Neurobehavioral Approaches to the Study of Clinical Disorders
Mission Tempe Palms, Phoenix, AZ
March 12-14, 2008
Eighteen research scholars from the U.S. and Germany met to share the latest research on Neurobehavioral science. Conference organizer Joseph Steinmetz, of The University of Kansas, joined Mabel Rice, director of the Merrill Center, to conduct the opening session. Sixteen speakers shared their knowledge on related Neurobehavioral subjects such as eyeblink conditioning, pediatric neuroimaging techniques, the hippocampus and remote spatial memory, and many more.
This retreat was sponsored by the Merrill Advanced Studies Center and the University of Kansas College of Arts and Sciences.
Participants pictured below, standing, left to right: Fred Helmstetter, Patrick Skosnik, Thomas Gould, Kevin LaBar, Mark Stanton, Stephen Fowler, Gregory Madden, Derick Lindquist, Evelyn Haaheim, Paula Bickford, and Robert Clark. Seated: William Hetrick, Diana Woodruff-Pak, Dagmar Timmann-Braun, Joseph Steinmetz, Mabel Rice, Richard Schiefelbusch, Lisa Freund, and Antoine Bechara.
2008 Conference Participants
Duke University
- Kevin S. LaBar, Associate Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Indiana University
- William Hetrick, Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Patrick D. Skosnik, Department of Psychological and Brain Science
NIH/NICHD
- Lisa Freund, Program Director, Child Development & Behavior Branch
Temple University
- Diana Woodruff-Pak, Professor of Psychology; Director, Neuroscience
- Thomas J. Gould, Associate Professor, Psychology
University of California, San Diego
- Robert E. Clark, Associate Director of Psychiatry, San Diego School of Medicine
University of Delaware
- Mark E. Stanton, Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Duisburg-Essen
- Dagmar Timmann-Braun, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
University of Kansas
- Stephen C. Fowler, Professor of Pharmacology/LSI Senior Scientist, Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Derick Lindquist, Research Associate, Div. of Biological Sciences
- Gregory J. Madden, Associate Professor, Applied Behavioral Science
- Mabel L. Rice, University Distinguished Professor; Director, Merrill Advanced Studies Center
- Richard Schiefelbusch, Professor Emeritus, Director Emeritus, Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies
- Joseph Steinmetz, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Science
University of South Florida
- Paula C. Bickford, Professor, USF Health
University of Southern California
- Antoine Bechara, Professor
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Fred J. Helmstetter, Professor, Department of Psychology
Conference Agenda
Mission Tempe Palms, Phoenix, AZ
March 12-14, 2008
Wednesday, March 12
- Merrill Board Meeting
- Reception
- Dinner
- Welcome and remarks – Mabel Rice, Director, Merrill Center; Joseph Steinmetz, University of Kansas, Conference Organizer
- Social Hour
Thursday, March 13
- Opening Remarks – Joe Steinmetz
Session
- Antoine Bechara, University of Southern California, “Decision Neuroscience: Early onset (childhood) versus adult onset brain damage, and predisposition to substance abuse”
- Gregory Madden, University of Kansas, “Delay discounting, pramipexole, and gambling-related behavior”
Break
Session
- William Hetrick, Indiana University, “Studies of temporal architecture dysfunction in schizophrenia”
- Patrick Skosnik, Indiana University, “Differential impairment in delay versus trace eyeblink conditioning in chronic cannabis users”
- Joseph Steinmetz, University of Kansas, “Exploring cerebellar involvement in temporal response control”
Lunch
Session
- Dagmar Timmann-Braun, University of Essen, “Eyeblink conditioning in human subjects with cerebellar disorders”
- Diana Woodruff-Pak, Temple University, “Animal models for the understanding and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease”
- Robert Clark, University of California, San Diego, “The hippocampus and remote spatial memory”
Break
Session
- Paula Bickford, University of South Florida, “Norepinephrine in classical conditioning: role in consolidation”
- Thomas Gould, Temple University, “Nicotine addiction and learning: Involvement of contextual associations and the hippocampus”
- Steven Fowler, University of Kansas, “Influence of amphetamine on use of space by rats performing an un-cued temporal discrimination: Implications for laboratory models of brain disorders”
Dinner
Friday, March 14
Group Photo Session
Session
- Lisa Freund, NICHD, “Pediatric neuroimaging techniques, tools, and resources”
- Mark Stanton, University of Delaware, “Applications of eyeblink conditioning to neurodevelopmental disorders”
- Derick Lindquist, University of Kansas, “The effects of neonatal ethanol exposure on the developing cerebellum: Functional consequences in the adult rat”
Break
Session
- Fred Helmstetter, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “Neural systems for fear and fear extinction”
- Kevin LaBar, Duke University, “Context-dependent recovery of fear memories”
- Summary Remarks – Mabel Rice