Second Annual Neuropsychology Research Day
September 10, 2004
Rosenthal Library 230
9:00-9:05am
Welcome
Joshua Brumberg, Ph.D.
Organizer and Founder Neuropsychology Research Day
Session I: Attention
Moderator:
Joseph Glick, Ph.D. Executive Officer Psychology Ph.D.
Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY
9:05-9:20am
Enhanced Behavioral Performance but Impaired Behavioral
Plasticity in ICAM-1 Knock Out Mice
Lora Kasselman (Croll Lab)
9:20-9:35am
Can Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease Pay Attention?
Nancy Foldi, Ph.D.
9:35-9:50am
Neurodevelopmental Perspectives on AD/HD
Elizabeth Curko (Halperin Lab)
9:50-10:10am
Auditory Attention in Normal and Impaired Children
Hilary Gomes, Ph.D.
10:10-10:25am
Questions
10:25-10:40am
Coffee Break (put up posters)
Session II: Drugs and Behavior
Moderator: Peter Sturmey, Ph.D.
10:40-10:55am
Studies of Chronic Opioid Use
Aaron Juni (Kest Lab)
10:55-11:10am
Organizational and Activational Gonadal Hormone Interactions
Modulating Systemic Morphine Analgesia in Female Rats
Joe Cataldo (Bodnar Lab)
11:10-11:25am
Behavioral Neuroendocrinology of Aggressive Behavior: Why
Study Lizards?
William Farrell, Ph.D.
11:25-11:40am
Neonatal Isolation Reduces Food-Rewarded Operant Responding
in Rats
Maggie Zellner (Ranaldi Lab)
11:40-11:55am
Questions
Session III:
Poster Session
11:55-1:00pm
Lunch/Poster Session
Session IV: Keynote Speaker
1:00-2:30pm
Words of Welcome:
James L. Muyskens, Ph.D.
President, Queens College, CUNY
Thomas C. Strekas, Ph.D.
Dean Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Queens College, CUNY
Introduction of Keynote Speaker:
Joshua Brumberg, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY
Keynote Speaker:
Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D.
Chief of Cognitive Neuroscience, Laboratory of Neuropsychology
National Institute of Mental Health
Neural Substrates of Auditory Perception and Memory
2:30-2:35pm
Break
Session V: Sensory Systems
Moderator:
Richard Bodnar, Ph.D., Chairmen, Department of Psychology,
Queens College, CUNY.
2:35-2:50pm
Visual Perception of 3-D Shape from Textural Cues
Andrea Li, Ph.D.
2:50-3:05pm
Physiological and Morphological Properties of Functionally
Defined Neurons in Mouse Somatosensory Cortex
Mary Rocco (Brumberg Lab)
3:05-3:15pm
Questions
3:15-3:30pm
Coffee Break
Session VI: Clinical
Moderator: Doreen Berman, Ph.D.
3:30-3:45pm
Five Things Every Neuropsychologist Should Know about Social
Psychology
Sarit Golub, Ph.D.
3:45-4:00pm
Neuropsychological Deficit Profiles in Schizophrenia:
Longitudinal Association with Functional and Clinical Course
Judith Jaeger, Ph.D.
4:00-4:15pm
Psychological Symptoms in Partial Epilepsy
Rima Dolgoff-Kaspar (Perrine Lab)
4:15-4:30pm
Questions
Session VII: Emotion and Memory
Moderator: Howard Ehrlichman, Ph.D., Program Head, Neuropsychology, Ph.D.
Subprogram
4:30-4:45pm
Emotion but Not Arousal Affects Brain Activity during Episodic
Memory Retrieval
Elizabeth Simon (Johnson Lab)
4:45-5:00pm
Facial Emotional Expression as a Function of Age
Joan Borod, Ph.D.
5:00-5:15pm
Interference Effects in the Three Encoding Tasks: Does
Interference Always Interfere?
Dragana Micic (Winnick Lab)
5:15-5:30pm
Nodal Structures, Remote Associations and the Bifurcation of
Equivalence Classes
Lanny Fields, Ph.D.
5:30-5:45pm
Questions