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NEW YORK: MINDING THE GAP III: DREAMING: PSYCHOANALYSIS OR NEUROBIOLOGY?
Conference jointly sponsored by NYPSI, The Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis, and the Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center (Stern Auditorium) on Saturday 5 May (no Arnold Pfeffer Centre Lecture that day)
There is NO CHARGE for attending this event.
No registration required.
Speakers : Alan Hobson, Mark Solms with Mark Blechner, Steven Ellman, Richard Kessler, Ellen Rees Heather Berlin, Alan Eiser, Andrew Gerber, and Paul Rosenbaum
Click here for more information and times:
PARIS: LECTURES ON THE BRAIN:
SATURDAY 24 MARCH 2012
Brain and Memory Enhancement
65 QUAI D’ORSAY - 75007 PARIS
Franco-American Community Center
AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS, in the Thurber Room
These lectures present in a simple manner breakthrough research on innovative techniques of improving learning skills in children and memory abilities in adults
Contact : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
http://infosheet.angloinfo.com/evabondaphd
Dr. Eva Bonda, PhD is a Cognitive Neuroscientist and Clinical Psychologist specialized in Functional Imaging of the Human Brain and applying Cognitive Analysis PsychoTherapy techniques
LONDON: PSYCHODYNAMIC NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH GROUP MEETING ON THURSDAYS
Get your diaries out: The NPSA study group is now meeting regularly in London at 6:00 pm on the first Thursday of each month from October at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) in London WC1.
Modelling our study group on the many successful NPSA groups that exist internationally, our aim is to create a venue for clinicians and researchers with an interest in psychoanalysis and in working with neurological patients, from either a clinical or a research perspective.
The meetings at 6 pm are held at Room B10, The ICN, Alexandra House, 17 Queens Square, London WC1 (closest tube is Russell Square). If you are interested in meeting monthly to discuss these and related issues please contact:
Aikaterini (Katerina) Fotopoulou at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
To apply to join the group please send us a minimum of 2-3 lines, indicating your discipline and the nature of your interest. Suggestions about topics or format are welcome.
CHARLIE ROSE- BRAIN SERIES ON PBS (USA) AND ON THE WEB
Some of you may be aware of a series of Charlie Rose episodes with roundtables of leading researchers discussing different aspects of brain function. These can be viewed online at http://www.charlierose.com/view/collection/10702
Note that the episodes are posted in reverse chronological order on the website, with the first episode listed at the bottom of the page. Here's a list of the topics and guests for episodes 2-9:
2: The Perceiving Brain with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Tony Movshon (NYU), Nancy Kanwisher (MIT), Ted Adelson (MIT), and Pawan Sinha (MIT).
3: The Acting Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Daniel Wolpert (University of Cambridge), John Krakauer (Columbia), Thomas Jessell (Columbia), and Robert Brown (Massachusetts General Hospital).
4: The Social Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller), Giacomo Rizzolatti (Parma, IT), Kevin Pelphrey (Yale), and Gerald Fischbach (Simons Foundation).
5: The Developing Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Elizabeth Spelke (Harvard), Patricia Kuhl (University of Washington), Huda Zoghbi (Baylor College of Medicine), and Stephen Warren (Emory University School of Medicine).
6: The Aging Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Brenda Milner (Montreal Neurological Institute), Larry Squire (UCSD), Scott Small (Columbia), and John Hardy (University College London).
7: The Emotional Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Nora Volkow (National Institute on Drug Abuse), Eric Nestler (Mt. Sinai), Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge), and Daniel Salzman (Columbia).
8: The Anxious Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Joseph LeDoux (NYU), David Anderson (California Institute of Technology), Kerry Ressler (Emory), and Antonio Damasio (University of Southern California).
9: The Mentally Ill Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins University), Jeffrey Lieberman (Columbia), Elyn Saks (University of Southern California), Stephen Warren (Emory), and Helen Mayberg (Emory).
10: The Disordered Brain, with Charlie Rose, Eric Kandel (Columbia), John Krakauer (Columbia), Mahlon DeLong (Emory), John Donoghue (Brown), and Nancy Bonini (University of Pennsylvania).
THE VIRTUAL BRAIN
Go to http://www.thehumanbrain.info/book/index.php for an awesome source of information on the brain.
To sample what's available, click on "Head & Brain", choose "Sagittal slices", click on the "Start" button of the Interactive Atlas, then go up to the little head with slices through it in the upper right hand corner, click on the different levels, and see the real brain (in skull!) at different levels. Then click on dots on the brain or the cartoon, and it will give you the name of the structure; click on the structure in the list and the area will be pointed to on the brains.
KIDS COMPANY
Kids Company, one of the UK's best-loved charities, is selling virtual neurons to raise money to fund research on the effects of abuse and neglect on the brains of children to help change the way social services and other agencies view these young victims.
Visit http://www.kidspeaceofmind.org/# - it's impressive - and why not buy a neuron or two while you are there?
For German Speakers
For German speakers, we are pleased to share the news of the publication of a book about the work of the Frankfurt/Cologne Study Group with stroke patients. The book is edited by Klaus Röckerath, Laura Viviana Strauss, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Hg.). The Title is Verletztes Gehirn – Verletztes Ich. Treffpunkte zwischen Psychoanalyse und Neurowissenschaften with a foreword by Mark Solms
Go here to purchase a copy: http://www.v-r.de/en/items/1001004398/
DON'T MESS WITH YOUR MIND!
E.BOOK for kids about drugs by Dr Brian Johnson
The goal is to make kids more aware of the brain and psychological effects of drugs, and of the huge profits in the addictive drug industry - before they first use them, or soon after.
Go to: www.gegensatzpress.com/zombies to download in page- turner format.
PROJECTIONS
WINNER OF THE 2008 AAP/PSP PROSE AWARD FOR BEST NEW JOURNAL IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES!
Published in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and The Forum for Movies and Mind, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that explores the ways in which recent advancements in fields such as cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, genetics and evolution help to increase our understanding of film, and how film itself facilitates investigations into the nature and function of the mind. The journal also incorporates articles on the visual arts and new technologies related to film. The aims of the journal are to explore these subjects, facilitate a dialogue between people in the sciences and the humanities, and bring the study of film to the forefront of contemporary intellectual debate. Follow the link to browse the latest Table of Contents and articles.
For additional information, including subscription details as well as submission guidelines, go to the website or contact the journal directly at: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
FACEBOOK GROUP
Neuropsychoanalysis has a Facebook Group (courtesy of Joseph Dodds) which already has over 1000 members.
"A good introduction to some basic areas of overlap between psychoanalytic and neuroscientific domains is Mark Solms 'sigmund freud today' audio download from the npsa website (see above). Its free as an audio file or you can buy it as a dvd. For other info see earlier discussion posts on recommended reading." (Joseph Dodds)
If you would like to have a look or join in, here is the link. (You will need to register with Facebook to have access.)
NEUROCULTURES WORKSHOP
You can now watch and listen to some of the presentations at the "Neurocultures workshop" that BIOS* co-organized with the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. *(Centre for Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, London School of Economics & Political Science)
Emily Martin, Nikolas Rose, Fernando Vidal and Allan Young's presentations can be viewed at:
http://mediathek.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/mediathekPublic/neurocultures/Speeches/Emily-Martin.html
The rest will be posted gradually in the coming weeks or months.
NORMAN HOLLAND, LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN
Norman Holland's new book uses neuropsychoanalysis to explain how our brains make pleasure from stories, poems, plays and movies. Why do we feel glad when Jane Austen's heroine gets her man? Why do we believe and enjoy things as improbable as Spider-Man? Even though we know they are just ink on a page or light on a screen.
We respond in an anomalous way because we know we will not act toward Spider-Man, Elizabeth Bennet, or Mr. Darcy. That knowledge changes systems in our brains. This is only one of the special ways our brains function as we go through the literary process, from the creation of literature to being transported, to “poetic faith,” to enjoyment, to meaning, and finally to evaluation.
Holland is Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the University of Florida, where he is also a faculty member of the McKnight Brain Institute. He founded the PSYART online forum with more than 800 members, also the PsyArt online journal. This is Holland's fifteenth book applying psychology to the arts.
At www.literatureandthebrain.com, you can read the Table of Contents and first chapter and also order the book.
JUNIOR INVESTIGATORS INTEREST GROUP
The Neuropsychoanalysis Junior Investigators Interest Group - 'The NeuropsA JiiG'- is an informal forum for junior members of the field to meet and exchange perspectives.
If you are interested, please contact Katerina Fotopoulou at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Tobi Nolte at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
MEANWHILE... In New York a group for young researchers in neuropsychoanalysis has also been initiated, The Young Investigators Group. If you are interested in the New York group, please contact Maggie Zellner at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .