Predicting Choice With FMRI: Brian Knutson Talk
On Thursday, November 5th, Professor Brian Knutson of Stanford will be
visiting Penn to give a talk in the Neuroscience & Society lecture
series. Professor Knutson’s research is focused on positive emotion,
reward processing and neuroeconomics, and the title of his talk will be
“Predicting choice with FMRI.” It will be held from 4-5:30 in the G16
room of Irvine Auditorium with a wine and cheese reception to follow. If
you have any questions, please e-mail Leah Fiasca at
lfiasca@sas.upenn.edu.
Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy: A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents
Saturday, October 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Penn Professor
Vivian Seltzer
Presenting:
IRCS Colloquium: Professor Misha Tsodyks: Synaptic theory of working memory
Misha Tsodyks
Department of Neurobiology
Weizmann Institute of Science
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/bnmisha/
Friday, October 16
12:00-1:30 pm
Synaptic theory of working memory
We recently proposed that short-term working memory could be residing in
selective facilitation of recurrent connections in dedicated neocortical
circuits. This mechanism can account for low persistent firing rates
Penn Neuroethics Talk: Cognitive Enhancing Drugs: Neuroscience and Society
Dear Friends of the Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society:
We pleased to extend to you an invitation to attend the first public talk in this year's Neuroscience & Society Lecture Series at the University of Pennsylvania. World-renowned researcher and Penn Distinguished International Scholar, Dr. Barbara Sahakian, will be speaking on "Cognitive Enhancing Drugs: Neuroscience and Society."
http://neuroethics.upenn.edu/index.php/category-table/55-talk-series
Psychology Colloquium: Professor Nicki Crick: Childhood Aggression and Gender: “Boys Will be Boys, But What About Girls?”
Mon, October 5 2009
Psychology Colloquium: Professor Nicki Crick, University of Minnesota
Title: Childhood Aggression and Gender: Boys Will be Boys, But What About Girls?
Psychology Colloquium: Professor Kent Berridge
Mon, September 21 2009
Psychology Colloquium: Professor Kent Berridge, University of Michigan
Title: Delight, Desire and Dread: Limbic Brain Generators
Positive Health Lecture: Special Lecture on Physical Fitness, Obesity, and Health
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location: Dunlop Auditorium in Stemmler Hall at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, near 36th
and Spruce Street in Philadelphia. See below for details on location and parking.
Title: Physical Fitness or Obesity: Which Is the More Important Determinant of Health Outcomes?
Vision Seminar: Nicole Rust
IRCS/Computational Neuroscience Speaker Series: Rafal Bogacz
Rafal Bogacz
Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~rafal/
Friday, September 11
12:00-2:00 pm
Optimal decision making in the cortico-basal-ganglia circuit
It has been proposed that during choice tasks based on sensory
information cortical regions integrate evidence supporting alternative
responses, and the basal ganglia act as a central switch resolving the
competition between the cortical areas. This talk will show that many
Psychology Dissertation Seminar
DISSERTATION SEMINAR
Jay Fournier
Friday, July 24th at 1:00 pm
B35, Solomon Labs
Title: Predictors of Response to Medication and Cognitive Therapy in the
Treatment of Moderate to Severe Depression.
Abstract:
Despite abundant empirical evidence demonstrating that cognitive therapy
and antidepressant medications are effective treatments for depression,
neither treatment appears to work equally well for all patients. In the
three studies contained in this dissertation, I examined data from a