NRD Program Schedule

9:00-9:10 AM
Welcome
Joshua Brumberg, Ph.D.,
Organizer and Founder Neuropsychology Research Day

Session I:
Moderator: Janine Flory, Ph.D. Director of Clinical Training Neuropsychology

9:10-9:25
Role of Dopamine in the Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala in Mediating the Acquisition and Expression of Fructose-Conditioned Taste.
Sonia Bernal (Bodnar Lab)

9:25-9:40
Outsourced memory: Do alarms reduce monitoring in a dual task?
Anna Obraztsova (Golub Lab)

9:40-9:55
Neocortical processing in the mouse sensori-motor system
Eric Chen (Brumberg Lab)

9:55-10:10
Hippocampal changes in the wake of a seizure, one way street, or traffic circle?
Daniel McCloskey, Ph.D.

10:10-10:25
The relationship between attention, behavior, and caregiver stress
in patients with Alzheimer disease undergoing cholinesterase
inhibitor treatment.
Lillian Kaplan (Foldi Lab)

10:25-10:45
Questions

10:45-11:00
Coffee Break

Session II:
Moderator: Richard Bodnar, Ph.D., Chair, Psychology Department

11:05-11:20
Functional analysis in clinical treatment
Peter Sturmey, Ph.D.

11:20-11:35
The effects of VTA AMPA receptor blockade during cocaine
seeking in rats
Brian C. Nolan, Ph.D.

11:35-11:50
An Examination of Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Asperger Syndrome
Kimberley Rogers (Borod Lab)

11:50-12:00 PM
Questions

12:00-1:00 PM
Lunch

Session III: Keynote Speaker
1:00-2:30

Words of Welcome
Thomas C. Strekas, Ph.D.
Dean Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Queens College, CUNY

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Joshua Brumberg, Ph.D.
Program Head, Neuropsychology Ph.D. Subprogram
Department of Psychology, Queens College, CUNY

Keynote Speaker
Jonathan D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology
Director, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior
Director, Program in Neuroscience
Princeton University

2:30-2:35
Break

Session IV:
Moderator: Joshua C. Brumberg, Ph.D. Program Head Neuropsychology

2:35-2:50
Behavioral Regulation of Neuronal Lifespan in the Adult Zebra Finch Model System
Sara Wildstein (Pytte Lab)

2:50-3:05
Finding Mr. Wrong: Divergences in Mate Preferences and Mate
Selection
Claudia Brumbaugh, Ph.D.

3:05-3:20
Are saccades during memory search epiphenomenal? Saccadic suppression does not affect performance on non-visual cognitive tasks characterized by high eye movement rate.
Dragana Micic, Ph.D.

3:20-3:35
Noradrenergic Modulation of Attention
Suzanne Clerkin (Halperin Lab)

3:35-3:50
Vascular Depression: A distinct diagnostic entity
Joel Sneed, Ph.D.

3:50-4:05
Long-term effects of VEGF administered during status epilepticus
Janice Lenzer (Croll Lab)

4:05-4:20 pm
Questions