COMPLETED EVENTS FOR 2015
January Meeting: Wednesday, January 28th, 2015
Speaker: David Roalf, PhD, Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section.
Topic: Within-individual Variability of Cognitive Performance in Health & Disease.
Time: 6:00-7:00pm (1 CE*)
Location: Philadelphia VA Medical Center, 3900 Woodland Ave., Room 7A141
Learning Objectives:
1) To understand the utility and neural correlates of cognitive variability.
2) To understand the relevance of cognitive variability in normal development and brain disorders.
February Meeting: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Speaker: Katya Rascovsky, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Topic: Cognitive and Behavioral Aspects of Frontotemporal Dementia.
March Meeting: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
Speaker: David Libon, PhD, Professor of Neurology at Drexel University College of Medicine
Topic: 2014 PNS Mentor Award Presentation/Lecture
Learning Objectives:1. Appreciate the use of person- centered statistics as a means to characterize AD/ VaD pts.
2. Note the phenotypic differences on neuropsychological tests in statistically- determined AD/ VaD groups.3. Understand the diagnostic implications regarding classifying AD/ VaD using person- centered statistics.