 Volker Franz - The Use of Visual Information for Motor Actions: 
Data and Methodological Challenges
3:30 Julia Trommershaeuser - Statistical Decision Theory and Movement Planning 
4:15 Larry Maloney - Questions Without words: Connections Between Decision Making and Movement Under Risk
5:00 Ben Backus - Optimal Adaptation in Estimator Bias

6:00 Dinner

SATURDAY, MAY 17

10:00 Michael Landy - Cue Combination with Possibly Correlated Cues
10:45 Micheteru Kitazaki - Postural Sway Induced by Radial and Lateral Motions
11:30 Robbie Jacobs - Does `Touch Educate Vision'? 

12:15 Takao Sato - Accuracy of Gaze Perception

1-2:30 Lunch

2:30-5 Discussion

location:

New York University, Center for Neural Science, 6 Washington Place, Room 878, 

INFO re:NYU Ctr for Neural Science, 
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~msl/hfspmeeting.html
Contact Dr. Michael Landry msl@cns.nyu.edu 

May 20 7:30pm - 9:30pm Emotional Intelligence: Is There Anything To It?

Section Psychologys

Speaker: Peter Salovey, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences, Yale University

In 1990, John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey proposed that
individuals differ in their abilities to identify,
understand, regulate, and use emotions adaptively, and they
argued that these abilities, as a whole, represent an
intelligence. Although initially greeted with skepticism in
scientific circles, the idea of an emotional intelligence
(EI) captured the imagination of the general public. In
this presentation, Dr Salovey reviews the scientific case
for emotional intelligence. He outlines a precise
definition of what EI is and what it is not, as well as how
emotional abilities can be measured. Most important, he
discusses how those individuals with relatively stronger or
weaker skills in this domain fare in their personal lives,
at work, and in relationships with other people. 

Optional dinner at 6 pm. To reserve, call 212-838-0230
x426. Dinner is $20 for Academy Members, $25 for
Non-members, and $15 for Students. Payable on-site.
Reservations must be made at least 3 business days in
advance.

Location: At the Academy

Contact: JPapanikolaw@nyas.org
May 29, 2003 Thursday 11-12

Metabolic Changes with Treatment of typical Antipsychotics  

Jean-Pierre Lindenmayer, MD, Clinical Director, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Clinical Professor, NYU Department of Psychiatry

SAINT VINCENT CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTERS, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Saint Vincent’s Hospital – Manhattan, O’Toole Building Large Conference Room; 203 W. 12th Street, New York, NY

Sept 5-7, 2003

all day

Imaging the Brain: Neurons, Networks and Behavior September 5-7, 2003 Biennial New York University, Center for Neural Science Symposium. Many of the most important achievements over the last decade in Neuroscience have been dependent on the development of new empirical methods, driven by interdisciplinary
collaborations. Of particular significance has been the development and application of techniques for imaging brain structure and function. The conference will focus on how the use of brain imaging techniques is leading to a deeper understanding of human behavior, perception, cognition, and emotion terms of the detailed biophysical, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of brain function. The conference will include a diverse group of
research presentations on the use of imaging to study the brain at scales ranging from cortical systems to synapses. We will have an opening address by Marcus Raichle, following by four sessions: Functional organization of sensory systems, Fronto-temposral interactions in memory, Activity-dependent functional connectivity, and Technological innovations. Each session will be followed by a panel discussion/debate. Confirmed Speakers Peter Basser, Richard Buxton, Hollis Cline, Mark D'Esposito, David Van Essen, Amiram Grinvald, Russell Jacobs, Fumitaka Kimura, Eleanor
Maguire, Randall McIntosh, Venkatesh Murthy, Marcus Raichle, Mark Schnitzer, Daniel Silverman, Karel Svoboda, Leslie Ungerleider, Wim Vanduffel, Anthony Wagner, Brian Wandell. 

For additional information: 
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/symposia/sympo2003.html 
location: NYU Center for Neural Science, 4 Washington Place, NYC


Oct 2, 2003

Thursday

11:00-12:00

GRAND ROUNDS PRESENTATION: Susceptibility Genes and the Neuropathology of Schizophrenia

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Services
Saint Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan
Joel E. Kleinman, MD, PhD, 
Chief, Section of Neuropathology
Deputy Chief, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch
National Institute of Mental Health

Location: 
O'Toole Building, Large Conference Room, 
203 W. 12th Street, New York, NY. 

Contact: Joseph T. English, M.D., Professor & Chairman 

Oct 13, 2003 7:30:00 pm Identification and Treatment of Mixed States in Mood Disorders
Francis Mas M.D. 
sponsored by the Mood Disorders Support Group of NYC
Dr. Mas is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, NYU Medical School and the Associate Clinical Director of the Brain Research Laboratory at NYU Medical Center.

location:
The Beth Israel Medical Center in the Dazian Pavilion in the Podell Auditorium. The main entrance of Beth Israel is on the northwest corner of First Ave and 16th Street, however the Dazian Pavilion is on 16 Street and Nathan Perlman Place. 

Contact: www.mdsg.org;  Mood Disorders Support Group; 212-533-6374; Email: info@mdsg.org

Oct 21, 2003   Tuesday

7-9pm

NYNG NEUROPSYCHOLOGY STUDENT TRAINING FAIR

Representatives from various institutions in NYC and the surrounding metropolitan area will speak about externships, internships,  & post-doctoral fellowships. Free, no pre-registration required. 

Location: Cronin Cafeteria Atrium Room at St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center (Enter on 12th St and 7th Avenues).

Nov 3, 2003  7:30:00 pm Medications: Getting the Full Effect, Losing the Side Effects
Heidi Wehring, Pharm.D. 

Dr. Wehring is Assistant Clinical Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Practice at St. John's University 
Note: The cost is $10 for non-members and $6 for members.

Medication side effects can be as devastating as the illness they treat. As if that idea weren't upsetting enough, there are so many confusing directions to follow to ensure that the medication will work at its optimum effect, For instance, if the prescription says "take with food," what does that mean? A cracker? A full meal? Then there's the question about water? How much is the right amount? A sip? A tall glass? Which tablets are OK for cutting in half? Are the generic brands just as good as the name brand? Are expired medications dangerous to take? Even if by 3 months? A year? If you get heartburn right after swallowing the designated dose, will an antacid neutralize the action of the drug? Is it OK to lie down and sleep right after popping a lot of pills or should you stay upright for awhile? The questions are endless. 

Dr. Wehring is an expert in pharmacy practice whose particular focus is psychiatric medications. She will explain how to get the most out of medications as well as address the difficult to manage side effects. 

location:

The Beth Israel Medical Center in the Dazian Pavilion in the Podell Auditorium. The main entrance of Beth Israel is on the northwest corner of First Ave and 16th Street, however the Dazian Pavilion is on 16 Street and Nathan Perlman Pl

Contact_www.mdsg.org; Mood Disorders Support Group;  212-533-6374; Email: info@mdsg.org

Nov 6, 2003 Thurs 11:00-12:00 How Gene Environment Interactions Shape 
Bio-Behavioral Development In Rhesus Monkeys”
GRAND ROUNDS
Stephen J. Suomi, PhD
Chief, Laboratory of Comparative Ethiology
National Institute of Child & Human Development (NIH)
Location: SAINT VINCENT CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTERS
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Services
Saint Vincent’s Hospital - Manhattan; O’Toole Building, Large Conference Room; 203 W. 12th Street, New York, NY; Joseph T. English, M.D.
Professor & Chairman
Nov 11, 2003 Tuesday

7-9 pm

NYNG Bilingual Task Force Meeting                                                 Topic: TBA Location: St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center (Enter on 12th St and 7th Avenues), Dept of Rehabilitation, First Floor. Contact: Alizah Brosgold AZBrozgold@aol.com
Nov 13, 2003

Thurs 11-12

"Adult ADHD"
David Baron, DO
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry
Temple University
Location: SAINT VINCENT CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTERS
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Services
Saint Vincent’s Hospital - Manhattan; O’Toole Building, Large Conference Room; 203 W. 12th Street, New York, NY; Joseph T. English, M.D.
Professor & Chairman
NOV 17

7:30-9:30 p.m.

 

THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

JOAN BOROD, PH.D.

ANNUAL NYNG/ NYAS "SUPPER" MEETING 

St. Vincent's Hospital click here for details

Nov 20, 2003

Thurs 11-12

“Developmental Aspects of Identity”
Paulina F. Kernberg, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Director of Child and Adolescent Residency Training
New York Presbyterian Hospital Westchester
Location: SAINT VINCENT CATHOLIC MEDICAL CENTERS
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Services
Saint Vincent’s Hospital - Manhattan; O’Toole Building, Large Conference Room; 203 W. 12th Street, New York, NY; Joseph T. English, M.D.
Professor & Chairman
Nov 21, 2003

Friday 12-6

15th Greater New York Conference on Behavioral
Research
Fordham (113 W. 60 Street) is an afternoon of presentations, symposia, and a reception at 5 pm with authors Derald Sue (Columbia), Ralph Piedmont (Loyola-Baltimore), and David Baker (Akron).  If you or others have research to present that Friday, the call for 300-word abstracts is due by Nov. 3 to Angela Crossman, gnyc15@hotmail.com. 

Dec 6, 2003 

Sat, 10 a.m.

ALTERED SELF AS A MODEL OF CHRONIC FATIGUING ILLNESSES
JAMES F. JONES MD

Neuro-Psychoanalysis Lecture Series; Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Discussant: Mark Solms , Ph.D. (Director, Neuro-Psychoanalysis Center )
Location: Auditorium, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, 247 East 82nd Street , New York
ALL WELCOME
contact: www.neuro-psa.org