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Day I: Thursday, May 13, 2004

Session I: Brain Structure


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Neuroscience and Neuropathology—Converging Streams
Gerald D. Fischbach, MD, Columbia University
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Potassium Channels
Roderick MacKinnon, MD, Rockefeller University
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The Assembly of Neural Circuits in the Developing Brain
Thomas M. Jessell, PhD, Columbia University
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Scents and Sensibility: Towards a Molecular Logic of Perception
Richard Axel, MD, Columbia University
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The Storage and Persistence of Memory
Eric Kandel, MD, Columbia University
Session II: Brain Function and Disease

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Introduction to Session II
Richard Mayeux, MD, Columbia University
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Brain Development in Healthy, Hyperactive, and Psychotic Children
Judith L. Rapoport, MD, National Institutes of Health
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Rett Syndrome and MeCP2: Steady Development
Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Sir Michael Rutter, MD, King's College London
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Drug Addiction: The Brain in Disarray
Nora D. Volkow, MD, National Institutes of Health
Day II: Friday, May 14, 2004

Session III: Biology of Mind


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fMRI Investigations of Human Extrastriate Cortex: People, Places, and Things
Nancy Kanwisher, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Decision Making and the Neural Representation of Value
William T. Newsome, PhD, Stanford University
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Towards the Neuronal Basis of Consciousness
Christof Koch, PhD, California Institute of Technology
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Consciousness, Causation, and Reduction
John R. Searle, PhD, University of California at Berkeley
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Concluding Remarks
Nancy Wexler, PhD, Columbia University


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