Presidential Symposium on Neuroscience

Welcome to the Tulane University Presidential Symposium on Neuroscience
Monday, January 14, 2002

Brain research is the "final frontier" in biomedical research. Understanding ourselves--how we function in societies, how we gain and lose abilities over time, what drives our motivated behaviors, how we perceive the world around us, how we process information--is the ultimate goal of research in neuroscience. Today, that research is taking many exciting directions, including:

• Developing new technology that allows us an unprecedented penetration into our brains and minds.
• Exploring novel and dramatic approaches to treatment of human diseases, including dementia, depression, stroke, and addictive disorders.
• Understanding the fundamentals of normal cognition, its development, and its underlying mechanisms, which will allow us to identify and manipulate the factors that lead to age-related and pathological deterioration of the nervous system and cognitive function.

Tulane University has invited three internationally recognized scientists who study the basic mechanisms of the brain to present two lectures on January 14, 2002. All three scientists have been elected to the most prestigious honorary scientific organization in the world, the National Academy of Sciences. These three scientists will attempt to forecast how our understanding of the brain will change in the future during two programs, one a technical symposium entitled "Neuroscience in the New Millennium: Brain, Mind and Body" and in a lecture geared toward the general public called "Your Brain's Future."

Complete list of experts and topics

This is the second in a series of Tulane University Presidential Symposia. The purpose of these programs is to bring to Tulane scholars, thinkers and policy makers from across the country to engage the community in the free and vigorous exchange of ideas.

Past Presidential Symposia

• "Bioterrorism: What You Need To Know" - November 8, 2001