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2010 Events

January 26, 2010: Monthly  Meeting, Reem  Tarazi, Ph.D.,
Assistant Prof, Dept. of  Psychiatry, Drexel University/St.  Christopher’s 
Hospital Topic: "Transition from Adolescence to  Adulthood"

February 24, 2010: Monthly  Meeting: Stephanie  Cosentino, Ph.D., Assistant Prof, Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University 
Topic: "Metacognition in  Alzheimer’s Disease"

March 31, 2010: Monthly Meeting: Stephen Moelter, Ph.D., Associate Prof., Dept. of  Psychology, University of the Sciences
Topic: "Cognitive and  Biological Markers of Dementia: A Review and Update"

April 28, 2010: Monthly Meeting: PNS  Awards and Presentations by Student Award Winners

1)   President’s Award Winner: Rosemarie Manfredi, Psy.D. Widener University
"Executive Functioning in  High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders: Relationship to Social and Adaptive  Skills".

2)  Francis Fields Memorial Award Winner: M. Meredith Gillis, M.A., Drexel University
"Neurocognitive Functioning of an Adolescent Male with Bilateral Thalamic Stroke"

PNS  Mentor Award Presentation:  Thomas Swirsky-Sacchetti, Ph.D.

May  22, 2010: 24th Annual Spring Colloquium (6 CE Credits) 9:00AM - 3:30PM


Thomas D. Marcotte, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, HIV  Neurobehavioral  Research Center, University of California, San Diego 
& J.  Cobb Scott, Ph.D., Department of  Psychiatry, Yale  University School of Medicine
"Neuropsychology of  Everyday Functioning: Translating  Laboratory/Clinic Performance to the Real  World"

June 23, 2010: Networking Meeting/Neuropsychology Happy Hour Landmark Americana Tap and Grill

July  23-25, 2010: 
Penn Conference on Clinical Neuroscience and Society. 
 This was not a PNS event, but PNS  members will be interested in this neuroethics conference.  Download the  brochure here:  Clinical  Neurosci and Soc Conf.pdf

or  visit the UPenn Center for Neuroscience and Society
website:
www.neuroethics.upenn.edu/index.php/events/clinical-conference

Friday, September 24th, 2010: Co-Sponsored Event with the  Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Temple University
Department of Communication Sciences  (5 CE credits)
"New Directions in Sentence Processing and Rehabilitation of Sentence Processing Disorders"

October 21, 2010: Monthly Meeting:  Melissa Lamar, Ph.D.
Topic: "Using Acute Tryptophan Depletion to Understand the Role of Neurochemical Alterations in Functional Brain Recruitment with Normal Aging"

December 9, 2010: Networking Meeting/Neuropsychology Happy Hour


2010  FALL SYMPOSIUM ON PEDIATRIC NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Recorded on Friday, November 5th, 2010
Follow this link (http://rmcp.dcollege.net/playlists/20218/html) to  an online video recording of the following presentations:


1.  Introduction
Douglas Chute (Drexel University,
Stein  Fellow), Tania Giovannetti (Temple University), Brian Daly (Drexel University), Andrew  Zabel (Kennedy Krieger  Institute)

2.  Dyscalculia
Stein Fellow Keynote: Avishai Henik  (Ben-Gurion University)

3. The role of the neuropsychologist in  special education advocacy   
Felicia  Hurewitz (Drexel University) & Sonja Kerr (Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia)

4.  Genomics and neuropsychological  assessment
Ruben Gur  (University of  Pennsylvania)

5.  Development of ADHD In preschoolers:  neuroimaging and behavioral correlates
Mark Mahone (Kennedy Krieger  Institute)

6.  Executive control and transition to  adulthood in spina bifida
Andrew Zabel (Kennedy Krieger  Institute)

7. Pediatric sickle cell disease: 
Neuropsychological assessment, treatment, and transition issues
Brian Daly (Drexel University) & Reem Tarazi  (Drexel University)