Tor D. Wager, Ph.D.: June 6th, 2017
"Reproducible, Generalizable Brain Models of Affective Processes”

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
11:00am - 11:45 am    Registration and Lunch, lunch stops being served at 11:45 - no exceptions
12:00pm - 1:00pm     Program

Dr. Wager is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and a faculty member in the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in cognitive psychology in 2003, and served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Columbia University from 2004-2009. Since
2010, he has directed Boulder’s Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience laboratory. He has a deep interest in how thinking influences affective experiences, affective learning,
and brain-body communication. His laboratory also focuses on the development and deployment of analytic methods, and has developed several publically available
software toolboxes for fMRI analysis.
 
Learning points:
 
1. Understand how pain and emotions are represented in the brain.
2. Examine the role of scientific transparency and reproducibility in modern brain scanning experiments.
3. Differentiate between pain and emotional networks in the brain.
 
REGISTER TO ATTEND!
 
To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com

​Each hemisphere of the brain performs special functions that allows the brain as a whole to work more efficiently.  How do these two halves work as a whole? What are patterns of right brain and left brain functions?  How did these functions evolve through time and within individuals?  What relevance does handedness have on mental illness?  In this talk, we will explore lateralization of human brain function and how the balancing of specialized components makes a healthy whole.

Dr. Yoon-Hee Cha is a neurologist who earned her medical degree from Mayo Medical School. While at the University of California-Los Angeles, she developed an interest in using functional MRI, EEG, and neuromodulation techniques to study and treat disorders of motion perception.  She joined LIBR in August 2012.  Her current work focuses on a group of patients with mal de debarquement syndrome (MdDS) as well as disorders of spatial processing related to anxiety and migraine.