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Program Schedule May 13 and 14, 2004 Roone Arledge Auditorium Alfred Lerner Hall May 13, 2004 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Session I: Brain Structure Welcoming Remarks Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University Neuroscience and Neuropathology—Converging Streams Gerald D. Fischbach, MD, Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Columbia University Potassium Channels Roderick MacKinnon, MD, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor; Head, Molecular Neurobiology & Biophysics; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Rockefeller University The Assembly of Neural Circuits in the Developing Brain Thomas M. Jessell, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University Scents and Sensibility: Towards a Molecular Logic of Perception Richard Axel, MD, Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Pathology, Columbia University The Storage and Persistence of Memory Eric Kandel, MD, Professor of Physiology and Psychiatry, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University; Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute May 13, 1:30 p.m.–5 p.m. Session II: Brain Function and Disease Moderator: Richard Mayeux, MD, Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Columbia University Brain Development in Healthy, Hyperactive and Psychotic Children Judith L. Rapoport, MD, Chief, Child Psychiatry Branch at National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health Rett Syndrome and MeCP2: Steady Development Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD, Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology, Molecular and Human Genetics, Division of Neuroscience, Developmental Biology and Interdisciplinary Program in Cell and Molecular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Neurodevelopmental Disorders Sir Michael Rutter, MD, Professor, Medical Research Council, Center for Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry; Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London Drug Addiction: The Brain in Disarray Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health May 14, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Session III: Biology of Mind Moderator David Cohen, PhD, Professor of Biological Sciences and of Psychiatry at Columbia University. fMRI Investigations of Human Extrastriate Cortex: People, Places, and Things Nancy Kanwisher, PhD, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Decision-Making and the Neural Representation of Value William T. Newsome, Ph.D, Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Towards the Neuronal Basis of Consciousness Christof Koch, PhD, The Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology and Professor of Computation and Neural Systems, Executive Officer for Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology Consciousness, Causation, and Reduction John R. Searle, PhD, Mills Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley Concluding Remarks Nancy Wexler, PhD, Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Symposium Co-chairs Thomas Jessell and Joanna Rubinstein Promotional assistance provided by Nature and Wyeth Research. |
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 Leading neuroscientists gathered at this C250 symposium to discuss the accomplishments and limitations of reductionist and holistic approaches to examining the nervous system and mental functions. 
  View video highlights of the symposium and a transcript of the proceedings.
 Quotations from the speakers.
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 University Professor Kandel's work on memory and learning earned him the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
 Explore the research, teaching, and patient care at CUMC.
 Event speakers Koch and Kanwisher in The New York Times.
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