Distress Signals
"Long Term Effects of Childhood Abuse on the Brain" (3/1 Flyer: HERE / Lecture Slides)
Thursday, March 1st
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Jack Wood TEC Auditorium, Adventure Science Center

J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology
Director, Emory Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit
Director, Mental Health Research, Atlanta VAMC
Emory University School of Medicine

Refreshments immediately following the presentation
For more information about the Bremner Vanderbilt campus schedule, email terri.ray@vanderbilt.edu.

*Co-Sponsors: Nashville Adventure Science Center & Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry

Brain Blast! Family Fun at the Adventure Science Center
Saturday, March 3rd, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (3/3 Flyer: HERE)
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 & Neuroscience Student Organization

In the Cards or In the Brain?
"Gambling Addiction: What's the Brain Got to Do With It?" (3/7 Flyer: HERE / Lecture Slides)
Wednesday, March 7th
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Jack Wood TEC Auditorium, Adventure Science Center

Marc N. Potenza, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Problem Gambling Clinic at Yale
Director, Women and Addictions Core of Women's Health Research at Yale
Director of Neuroimaging, MIRECC VISN1, West Haven Veteran's Administration Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine

Refreshments immediately following the presentation
For more information about the Potenza Vanderbilt campus schedule, email terri.ray@vanderbilt.edu.

*Co-Sponsors: Nashville Adventure Science Center & Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry

Robert M. Sapolsky, Ph.D.
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences
Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University

Refreshments immediately following the presentation
For more information about the Sapolsky Vanderbilt campus schedule, email judy.garber@vanderbilt.edu.

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 Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University Center for Molecular Neuroscience, A&S Psychology, Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Office, Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, The Development Psychopathology Training Program, Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry & Vanderbilt Department of Neurology

Mood Medicines
"Better Than Prozac: Understanding Psychiatric Drugs" (3/28 Flyer: HERE/ Lecture Slides)
Wednesday, March 28th
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Jack Wood TEC Auditorium, Adventure Science Center

Samuel H. Barondes, M.D.
Director, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Refreshments immediately following the presentation
For more information about the Barondes Vanderbilt campus schedule, email terri.ray@vanderbilt.edu

*Co-Sponsors: Nashville Adventure Science Center & Vanderbilt University Center for Molecular Neuroscience

*Every year during the month of March, Vanderbilt Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience organize a variety of events for children, families, and adults to share the promise and progress of brain science research.

Hard copies of the Brainstorm 2007! brochure & posters are available by request. For more information, call 615-936-2637, email: brain.institute@vanderbilt.edu, and/or drop by our main office at U1205 Medical Center North (Learned Labs) during working hours.