Events/Announcements

EVENTS

Peds PLACE
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital is offering a weekly Pediatric Tele-educational Conference. The conference will be held every Thursday from 12:15 - 1:15 PM. The conference will cover a different pediatric problem each week with all the connecting sites being able to interact with the speaker and with each other in real time. The conference will begin with a case presentation which illustrates the topic to be discussed. The speaker will frequently have a written guideline covering the topic discussed, which will be posted on the Web, and will use the case presentation to guide us through the most important parts of the guideline.

NEWS RELEASES
 

December 19, 2007: CTN discovery featured in NCRR Newsletter Please read about our discovery of electrical coupling in the reticular activating system

July 19, 2007: UAMS Researchers Identify Sleep-Wake Controls with Implications for Coma Patients and Those Under Anesthesia

June 16,2006: UAMS Faculty Member Receives Award for Smell Research

May 15, 2005: UAMS Enlists Arkansas Company to Build, Market New Bicycle Exercise Trainer for Spine Injury Patients

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Mark Hallett, MD, Chief, Human Motor Control Section, National Institute for neurological Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
"Pathophysiology of Focal Dystonia and Implications for Treatment"

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Carlos H. Schenck, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"Parasomnias: REM sleep behavior disorder and Parkinsonism, and Zolpidem-Induced Sleep Related Eating Disorder"

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
David F. Dinges, Ph.D., Professor and Chief, Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
"Optimizing Neurobehavioral Performance through Biology and Technology"

Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Scott R. Whittemore, Ph.D., Henry D. Garretson Endowed Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Scientific Director, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center,
University of Louisville, Louisville KY.
"The realities and possibilities of stem cell grafting for CNS repair"

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Irving E. Vega, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR.
"Tau-associated proteins: questioning an unusual suspect in neurodegeneration"

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Robert Greene, MD, PhD, Sherry Knopf Crasilneck Distinguished Chair in Psychiatry, Vice chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
"Mediation of the homeostatic sleep response by the adenosine A1 receptor"

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Barry W. Connors, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
"Eclectic electric synapses in the mammalian brain"

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Floyd J. Thompson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, Florida
"Neurobiology and Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury-induced Spasticity"

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Robert P. Yezierski, Ph.D., Director, Comprehensive Center for Pain Research, Professor of Orthodontics, Neuroscience and Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
"The Injured Spinal Cord: A Model of Central Pain"

Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Prof. Robert McCarley, MD, Head, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University And VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
"Adenosine, sleep and sleep pathology"

Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Prof. Donald Humphrey, PhD, Departments of Physiology and Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
"Long-term, Progressive Changes in Voluntary Activation of Motor Areas in the Human Brain After Spinal Cord Injury"

Thursday, January 20, 2005
Prof. Merlin W. Donald, PHD, FRSC, Dept. Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
"Cognitive Prehistory: A Darwinian Perspective on Memory and Consciousness"

Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Prof. Shigemi Mori, MD, PHD, National Institute for Physiologicel Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
"Cerebral Control of Upright Posture and Bipedal Walking in the Japanese Monkey, M. Fuscata"