The International Congress-Emory University
Cognition Satellite Meeting*
March 27th (pm) and March 28th 2009
The Manchester Grand Hyatt
San Diego, California
Program Schedule
Friday March 27
5:00-7:00 PM: Poster Session and Reception
Saturday March 28
8:25 am Welcome Philip D. Harvey, Emory University School of Medicine
Latest Developments in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia
Deanna Barch, Chair
8:30 AM: Introduction
Episodic Memory
8:35 Title: Neural Architecture of Episodic Memory Processes
Speaker: Charan Ranganath, University of California at Davis
9:15 Title: Schizophrenia’s Impact on Basic Prefrontal Mechanisms of Episodic Encoding and
Retrieval
Speaker: Dan Ragland, University of California at Davis
9:40 Title: Prefrontal/Hippocampal Interactions in the Control of Episodic Memory in Schizophrenia
Speaker: Deanna Barch, Washington University
Attentional Control
10:10 Title: Neural Mechanisms of Attentional Control
Speaker: John Serences, University of California at San Diego
10:50 Title: Control of Attention in Schizophrenia
Speaker: Jim Gold, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
11:15 Title: Attentional Control Deficits in Schizophrenia: Implications for Glutamate, Dopamine,
and Neuromigration Theories
Speaker: Angus MacDonald, University of Minnesota
Translational Issues
11:40 Title: Value Added: Getting Over the Incremental Validity Hurdle
Speaker: Dwight Dickinson, VA Capitol Health Care Network, Baltimore, Maryland
12:05 Title: Bringing Cognitive Neuroscience Tasks to Multi-site Trials: Challenges and Proposed
Solutions
Speaker: Richard Keefe, Duke University
1.00 pm Boxed Lunch
Lifetime course of Schizophrenia: From Elementary School to the Elder years
Philip D. Harvey, Chair
2:00 Title: Premorbid Intellectual Functioning in Schizophrenia
Speaker: Larry Seidman, Harvard Medical School
2:30 Title: Early life Characteristics of individuals Destined to Develop Schizophrenia
Speaker: Michael Davidson, University of Tel Aviv
3:00 Title: Cognitive and Functional Changes During the Prodrome
Speaker: Barbara Cornblatt, Zucker Hillside Hospital
3:30 Title: Cognitive and Brain Changes in the Early Course of Schizophrenia
Speaker: Rene Kahn, University of Utrecht
4:00 Title: Reductions in Cognitive Plasticity with Aging in Schizophrenia
Speaker: Eric Granholm, University of California San Diego
4:30 Title: The Course of Cognitive and Functional Deficits in Older Patients with Schizophrenia
Speaker: Philip Harvey, Emory University School of Medicine
(*formerly known as the Mt. Sinai Conference on Cognition)