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Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

PROGRAM DIRECTOR:
Hassan H. Lopez
Associate Professor, Psychology
Office: Tisch 156
Telephone: (518) 580 - 5314

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT:
Carol Lloyd

Past Speakers

Date Speaker and Association
Title of Talk
4/4/08 Sir Jonathan Miller,

Writer/Director/Actor,
"Beyond the Fringe"
British physician, author and director
Skidmore's McCormack Visiting
Artist-Scholar, Spring 2008

Q & A Session
4/6/06




Daniel F. Hanley,

M.D. Director, Div. of Brain Injury Outcomes
Prof. in Acute Care Neurology

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

"Repetitive Bilateral Arms Training and Motor Cortex Activation in Chronic Stroke"
10/29/03






Anne-Marie Brady, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor of Psychology and Post-Doctoral Fellow in Neuroscience at Albany Medical Center

"Dopamine-Glutamate Interactions in the Nucleus Acumbens: Implications for Behavior and Neuropsychiatric Disease"
4/15/03



Paul C. Goldsmith, Ph.D.

Mill Valley, CA

"Cell Suicide Initiation (CSI): The Inside Story"

4/10/03




Daniel F. Hanley, M.D. Director, Div. of Brain Injury Outcomes

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
"Understanding Stroke: The Problem and Current Solutions"
4/10/03




Daniel F. Hanley, M.D. Director, Div. of Brain Injury Outcomes

Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
"Brain Injury and Recovery"
4/7/03





Mark Moss, Ph.D.

Chair, Anatomy and Neurobiology Department.
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.

"The neurobiological bases of cognitive decline in normal aging."
2/5/03




Eric Iannacone

Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA.
"The Effects of PCB Exposure on Gene Expression in the Fetal Rat Brain"
9/17/02



Maricedes Acosta-Martinez, Ph.D

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY..
"The Role of Mu and Delta Opioid Receptors in the Estrogen-Dependent Expression of Female Rat Sexual Behavior"
4/4/02




Geert De Vries, Ph.D., Director of Center for Neuroendocrine Studies

Dept. of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
"Sex Differences in the Brain"
3/28/02





Lique M. Coolen, Ph.D

Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
"Addicted to Love: A Neurobiological Perspective"
3/28/02







Mike N. Lehman, Ph.D., (Director of Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program)

Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
"Biological Rhythms and the Brain"
3/26/02



Simon LeVay, Ph.D.

Author and Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
"Queer science: The use and abuse of research into homosexuality"
3/7/02



Neil R. Carlson, Ph.D.

Dept. of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
"From Neuroscientist to Textbook Writer: The Science of Writing"
3/21/02






Anne M. Etgen, Ph.D., Director of Sue Golding Graduate Division of Biomedical Sciences

Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY.
"How Estrogen Influences Synaptic Communication in the Brain: Implications for Female Reproductive Function"
2/7/02




Christine K. Wagner, Ph.D.

Center for Neuroscience Research, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY.
"Development of Sex Differences in the Brain: Potential Role of Maternal Hormones"