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View or download the Final Program and all abstracts that will be presented at the 40th Annual Meeting. This document is searchable. Clicking on a title of an abstract in the final program will take you directly to the page where the entire abstract appears.

The program is also listed below. These sessions are included in the meeting registration fee. Select sessions are available for Continuing Education credit and are noted below. In order to obtain credit for these sessions, you will be required to prove your attendance by submitting an attendance slip at the completion of the session and answering an online evaluation.

You can also download a program overview here

Please refer to the Continuing Education Program for additional continuing education courses.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Students of INS (SINS) Grant Writing Workshop Presented by Mark Aloia and Rob Paul - Read More
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM: Poster Session 1: Cognitive Rehabilitation/MS and Demylenation/Memory/Cross-cultural
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM: Paper Session 1: Video, Web, and Computer Technology in Assessment
  Symposium 1: Social Outcomes in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Perspectives from Social Neuroscience and Developmental Psychology
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Reconsidering the Role of White Matter Disease in Aging and Dementia
Presented by Adam Brickman, INS Early Career Award Winner
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM: Poster Symposium: Transdisciplinary Advances in Applied Neuropsychology in Venezuela
6:15 PM - 7:00 PM: Distinguished Career Award Ceremony
7:00 PM - 7:45 PM: Wednesday Evening Reception
   
Thursday, February 16, 2012
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Invited Symposium: Frontiers of Cognitive Neuroscience   
Chair: Michael Cole
Panelists: Mark D’Esposito, Bob Knight, and Anna Christina Nobre
  Paper Session 2: Brain and Systemic Cancer
  Symposium 2: Surviving Prosperity: Metabolic Syndrome and the Brain
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM: Poster Session 2: ADHD/Learning Disabilities/Language/Autism
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Paper Session 3: Cognitive Control Functions
  Symposium 3: The Cognitive Effects of Neurostimulation Therapies for the Treatment of Depression
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Invited Address: The Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Episodic Memory: Past, Present, and Future
Presented by  Morris Moscovitch
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Poster Session 3: Assessment and Psychometrics/Drug and Toxin-related Disorders/Callosal and Laterality
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Invited Symposium: Applied Memory and Hippocampal Functioning: Effects of Age and Disease
(1.5 CE credits or .15 ASHA CEU)
Chair: Ramona Hopkins
Panelists:  C. Brock Kirwan, Craig Stark,  Adam Brickman, and Ramona Hopkins
  Symposium 4: Transdisciplinary Collaboration Between Neuropsychology and Speech-Language Pathology
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Symposium 5: In Memoriam: A Neuropsychological Appreciation for the Life of Byron P. Rourke
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM: Poster Session 4: Cancer/Emotional Processes/Psychopathology
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM: Symposium 7: Considerations for Structural Neuroimaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Poster Session 5: Epilepsy/Genetics and Genetic Disorders/Medical Disorders (Child and Adult)
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Invited Address: Fronto-Parietal Interactions in Working Memory: Monitoring versus Manipulation 
Presented by Michael Petrides
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM: Symposium 6: Binge Drinking and Neurocognition in Youth: Evidence from Cross-sectional and Prospective Neuroimaging Studies
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM: Birch Lecture:  Memory: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Presented by Brenda Milner
   
Friday, February 17, 2012
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Invited Address: Social Cognition and the Frontal Lobes: Amazing What Patients Can Teach You if You Just Listen, Observe, Think and Measure    (1 CE credits or .1 ASHA CEU)
Presented by Don Stuss
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Paper Session 4: Cognitive Aging
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM: Poster Session 6: Behavioral Neurology/Forensic Neuropsychology/Adult and Child TBI
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Invited Address: Hemispheric Differences in Learning and Memory: Insights from Deficit Patterns and from Functional Neuroimaging
Presented by Marilyn Jones-Gotman
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Paper Session 5: Mild Cognitive Impairment
  Paper Session 6: ADHD and Learning Disabilities
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Poster Session 7: Executive and Frontal Lobe Functions/Malingering and Effort
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM: Paper Session: Showcase of Outstanding Student Research
Organized by Students of INS (SINS)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Symposium 8: Common Data Elements in Neurological Research
  Symposium 9: Current Controversies in Parkinson Disease
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM: Invited Symposium: The Interdisciplinary Assessment and Treatment of Learning Disabilities: A Team’s use of Neurodevelopmental Models and Empirical Methods to Produce Successful Outcomes  (2 CE credits or .2 ASHA CEU)
Chair: Tim Conway
Panelists: Teresa Bruney, Stacy Fretheim, Tamara Duckworth Warner, Lorie Richards, and Kenneth Heilman
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM: Poster Session 8: Cognitive Neuroscience/ Electrophysiology/Functional and Structural Neuroimaging
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM: Paper Session 7: Traumatic Brain Injury (Adult)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Symposium 10: Recent Advances in the Study of Fatigue
  Poster Session 9: Aging/HIV, AIDS, and Infectious Disease
 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Invited Address: Neuroadaptation to Alcohol Dependence: Consequences and Opportunity for Recovery    (1 CE credits or .1 ASHA CEU)
Presented by Edith Sullivan
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM: Presidential Address: Neuropsychology in the Era of Translational Neuroscience:  Reflecting on the Field of Brain and Memory 
Presented by  Russell Bauer, INS President
6:15 PM - 6:45 PM: INS Business Meeting
6:45 PM - 7:30 PM: Friday Evening Reception
   
Saturday, February 18, 2012
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Paper Session 8: Ecologically-Valid Assessment and Treatment
  Symposium 11: Are They Faking or Is It Real? Research on Symptom Validity Testing for Learning Disability and ADHD Assessment
  Symposium 12: Brain Electrophysiology of Cognitive Processes: Transdisciplinarity Essential
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Poster Session 10: Dementia/Stroke/Visuospatial Abilities
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Paper Session 9: Cognition in Low Birth Weight/Premature Birth
  Symposium 13: Empirically-based Cognitive Rehabilitation from Healthy Aging to Alzheimer’s
  Symposium 14: Korsakoff’s Syndrome Revisited with Neuroimaging and Translational Investigations
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Paper Session 10: Psychopathology
  Paper Session 11: Pediatric Structural Neuroimaging
  Paper Session 12: Cognitive Functioning in Epilepsy

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