2008 Conference
ISNR 16th Annual Conference | San Antonio, Texas | August 28-September 1, 2008
Thank you to all of our presenters and attendees for an excellent program!
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Oral, Keynote, Invited and Student Presentations (.pdf format) |
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BrainTrain - Lanyard Sponsor | NovaTech EEG - T-Shirt Sponsor
BioMedical Instruments - Internet Access at the Conference
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Adam Clarke, PhD
Adam Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His area of expertise is the EEG of children with ADHD, in which he has published over 50 papers on the topic.
Roberto Pasqual-Marqui, PhD
Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui received his PhD degree in biological sciences from the Cuban Neuroscience Center in 1988. He was the head of the Neurophysics Laboratory at the Cuban Neuroscience Center from 1981-1992. In 1992, he joined the Brain Mapping Laboratory, Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Zurich. Since 1996, he has been a senior research scientist at the KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich. He received the "Privatedozent" degree in 2004 from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich. His research interests include the development of techniques for functional mapping of the human brain based on EEG and MEG, the analysis of the spatio-temporal properties of brain electric activity and its relation to the mind (cognition), and the development of tools for pattern recognition (in general).
Walter Freeman, PhD
Walter J Freeman studied physics and mathematics at M.I.T., electronics in the Navy in World War II, philosophy at the University of Chicago, medicine at Yale University, internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, and neuropsychiatry at UCLA. He has taught brain science in the University of California at Berkeley since 1959, where he is Professor of the Graduate School. He received his M.D. cum laude in 1954, the Bennett Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry in 1964, a Guggenheim in 1965, the MERIT Award from NIMH in 1990, and the Pioneer Award from the Neural Networks Council of the IEEE in 1992. He was President of the International Neural Network Society in 1994, is Life Fellow of the IEEE, and Chair, IEEE Oakland-East Bay Section, EMBS, 2006. He has authored over 450 articles and 4 books: "Mass Action in the Nervous System" 1975, "Societies of Brains" 1995, "Neurodynamics 2000, and "How Brains Make Up Their Minds" 2001.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Mario Beauregard, PhD
Mario Beauregard is an associate research professor in the Departments of Psychology and Radiology, Neuroscience Research Center at the University of Montreal. His areas of expertise include neural basis of emotion regulation and neurofeedback. He was selected in 2000 by the World Media Net as one of the "One hundred pioneers of the 21st century". He has also received the Joel F. Lubar award from ISNR in 2006.
Dirk DeRidder, MD, PhD
Dirk De Ridder is a neurosurgeon, working in Antwerp, Belgium, whose research is focused on the pathophysiology and treatment of phantom perceptions. He developed the technique of electrical auditory cortex stimulation for tinnitus and somatosensory cortex stimulation for pain. Recently also implants were performed for auditory hallucinations.
Eran Zaidel, PhD
Dr. Zaidel's research interests include: Hemispheric specialization, inter-hemispheric interactions and hemispheric control; right-hemisphere language; error monitoring; structure and function of the human corpus callosum. He is a member of the Brain Research Institute and Professor of Behavioral Neurosciences at UCLA, Deparmnet of Psychology.
M. Barry Sterman, PhD
Barry Sterman is Professor Emeritus in the departments of Neurobiology and Biobehavioral Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.Dr. Sterman began working in the field of neurofeedback in the 1960's when he began to explore phenomena associated with brainwaves. He is the president of the Society for the Advancement of Brain Analysis.
Filipe Fregni, MD, PhD
Dr. Fregni has been the Director of Clinical Trials Network at The Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation since March, 2003. He is also Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. His interests lie in the study of methods of non-invasive brain stimulation such as repetitive magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
Guillermo van Weilink, MD
Guillermo van Wielink is a pediatric neurologist with post doctoral training specialties in neurology and pediatricneurology from John Hopkins Hospital and National Institutes of Mental Health in Mexico. He is the author of eight books about the brain and many on AD/HD.
Martien de Voigt, PhD
Dr. de Voigt is a full professor in Physics, nuclear medical applications, retired. Licensed Consultant and Docent Tomatis method, Mozart-Brain-Lab, Belgium. Tomatis Auditory therapeutic centre, Netherlands.
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Information on CEs
Satisfactory completion: Participants must have paid tuition fee, attended their chosen sessions in their entirety and completed an online evaluation form in order to receive a certificate of attendance. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Certificates are available immediately after completing the online evaluation form.
ADA Statement: ADA accommodations will be made in accordance with the law. If you require ADA accommodations, please notify ISNR in advance of the program.
Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of The Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior, A Medical Education Company (IAHB-AMEDCO) and International Society for Neurofeedback & Research (ISNR). IAHB-AMEDCO is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Statement
The IAHB-AMEDCO designates this educational activity for a maximum of 41 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Psychologists
ISNR is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ISNR maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Maximum of 41 hours.
Professional Counselors
This program is co-sponsored by Amedco and ISNR. Amedco is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for certified counselors. We adhere to NBCC continuing education guidelines. Provider #5633. Maximum of 41 hours.
Social Workers
This course is co-sponsored by R. Cassidy Seminars and ISNR. R. Cassidy Seminars, ASWB provider #1082, is approved as a provider for continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards, (www.aswb.org), phone: 1-800-225-6880) through the Approved Education (ACE) program. R. Cassidy Seminars maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers will receive up to 41 continuing education clock hours in participating in this course.
Texas Marriage and Family Therapists
Amedoc is an approved CE Sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage & Family Therapists. Maximum of 41 credit hours.