WHAT: Society for Neuroscience OR/SW WA Chapter Annual Meeting

We did it! Check out our Noggin summary of the meeting at the link…

Mental health @ McMenamin’s

WHERE: McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 SW Halsey Street, Troutdale, OR

WHEN: Friday, April 13 – Saturday, April 14

Neuroscience of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Friday, April 13

9:00 Registration and Poster Set-up

10:00 Welcome and Introductions

“We treat complex psychiatric disorders as if they’re simple…with treatments discovered by accident in the 1950’s. Basic #research on symptoms a better approach” @bita137 opening @SfNtweets Chapter mtg 🧠 #Neuroscience of neuropsychiatric disorders 🧠 https://t.co/MlWa005zam pic.twitter.com/5Cisgu2YT3

— N.W. Noggin (@NWNoggin) April 13, 2018

10:15 Abraham Palmer, Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Basic Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; The surprising role of the enzyme Glyoxalase 1 and its substrate methylglyoxal in anxiety, depression and alcohol consumption

10:45 Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D., Ruth Matarazzo Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University; Translation of anxiety into actions by prefrontal cortex neurons

11:15 Melynda Casement, Ph.D.,Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon; Reward-related brain function as a mechanism of depression in adolescent girls

11:45 Joseph Quinn, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Director, OHSU Parkinson Center and Movement Disorders Program, Oregon Health & Science University; Neuropsychiatric aspects of neurodegenerative disease

12:15 Lunch

1:30 Carolyn Jones, Ph.D., Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University; Early life sleep and social development in prairie voles: A model of autism spectrum disorder?

2:00 Sarah Karalunas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Clinical Psychology, Oregon Health & Science University; Characterizing mechanisms of change in ADHD symptoms and impairment

2:30 Eileen Ruth S. Torres, Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University; Apolipoprotein E isoforms, chronic variable stress, and cortical oxysterol levels

2:45 Jacqueline R. Thompson, Division of Neuroscience, Oregon National Primate Research Center; Aberrant behavioral regulation in juvenile Japanese macaques is associated with hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor, perinatal diet, and gestational environment

3:00 Jereme Wingert, WSU Vancouver; Perineuronal net removal decreases cue-induced reinstatement in cocaine self-administering rats

3:15 Break

4:30 Poster Session I

Griesar/Leake, Weiss, Zweig, Christian, Gupta, Harris, Boutros, Salazar, Gonzalaez

6:30 Dinner

7:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Heather Cameron, Ph.D., Chief, Section on Neuroplasticity, National Institute of Mental Health; New neurons alter hippocampal structure and function in models of depression and anxiety

MORE MEETING DETAILS: SFN ORWA 2018 schedule

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The art of neuroscience: creating networks for innovative engagement at sfn, schools, local communities & congress

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“All outstanding work, in art as well as in science, results from immense zeal applied to a great idea.” – Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Science needs investment, and engaging people builds support for research and education. Integrating arts in STEM (“STEAM”) fosters innovative engagement. We excited thousands of K-12 students, scientists, policy makers and the public about research and art during the 2017 Society for Neuroscience conference in Washington, DC.

LEARN MORE: From classrooms to Congress!

Nonprofit NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org) organizes undergraduates and graduates to collaborate and engage, building networks and inspiring academic priority students and the public about discovery in neuroscience and art. Volunteers leave classrooms and labs, and benefit from connecting across disciplines and institutions, serving as “near peer” role models, gaining skill explaining work and thinking creatively about careers. We’ve met with over 20,000 K-12 students since 2012!

LEARN MORE: Noggin Bloggin

In fall of 2017, 21 Noggin volunteers attended the Society for Neuroscience conference in DC. SfN provided complimentary registration, the Portland State University Neuroscience Club and NIH BUILD EXITO funded outreach supplies and travel for 8 PSU participants, while OHSU covered travel for their 5. The remaining 8 (4 from PSU, 4 from WSU) were supported by NW Noggin, along with housing for all 21, partly through money raised at Noggin Fest, a student-run celebration of research, music and art at Portland’s Alberta Rose Theater.

LEARN MORE: Noggin Fest 2017!

During a week in DC, in partnership with the American Brain Coalition, SfN, and the Phillips Collection, we worked with 750 students at Turner Elementary and Sidwell Friends. We staffed a popular “Art of Neuroscience” booth at SfN, and presented our volunteers, research, and evidence of outreach effectiveness to the U.S. House Neuroscience and STEAM caucuses at a “Noggin Briefing with Brains, Art & Ice Cream,” as we did previously in 2016. Three of the four caucus co-chairs represent Northwest districts we’ve visited before. At the briefing, co-sponsored by PSU, OHSU, the p:ear homeless youth center and the Portland Art Museum, we examined human cerebrums, discussed research, and crafted pipe cleaner neurons with two House members and more than 80 Congressional staff.

Building excitement and awareness of discoveries in neuroscience through arts-integrated outreach across institutional, state, federal and generational lines trains diverse new scientists to collaborate and communicate, and increases awareness and support for further investment in brain research and the arts.

Department of Psychology, Portland State University; NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org)