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2008 Vanderbilt-MTNCSfN Brain Awareness/Brainstorm Program Gregory C. Mathews, M.D., Ph.D.

2008 Vanderbilt-MTNCSfN Brain Awareness/Brainstorm Coordinator: Steve Edminster, Vanderbilt Brain Institute

Email: brain.institute@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt-MTNCSfN Brain Awareness/Brainstorm Voice Line: 615-936-2637

Brain Awareness 2008! Schedule of Events

Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Brain Blast! Family Fun at the Adventure Science Center:
11:00 a.m.– 3:00 p.m.

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

2008 Vanderbilt-MTNCSfN Brain Awareness Keynote Address

Monday, March 17th, 4:10 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.
114 Furman Hall Reception to follow in Wilson Hall
"Records of our Lives, Memory and its Disorders"

Neal Cohen, Ph.D.
Professor Cohen will be here from the University of Illinois

Opening remarks by Isabel Gauthier, Ph.D.

Reception immediately following the lecture

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 Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience

Last modified: Tues., 18th Feb., 2008
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Brain Awareness 2008! Schedule of Events
March BAW Events Flyer, click HERE
Programs for Everyone:

Brain Blast! Family Fun at the Adventure Science Center (Event Flyer, click HERE)
Saturday, March 1st, 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 entry fee to Adventure Science Center.

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

Keynote Speaker

Monday March 17th

Time: 4:00 p.m. Room: 114 Furman Hall

"Records of our Lives" (Event Flyer, click HERE)
"Memory and its Disorders"

Neal Cohen, Ph.D.
University of Illinois
Department of Psychology

Refreshments immediately following the presentation in Wilson Hall

Co-Sponsors: Vanderbilt Brain Institute & Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience

Tuesday March 25th.

6:30 p.m. The Adventure Science Center

"New Treatments for Old Disorders"
"Deep Brain Stimulation"

Dr. Joseph Neimat, M.D.
Vanderbilt University

Co-Sponsors:Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience, and the Adventure Science Center.

Monday March 31st.

4:00 p.m. 241 Kennedy Center

"Autism: Facts and Fiction"
"Autism: Rates, Trends, and Links with Immunizations"

Eric Fombonne, M.D.
McGill University
Director, Center for Child Psychiatry for MUHC
Montreal Children's Hospital, Department of Psychiatry.

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

Hard copies of the Brain Awareness 2008! 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.