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We are pleased to share a fantastic professional development opportunity offered by the Luria Neuroscience Institute and featuring renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP.
Inaugural 5‑day Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposium (February 17–21st, 2020):
Dr. Goldberg has been a frequent visitor to Bali for 30 years and is currently engaged in cross-cultural neuroscience research with two major Indonesian universities. He personally designed this unique and comprehensive event to discuss cutting edge cognitive neuroscience and state-of-the-art clinical insights with a small group of participants in one of the most iconic destinations in the world: Bali, Indonesia.
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Learn more and Register HERE
(10%-off discount code: sharpbrains)
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About the Speaker:
Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP. is a clinical neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology at NYU School of Medicine, and Diplomate of The American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology. He has authored numerous research papers on functional cortical organization, hemispheric specialization, frontal lobe functions and dysfunction, memory and amnesias, traumatic brain injury, dementias, and schizophrenia. Goldberg’s books The Executive Brain (2001), The Wisdom Paradox (2005), and The New Executive Brain (2009) have met with international acclaim. He coauthored The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness (2013), named a Best Book by AARP. A sought-after educator, he has lectured worldwide. Elkhonon Goldberg was a student and close associate of the great neuropsychologist Alexander Luria.
About the Agenda:
Monday
- Evolution of the brain: from thalamus to neocortex. Evolution of neuropsychology: from loci to networks.
- What is wrong with the classic view of hemispheric specialization.
- New approaches to hemispheric specialization: Cognitive novelty vs cognitive routines.
- Hemispheric specialization across species, including humans.
- Sex (or gender?) differences and cerebral hemispheres. Why this is important for clinicians.
- Emotions, cerebral hemispheres, and neurostimulation for depression.
Tuesday
- Frontal lobes in evolution. Executive functions and their components.
- The triple-decker: frontal lobes, striatum, and the dopamine systems.
- Neural basis of executive functions. Subdivisions of the frontal lobes.
- Major frontal-lobe syndromes: dorsolateral, orbitofrontal, reticulo-frontal, and others.
- Decision making in ambiguous environments. Agent-centered decision making.
- How animal research helps understand human working memory.
Wednesday
- Neuroscience of creativity. Neuroimaging and genetic findings.
- Hyperfrontality and hypofrontality in the normal and abnormal brain.
- Intelligence and the brain. “IQ intelligence” vs real-life intelligence.
- Arousal, attention, and consciousness.
- Voluntary vs automatic attention and their disorders. ADHD and dysexecutive syndrome.
- “Memory based learning disability” – a neglected syndrome.
Thursday
- Connecting the dots between disparate disorders: frontal lesions, Parkinson’s disease and Tourette syndrome.
- Rethinking Tourette syndrome and ADHD.
- Cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease. Why executive deficit is often overlooked.
- Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease: merely related or variants of the same disorder?
- Frontotemporal dementia and its variants: separate until they are not.
- Neuroplasticity and the lifespan: How neurobiology and environment interact in the age of innovation.
Friday
- Cognitive impairment in traumatic brain injury. When “mild TBI” is not so mild.
- Cognitive impairment in neuropsychiatric disorders: schizophrenia and affective disorders.
- Connecting the dots again: Schizophrenia and Frontotemporal dementia.
- “Punding,” dopamine, and the mechanisms of addiction.
- Cross-cultural neuroscience: Why we need it today more than ever.
- Summing up: What we have learned and future directions.
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Learn more and Register HERE
(10%-off discount code: sharpbrains)
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