with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. currently serves as the 47th Vice President of the United States under President Barack Obama. A graduate of the University of...

Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD

• neuroscience,
• treatment development

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD is senior fellow, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, and Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy...

Maurizio Fava, Larry J. Young, Eric Nestler, Helen S. Mayberg, Linea Johnson

• Addiction,
• Emotion,
• Motivation,
• Oxytocin,
• Social Behavior,
• depression,
• neuroscience,
• reward,
• social bonding,
• vasopressin

Introduction from Chair - Maurizio Fava, MDFrontiers of Social Cognition - Larry J. Young, PhDSocial relationships are at the core of every healthy...

Meryl Comer

Meryl Comer is an Emmy-award winning reporter, producer, and business talk show host with over 30 years of experience in broadcast journalism. She...

Tom Carew, Meryl Comer, Roberto Malinow, Randy L. Buckner

Introduction from Chair - Tom Carew, PhDWe will address the general topic of brain mechanisms of learning and memory. We will discuss: (1) The basic...

Kevin Kit Parker, PhD

• neuroscience,
• traumatic brain injury

This is an overview of how the brain is injured on the battlefield, the road map to developing novel diagnostics and therapeutic strategies for brain...

Peter Strick, Peter B. Sack, Howard J. Federoff, Andrew Schwartz

• Movement,
• brain-machine interface,
• neuroscience

Introduction from Chair - Peter Strick, PhDAdvocate Remarks - Peter B. SackThe Potential to Modify the Course of Parkinson’s Disease - Howard...

Honorable Dick Gephardt

• medical innovation

Honorable Dick Gephardt served for 28 years in the United States House of Representatives from 1976 to 2004, representing Missouri’s 3rd...