THE PATH TO AUTISM (Event Flyer, click HERE)
"Early Diagnosis and Follow-up of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders"
Thursday, March 2nd

4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.
241 MRL/Kennedy Center

Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
Director, Autism and Communication Disorders Center
University of Michigan

Refreshments immediately following the presentation

Parking is available in spaces 52-170 at the Wesley Place Garage on 21st Avenue South and Scarritt Place at standard Central Parking rates

For more information about the Lord Vanderbilt campus schedule, call 615-322-8240.

Co-Sponsors: Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience

Brain Blast! Family Fun at the Adventure Science Center (Event Flyer, click HERE)
Saturday, March 4th, 11 am – 3 pm
Adventure Science Center
800 Fort Negley Blvd., Nashville

Come to the Adventure Science Center and enjoy a variety of hands-on activities led by Vanderbilt neuroscience undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.

Brain Blast is free, but participants must pay the museum entry fee.

Co-Sponsors: Nashville Adventure Science Center, Vanderbilt Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience

A NEW VIEW OF ALZHEIMER'S (Event Flyer, click HERE)
"Using Brain Scans to Detect Alzheimer' Disease"
Thursday, March 9th

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
202 Light Hall

John G. Csernansky, M.D.
Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research
Washington University, St. Louis

Refreshments immediately following the presentation

Parking is available in the South Parking Garage, 2200 Children's Way at standard Central Parking rates

For more information about the Csernansky Vanderbilt campus schedule, email victoria.a.hodges@vanderbilt.edu and/or call 615-322-3609.

Co-Sponsors: Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Institute for Imaging Sciences, Vanderbilt Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience

2006 Vanderbilt-MTNCSfN Brain Awareness Keynote Address (Event Flyer, click HERE)
TRACKING SCHIZOPHRENIA
"Is There a Neuroanatomy of Schizophrenia?"
Wednesday, March 15th

4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.
103 Wilson Hall

Stephan Heckers, M.D.
James G. Blakemore Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
Vanderbilt University

Opening remarks by Ronald L. Cowan, M.D., Ph.D.
Program Director, 2006 Vanderbilt-MTNCSfN Brain Awareness

Introduction by Herbert Y. Meltzer, M.D.
Bixler Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University

Reception immediately following the presentation

Parking is available in spaces 52-170 at the Wesley Place Garage on 21st Avenue South and Scarritt Place at standard Central Parking rates

Co-Sponsors: Vanderbilt University Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, Vanderbilt Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience

MEETING ADDICTION HEAD ON (Event Flyer, click HERE)
"Endorphins, Stress and the Addictions"
Thursday, March 23rd

1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
214 Light Hall

Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D.
Professor and Head, Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases
The Rockefeller University

Refreshments immediately following the presentation

Parking is available in the South Parking Garage, 2200 Children's Way at standard Central Parking rates

For more information about the Kreek Vanderbilt campus schedule, email victoria.a.hodges@vanderbilt.edu and/or call 615-322-3609.

Co-Sponsors: Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Center for Molecular Neuroscience, Vanderbilt Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience

YOU SNOOZE, YOU LOSE! (Event Flyer, click HERE)
"The National Sleep Debt: A Role in the Epidemic of Obesity?"
Thursday, March 30th

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Jack Wood TEC Auditorium, Adventure Science Center

Eve Van Cauter, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Research Laboratory on Sleep, Chronobiology and Neuroendocrinology
University of Chicago

Refreshments immediately following the presentation

For more information about the Van Cauter Vanderbilt campus schedule, email victoria.a.hodges@vanderbilt.edu and/or call 615-322-3609.

Co-Sponsors: Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center, Nashville Adventure Science Center, Vanderbilt Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience

Hard copies of the Brain Awareness 2006! brochure & posters will be available by request. For more information, call 615-936-2637, email: brain.institute@vanderbilt.edu, or drop by our main office at U1205 Medical Center North (Learned Labs) during working hours.