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Apr 24, 2008

Baseball and the Brain

Dan Gordon, editor of Your Brain on Cubs, moderated a panel about baseball and the brain with former Giant baseball great Bobby Thomson; Hillary R. Rodman, Ph.D., Emory University; and Jordan Grafman, Ph.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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Mar 04, 2008

Learning, Arts, and the Brain: the Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition

The Dana Foundation released at a news conference on March 4, Learning, Arts, and the Brain, a three-year study at seven universities, which finds strong links between arts education and cognitive development. Speakers included Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D., UC, Santa Barbara; Michael Posner,Ph.D., University of Oregon; Elizabeth Spelke, Ph.D., Harvard University and Brian Wandell, Ph.D., Stanford University. Guy Mckhann, M.D., Johns Hopkins University gave a summary and Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts spoke of the study’s importance to the field of education.
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Nov 14, 2007

Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis

Dr. Pierre Magistretti, co-director of the Brain Mind Institute at the Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) and director of the Center for Psychiatric Neurosciences at the Lausanne University Hospital, and Dr. Francois Ansermet, head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Geneva University Hospital, spoke with Dana Foundation Chairman William Safire about their new book, Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious, and the bridge between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. The event took place on November 14, 2007 at the Dana Center in Washington, DC.
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Oct 10, 2007

A Conversation with David Nathan

David Nathan, M.D., author of The Cancer Treatment Revolution: How Smart Drugs and Other Therapies Are Renewing Our Hope and Changing the Face of Medicine and president emeritus of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was interviewed by William Safire, chairman of the Dana Foundation, on October 10, 2007 at the Dana Center in Washington, DC. Nathan and Safire spoke about the scientific and human aspects of the war against cancer and what it means to have and fight cancer in the 21st century.
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Oct 04, 2007

A Conversation with James Watson

James Watson, Ph.D., the Nobel Prize winning co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, spoke about his new memoir with Dana Chairman William Safire on October 4, 2007 at the Dana Center in DC. In the book, Avoid Boring People: Lessons From a Life in Science, Watson discusses his life and the lessons he has learned.
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Sep 26, 2007

Neuroscience at War: Mind Wars Trans-Atlantic Discussion

Neuroscience at War: Mind Wars trans-atlantic discussion was a transatlantic discussion between Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D. at the Dana Center in Washington, DC., and Professors Russell Foster and Malcom Dando at the Dana Centre in London. William Safire, chairman of the Dana Foundation and Christine McGourty, Science Correspondent for the BBC served as moderators.
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Jun 12, 2007

Speaking of Science: Alzheimer's Disease: When Will We Find a Cure?

Marilyn Albert, The Johns Hopkins University, Allan I. Levey, Emory University, and Richard Mayeux, Columbia University, discussed the latest advances in Alzheimer’s research at a Speaking of Science event, co-hosted by Syracuse University and the Dana Foundation. Guy McKhann, the Johns Hopkins University, and William Safire, chairman, Dana Foundation, served as co-moderators.
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May 14, 2007

The Neuroethics of Enhancement

Panelists discuss the latest research and give perspectives about the legal and neuroethical issues emerging from psychopharmacology of therapy and enhancement.
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May 11, 2007

Transforming Arts Teaching

In the way great teaching artists are good listeners, those educators who would create more great teaching artists should listen to the current ones.
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Events from Other Organizations

Tuesday, March 4, 2008, noon

Addiction and Society

Alan Leshner, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will discuss "The New Science of Addiction and What It Means for Society" at the Library of Congress in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.

Feb. 26, 2008, 6 p.m.

The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule

The New York Academy of Sciences
Donald Pfaff, PhD, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University, discusses his new book, the first to describe how ethics may be a hardwired function of the human brain.

Sept. 26-29, 2007

Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Neurodegenerative Disorders

The New York Academy of Sciences
The conference will combine basic, clinical and translational research in a forum designed to provide the most current information on aspects of mitochondrial function and its relationship to age-related neurodegenerative diseases and their treatment.

Oct. 10-13, 2007

2007 International Conference on Glioma Research and Therapy

Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
This is a three-day interdisciplinary CME credited conference focusing on the latest in glioma biology and therapy.

Oct. 25, 2007

Inaugural Parkinson's Disease Therapeutics Conference

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and The New York Academy of Sciences
The Inaugural PD Therapeutics Conference will convene translational researchers interested in drug discovery and development for PD. The conference will highlight advances in basic and translational research that provide the most current information on scientific discoveries that impact understanding of PD.

Nov. 29-30, 2007

B Cells in Autoimmunity and Multiple Sclerosis

Sheraton Delfina Santa Monica, Calif.
This symposium emphasizes the roles that B cells play as effectors and regulators in autoimmunity, the pathogenesis of MS, and the importance of antibodies to CNS antigens in the disease process. Sponsored by BioSymposia, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and The International Society for NeuroImmunology.

Dec. 3 and 4, 2007

What Do We Want in Brain Imaging?

Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
This symposium will address neuroimaging in the context of a progression from genes to molecules, molecules to cells, cells to organs and organs to systems. It will provide a forum for discussions regarding future directions in brain imaging. Sponsored by The New York Academy of Sciences.