www.psychspace.com心理学空间网Department and University Service
Departmental Specialties and Dissertation Committee Service 2005 Eliza Congdon, Brian W. Haas 2004 Zenab Amin 2002 David J. Echevarria, Charles Metzing, Stewart Shankman 2001 Jennifer E. Graham, James P. Morris
Dissertation Committee Service 2009 Tsafir Greenberg, Genna Hymowitz, Jadzia Jagiellowicz 2008 Bianca Acevedo, Eliza Congdon, Xiaomeng (Mona) Xu 2007 Bryan Jones 2006 Bianca Acevedo, Eliza Congdon, Brian W. Haas, Bryan Jones, Sarah Ketay 2005 Zenab Amin, Stewart Shankman 2003-4 Wynne Schiffer (Neurobiology) 2003 David J. Echevarria, James P. Morris
Other Dissertation Committees
2009 Mary Kusenda (CSHL, Stony Brook Genetics Program)
2008 Mary Kusenda (CSHL, Stony Brook Genetics Program)
Other Departmental Committee Service Graduate Education Committee (2002-2007) Clinical Faculty Search (2004, 2009) Colloquium Committee (2002-2003) Biopsychology Faculty Search (2002) Reputation Committee (2001-02)
University Committee Service
Bioimaging Institute Executive Committee (2009-)
Imaging Project Executive Committee (2008)
Core Committee, Computational Neuroscience Center Chair Search (2007-2008)
General Advisory Council (GAC), General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) (Spring 2005-present)
University Senate, Graduate Council (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)
Simons Fellowship Committee (2002-2008)
Invited Presentations
From SNPs to epigenetic regulation of stress reactivity: new horizons. Dresden Spring School, Technische Universit.t Dresden, Germany, March 19, 2010.
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interaction in personality. St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, March 17, 2010.
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interaction in personality. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 10th, 2009.
How life leaves its fingerprints on the genome – The end of genetic determinism. Panel Discussant on “Nature and Nurture: Their Contributions to Behavior”, DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy on Nature and Nurture. Grand Rapids, MI, September 28, 2009.
The state of molecular psychology. Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 17, 2009.
Gene-Environment Interaction and the Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphism. Annual Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), Istanbul, Turkey, September 16, 2009.
The neural basis of gene-environment interactions. 36th International Congress of Physiological Science, Kyoto, Japan, July 27, 2009.
Towards epigenetic mechanisms in the human brain. Experimental Neuropsychology and Cognition Research Center (Centre de Recherche En Neuropsychologie expérimentale et Cognition-CERNEC), l'Université de Montréal, Canada, April 24, 2009
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interactions. Columbia University, New York, NY, April 15, 2009.
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interactions. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2, 2009.
Imaging Genetics of Neuroticism – A Role for Life Stress. Spring School: The ABC of Stress. University of Dresden, Germany, March 19, 2009.
Imaging Genetics of Neuroticism. 12th Annual Scientific Research Symposium sponsored by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Albuquerque, NM , March 13, 2009.
Neurogenetics of gene-environment interactions. Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia,
PA, February 25, 2009.
The Molecular Psychology of Human Emotionality. International Symposium on the Neuroscience of Emotion. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, February 9, 2009.
Serotonergic Regulation of Affect and Personality. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November 6, 2008.
Imaging Genomics. Workshop on Biology of Social Cognition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), July 14-20, 2008.
Opportunities for advancing behavioral and social research on aging: An introduction for psychological scientists. Association for Psychological Science (APS) Pre-Conference Workshop, Chicago, IL, May 22, 2008.
Brain imaging of gene x environment interactions. Society for the Study of Motivation Meeting (Pre-conference associated with Association for Psychological Science), Chicago, IL, May 22, 2008.
Neurogenetics of neuroticism and depression vulnerability. American Psychosomatic Society (APS) 66th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 12-15, 2008.
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interactions in affective processing. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Monterotondo, Italy, March 5, 2008.
Neuroethics of transcranial magnetic stimulation. Present and future of TMS. Safety and Ethical Guidelines. Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, March 6-9, 2008.
A neural model of gene-environment interactions in affective processing. Chair: Genetic Contributions to Affect. Emotion Pre-Conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Albuquerque, NM, February 7, 2008.
Neurogenetics of Personality. Tamagawa-Caltech Joint Workshop “Neural Mechanisms of Social Mind”, Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan, December 7, 2007.
Gene-Environment Interactions: Neurogenetics of Personality. Department of Psychology, Yale University, November 29, 2007.
Neural mechanisms for gene-environment interactions and their implications. Roundtable Discussion on: Genes for mental phenomena -implications for society. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, November 7, 2007.
Closing Lecture: Vulnerability for psychopathology: current trends in genomic imaging. 43rd National Psychiatry Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, October 27, 2007.
Workshop: Designing a research study in genomic imaging. 43rd National Psychiatry Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, October 27, 2007.
Genes and Emotions. Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 25, 2007.
Current Issues in Genomic Imaging. Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, October 6-9, 2007.
Neurogenetics of Emotion and Personality. Graduate Kolleg Summer School of the University of Würzburg, Kloster Bronnbach, Germany, October 8, 2007.
Neuroethics – An Overview. Brazilian Congress of Bioethics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 27, 2007.
Genomic Psychology. Summer Institute in Social Neuroscience. University of California, Santa Barbara, June 26, 2007.
Genes and Affect. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course on “Molecular Mechanisms of Arousal and Attention”. Cold Spring Harbor, Banbury Center, June 23, 2007.
Neuroticism as a Risk Factor for Depression: A Neural Model of Gene-Environment Interaction. Symposium on: Cognitive, Neural, and Genetic Components of Mood-Related and Personality Pathology, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., May 27, 2007.
Neural Correlates of Epigenetics. Society for Biological Psychiatry. 62nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 17, 2007.
Smart Drugs go to War. The Neuroethics of Enhancement: how smart are smart drugs? Dana Foundation, Washington, D.C., May 14, 2007.
Genes, Brains, and Behavior: Genomic Psychology. F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 11, 2007.
Genes and Affective Processing. Advanced Study Initiative (ASI) on Integrating Imaging and Genetics in Cognitive Research, Royal Academy of Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 10, 2007.
Neural Correlates of Emotion and Personality: the role of gene-environment interactions,
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, January 16, 2007
Neural Correlates of Emotion and Personality: the role of gene-environment interactions,
Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University, January 11, 2007.
Chair and Panelist: Session on “The body/mind shop”. Seventh international joint conference on Science and Society: "Genes, Brain/Mind and Behaviour". Co-sponsored by The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Heidelberg, Germany, November 3-4, 2006.
Discussant: Neuroscience Applications in the U.S. Army. Workshop on Opportunities in Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences for the U.S. Military. The National Academies, Washington, D.C., October 24, 2006.
Neuroscience Applications in Aviation Security. AVSEC (Aviation Security) World, Sydney, Australia, October 18, 2006.
The Serotonin Transporter Polymorphism -Neural Correlates of Action and Epigenesis,
Department of Psychology, Yale University, October 12, 2006.
Neurogenetics of Personality and Affect. Mahoney Institute of Neurological Science. University of Pennsylvania, October 3, 2006.
Organizer, Chair, and Panelist. Neuroscience and Neuroethics in the War on Terror. First International Workshop in Neuroethics and Homeland Security. Tufts University and The Boston Museum of Science, September 29, 2006.
The neurogenetic basis of personality. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Stony Brook University, June 23-27, 2006.
The biology of personality: Genetic Influences on the brain. Invited Lecture, Long Island Psychology Conference, Hofstra University, April 30, 2006.
Alumni Recognition Award Lecture: The Politics of Fear: What is there to fear? EPIIC Symposium on The Politics of Fear, Tufts University, February 23, 2006.
Neurogenetic mechanisms of affect processing in personality. Symposium on Individual Differences in Emotional Processing: Behavioral, Neural, and Genetic Mechanisms. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, January 26-28, 2006.
Molecular-genetic mechanisms of emotional brain reactivity. The 3rd Takeda PharmaScience Foundation Symposium on Frontiers in Neuro-PharmaSciences: Molecular Pathogenesis and Drug Action. Tokyo, Japan, December 6, 2005; Center of Excellence, University of Tsukuba, Japan, December 9, 2005.
Neurogenetic Foundations of Personality. Princeton University, Seminar Series on “Social Decision-making”, November 29, 2005.
Homeland Security and Neuroscience: a neuroethics perspective. EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) Colloquium on Politics of Fear. Tufts University, October 18, 2005.
Opening Lecture: Genomic imaging of personality: Towards a molecular neurobiology of neuroticism. Annual Meeting of the German Society for Psychology. University of Marburg, Germany, September 26-27, 2005.
Amygdala activation as a function of serotonergic gene variation: Case studies from the 5-HTT. HTR1A, and TPH2 polymorphisms. Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Germany, September 23, 2005.
Genomic imaging of personality. Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University, May 19, 2005.
Genomic imaging of personality. Genetics Program Retreat at the Stony Brook Sunwood Estate on Friday, January 21, 2005.
Brain mapping of personality. Department of Medicine. Brookhaven National Laboratories, November 18, 2004.
Brain mapping of personality. Minisymposium on Individual Differences in Brain-Behavior Relationships. 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, October 23-27.
Deconstructing neuroticism: gene-brain interactions during an emotional attention task. Invited Symposium chair, Annual Convention of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Fort Worth, Texas, October 16, 2004.
Imaging genomics of emotion. Leipzig Workshop on Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotional Communication, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany, September 4, 2004.
Gene-Brain Associations in Personality. Conference on the Biological Basis of Personality and Individual Differences, Stony Brook University, August 13, 2004.
Neuroethics of personality neuroscience. New York Academy of Sciences, New York, July 23, 2004.
Towards molecular mechanisms of extraversion and neuroticism. Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, June 24, 2004.
Brain mapping of extraversion and neuroticism: An individual differences approach. American Psychological Society, 16th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, May 28, 2004.
Mapping genetic influences on emotional brain reactivity. Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, New York University, April 2, 2004.
Genetic polymorphisms and the neural basis of affective cognition. Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, February 27, 2004.
Imaging genomics. Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Germany, January 19, 2004.
Emotional memory and personality. Conference on ‘Learning and the Brain’. Harvard University/MIT, Boston, MA, November 6, 2003.
Cognitive-affective brain processes: The role of personality traits. Workshop on Culture, Emotion and the Brain, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. June 23, 2003.
Brain mapping of personality. Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, February 12, 2003;
Brain mapping of personality. Department of Neurobiology, SUNY Stony Brook, February 20, 2003;
Brain mapping of personality. Swarthmore College February 21, 2003;
Brain mapping of personality. Department of Radiology, Yale University, April 10, 2003.
The integration of personality and affective-cognitive processing. Association for Research in Personality, Los Angeles, February 3rd, 2003.
Neural substrates of personality traits. International Symposium on Networks and Behavior, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. January 3-6, 2003.
Studies of the biological basis of personality: Integrating multiple brain mapping approaches. Series in Social and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Dec 13, 2002.
Studies of the biological basis of personality: Integrating multiple brain mapping approaches. Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Dec 12, 2002.
Functional brain imaging of personality: Traits as emerging properties. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England. July 3rd and 4th, 2001.
Brain and the law: Current work in neuroimaging. Conference on Evolutionary Biology, Economics and Law, organized by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. Squaw Valley, June 1, 2001.
Seeking signal in the noise: What individual differences can teach us about fundamental mechanisms of emotion. First International Conference on Social Cognitive Neuroscience. UCLA, April 26-28, 2001.
fMRI Studies in emotion: The role of individual differences in experience and personality. University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Personality and Social Research Fall 2000 Colloquium Series. November 15, 2000.
Neural correlates of emotion. Personality Seminar Series. Stanford University. April 15, 1999.
At the intersection of affect and personality: First imaging data. Medical Research Council, Applied Psychology. Cambridge, England. May 20, 1998.
Coverage of Research (selected items)
Textbooks
Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology (2003, 5th edition, p. 524). Bryan Kolb and Ian Q. Wilshaw. Worth Publishers, New York.
Psychology (3rd edition). Don Hockenbury and Sandra Hockenbury (Eds.). Worth Publishers/W.H. Freeman & Company.
Biological Psychology (2002, 3rd edition, Figure 15.12). Rosenzweig, Breedlove, and Leiman (Eds.).
Psychology: The brain, the person, the world (2nd edition). Stephen Michael Kosslyn and Robin
S. Rosenberg (Eds.). Book News, Portland, OR.
Psychological Science, web-based compendium to the textbook (2003). Michael S. Gazzaniga and Todd F. Hetherton. WW Norton, New York.
Print
APA Monitor. February 2001, pp. 66-68. Time Magazine, January 20, 2003.
Science, 306, 24 December 2004, p. 2164: “Editor’s Choice: Highlights from the recent literature”.
Science, 307, 11 March 2005, p. 1548: “Brain scans raise privacy concerns” (an article about neuroethics).
Press Services: Associated Press, United Press International, German and French Press Agencies.
Selected Newspapers: New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Philadelphia Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Sabah (Turkey), Hurriyet (Turkey), Apoteken Umschau (Germany)
Weekly Magazines: Newsweek (U.S. edition 2/21/2005; international edition 1/17/2005; Korean edition March 2005)
Radio
. Selected Radio Stations: National Public Radio, ABC News Radio with Sam Donaldson, Voice of America, VOA Turkey, BBC, Public Radio South Africa, local stations across the U.S., Canada, Ireland.
. NPR broadcast of “The Infinite Mind: Neuroethics”. Program broadcasted September 7th , 2003. Archived file available at www.theinfinitemind.com.
Television
. Television: newscasts on CNN, MSNBC, various local stations.
. Canadian Broadcasting Company. As part of a 5-part 5-hour series on “War of the Sexes”, my work was extensively featured in a one-hour program and was aired in February 2004 in French on Radio-Canada (the National French-Canadian TV station) and September 2005 on CBC in English.
. Swedish National Education Broadcasting Company. As part of a 4 part TV series on “Frontiers of the Brain”, my work was extensively featured in a program on “The Extroverted”. The program was shown in Sweden in the Spring of 2005 to an audience of several hundred thousand Swedish viewers and is now part of the education program in neuropsychology at the University of Uppsala.
Departmental Specialties and Dissertation Committee Service 2005 Eliza Congdon, Brian W. Haas 2004 Zenab Amin 2002 David J. Echevarria, Charles Metzing, Stewart Shankman 2001 Jennifer E. Graham, James P. Morris
Dissertation Committee Service 2009 Tsafir Greenberg, Genna Hymowitz, Jadzia Jagiellowicz 2008 Bianca Acevedo, Eliza Congdon, Xiaomeng (Mona) Xu 2007 Bryan Jones 2006 Bianca Acevedo, Eliza Congdon, Brian W. Haas, Bryan Jones, Sarah Ketay 2005 Zenab Amin, Stewart Shankman 2003-4 Wynne Schiffer (Neurobiology) 2003 David J. Echevarria, James P. Morris
Other Dissertation Committees
2009 Mary Kusenda (CSHL, Stony Brook Genetics Program)
2008 Mary Kusenda (CSHL, Stony Brook Genetics Program)
Other Departmental Committee Service Graduate Education Committee (2002-2007) Clinical Faculty Search (2004, 2009) Colloquium Committee (2002-2003) Biopsychology Faculty Search (2002) Reputation Committee (2001-02)
University Committee Service
Bioimaging Institute Executive Committee (2009-)
Imaging Project Executive Committee (2008)
Core Committee, Computational Neuroscience Center Chair Search (2007-2008)
General Advisory Council (GAC), General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) (Spring 2005-present)
University Senate, Graduate Council (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)
Simons Fellowship Committee (2002-2008)
Invited Presentations
From SNPs to epigenetic regulation of stress reactivity: new horizons. Dresden Spring School, Technische Universit.t Dresden, Germany, March 19, 2010.
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interaction in personality. St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, March 17, 2010.
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interaction in personality. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, December 10th, 2009.
How life leaves its fingerprints on the genome – The end of genetic determinism. Panel Discussant on “Nature and Nurture: Their Contributions to Behavior”, DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy on Nature and Nurture. Grand Rapids, MI, September 28, 2009.
The state of molecular psychology. Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 17, 2009.
Gene-Environment Interaction and the Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphism. Annual Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), Istanbul, Turkey, September 16, 2009.
The neural basis of gene-environment interactions. 36th International Congress of Physiological Science, Kyoto, Japan, July 27, 2009.
Towards epigenetic mechanisms in the human brain. Experimental Neuropsychology and Cognition Research Center (Centre de Recherche En Neuropsychologie expérimentale et Cognition-CERNEC), l'Université de Montréal, Canada, April 24, 2009
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interactions. Columbia University, New York, NY, April 15, 2009.
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interactions. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2, 2009.
Imaging Genetics of Neuroticism – A Role for Life Stress. Spring School: The ABC of Stress. University of Dresden, Germany, March 19, 2009.
Imaging Genetics of Neuroticism. 12th Annual Scientific Research Symposium sponsored by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Albuquerque, NM , March 13, 2009.
Neurogenetics of gene-environment interactions. Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia,
PA, February 25, 2009.
The Molecular Psychology of Human Emotionality. International Symposium on the Neuroscience of Emotion. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, February 9, 2009.
Serotonergic Regulation of Affect and Personality. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November 6, 2008.
Imaging Genomics. Workshop on Biology of Social Cognition, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), July 14-20, 2008.
Opportunities for advancing behavioral and social research on aging: An introduction for psychological scientists. Association for Psychological Science (APS) Pre-Conference Workshop, Chicago, IL, May 22, 2008.
Brain imaging of gene x environment interactions. Society for the Study of Motivation Meeting (Pre-conference associated with Association for Psychological Science), Chicago, IL, May 22, 2008.
Neurogenetics of neuroticism and depression vulnerability. American Psychosomatic Society (APS) 66th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 12-15, 2008.
Neuroimaging of gene-environment interactions in affective processing. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Monterotondo, Italy, March 5, 2008.
Neuroethics of transcranial magnetic stimulation. Present and future of TMS. Safety and Ethical Guidelines. Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, March 6-9, 2008.
A neural model of gene-environment interactions in affective processing. Chair: Genetic Contributions to Affect. Emotion Pre-Conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Albuquerque, NM, February 7, 2008.
Neurogenetics of Personality. Tamagawa-Caltech Joint Workshop “Neural Mechanisms of Social Mind”, Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan, December 7, 2007.
Gene-Environment Interactions: Neurogenetics of Personality. Department of Psychology, Yale University, November 29, 2007.
Neural mechanisms for gene-environment interactions and their implications. Roundtable Discussion on: Genes for mental phenomena -implications for society. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, November 7, 2007.
Closing Lecture: Vulnerability for psychopathology: current trends in genomic imaging. 43rd National Psychiatry Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, October 27, 2007.
Workshop: Designing a research study in genomic imaging. 43rd National Psychiatry Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, October 27, 2007.
Genes and Emotions. Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 25, 2007.
Current Issues in Genomic Imaging. Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, October 6-9, 2007.
Neurogenetics of Emotion and Personality. Graduate Kolleg Summer School of the University of Würzburg, Kloster Bronnbach, Germany, October 8, 2007.
Neuroethics – An Overview. Brazilian Congress of Bioethics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 27, 2007.
Genomic Psychology. Summer Institute in Social Neuroscience. University of California, Santa Barbara, June 26, 2007.
Genes and Affect. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course on “Molecular Mechanisms of Arousal and Attention”. Cold Spring Harbor, Banbury Center, June 23, 2007.
Neuroticism as a Risk Factor for Depression: A Neural Model of Gene-Environment Interaction. Symposium on: Cognitive, Neural, and Genetic Components of Mood-Related and Personality Pathology, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., May 27, 2007.
Neural Correlates of Epigenetics. Society for Biological Psychiatry. 62nd Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 17, 2007.
Smart Drugs go to War. The Neuroethics of Enhancement: how smart are smart drugs? Dana Foundation, Washington, D.C., May 14, 2007.
Genes, Brains, and Behavior: Genomic Psychology. F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 11, 2007.
Genes and Affective Processing. Advanced Study Initiative (ASI) on Integrating Imaging and Genetics in Cognitive Research, Royal Academy of Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 10, 2007.
Neural Correlates of Emotion and Personality: the role of gene-environment interactions,
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, January 16, 2007
Neural Correlates of Emotion and Personality: the role of gene-environment interactions,
Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University, January 11, 2007.
Chair and Panelist: Session on “The body/mind shop”. Seventh international joint conference on Science and Society: "Genes, Brain/Mind and Behaviour". Co-sponsored by The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Heidelberg, Germany, November 3-4, 2006.
Discussant: Neuroscience Applications in the U.S. Army. Workshop on Opportunities in Basic Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences for the U.S. Military. The National Academies, Washington, D.C., October 24, 2006.
Neuroscience Applications in Aviation Security. AVSEC (Aviation Security) World, Sydney, Australia, October 18, 2006.
The Serotonin Transporter Polymorphism -Neural Correlates of Action and Epigenesis,
Department of Psychology, Yale University, October 12, 2006.
Neurogenetics of Personality and Affect. Mahoney Institute of Neurological Science. University of Pennsylvania, October 3, 2006.
Organizer, Chair, and Panelist. Neuroscience and Neuroethics in the War on Terror. First International Workshop in Neuroethics and Homeland Security. Tufts University and The Boston Museum of Science, September 29, 2006.
The neurogenetic basis of personality. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Stony Brook University, June 23-27, 2006.
The biology of personality: Genetic Influences on the brain. Invited Lecture, Long Island Psychology Conference, Hofstra University, April 30, 2006.
Alumni Recognition Award Lecture: The Politics of Fear: What is there to fear? EPIIC Symposium on The Politics of Fear, Tufts University, February 23, 2006.
Neurogenetic mechanisms of affect processing in personality. Symposium on Individual Differences in Emotional Processing: Behavioral, Neural, and Genetic Mechanisms. Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, January 26-28, 2006.
Molecular-genetic mechanisms of emotional brain reactivity. The 3rd Takeda PharmaScience Foundation Symposium on Frontiers in Neuro-PharmaSciences: Molecular Pathogenesis and Drug Action. Tokyo, Japan, December 6, 2005; Center of Excellence, University of Tsukuba, Japan, December 9, 2005.
Neurogenetic Foundations of Personality. Princeton University, Seminar Series on “Social Decision-making”, November 29, 2005.
Homeland Security and Neuroscience: a neuroethics perspective. EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) Colloquium on Politics of Fear. Tufts University, October 18, 2005.
Opening Lecture: Genomic imaging of personality: Towards a molecular neurobiology of neuroticism. Annual Meeting of the German Society for Psychology. University of Marburg, Germany, September 26-27, 2005.
Amygdala activation as a function of serotonergic gene variation: Case studies from the 5-HTT. HTR1A, and TPH2 polymorphisms. Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Germany, September 23, 2005.
Genomic imaging of personality. Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University, May 19, 2005.
Genomic imaging of personality. Genetics Program Retreat at the Stony Brook Sunwood Estate on Friday, January 21, 2005.
Brain mapping of personality. Department of Medicine. Brookhaven National Laboratories, November 18, 2004.
Brain mapping of personality. Minisymposium on Individual Differences in Brain-Behavior Relationships. 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, October 23-27.
Deconstructing neuroticism: gene-brain interactions during an emotional attention task. Invited Symposium chair, Annual Convention of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Fort Worth, Texas, October 16, 2004.
Imaging genomics of emotion. Leipzig Workshop on Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotional Communication, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany, September 4, 2004.
Gene-Brain Associations in Personality. Conference on the Biological Basis of Personality and Individual Differences, Stony Brook University, August 13, 2004.
Neuroethics of personality neuroscience. New York Academy of Sciences, New York, July 23, 2004.
Towards molecular mechanisms of extraversion and neuroticism. Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, June 24, 2004.
Brain mapping of extraversion and neuroticism: An individual differences approach. American Psychological Society, 16th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, May 28, 2004.
Mapping genetic influences on emotional brain reactivity. Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, New York University, April 2, 2004.
Genetic polymorphisms and the neural basis of affective cognition. Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, February 27, 2004.
Imaging genomics. Department of Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Germany, January 19, 2004.
Emotional memory and personality. Conference on ‘Learning and the Brain’. Harvard University/MIT, Boston, MA, November 6, 2003.
Cognitive-affective brain processes: The role of personality traits. Workshop on Culture, Emotion and the Brain, Department of Psychology, Harvard University. June 23, 2003.
Brain mapping of personality. Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, February 12, 2003;
Brain mapping of personality. Department of Neurobiology, SUNY Stony Brook, February 20, 2003;
Brain mapping of personality. Swarthmore College February 21, 2003;
Brain mapping of personality. Department of Radiology, Yale University, April 10, 2003.
The integration of personality and affective-cognitive processing. Association for Research in Personality, Los Angeles, February 3rd, 2003.
Neural substrates of personality traits. International Symposium on Networks and Behavior, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. January 3-6, 2003.
Studies of the biological basis of personality: Integrating multiple brain mapping approaches. Series in Social and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Dec 13, 2002.
Studies of the biological basis of personality: Integrating multiple brain mapping approaches. Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Dec 12, 2002.
Functional brain imaging of personality: Traits as emerging properties. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England. July 3rd and 4th, 2001.
Brain and the law: Current work in neuroimaging. Conference on Evolutionary Biology, Economics and Law, organized by the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. Squaw Valley, June 1, 2001.
Seeking signal in the noise: What individual differences can teach us about fundamental mechanisms of emotion. First International Conference on Social Cognitive Neuroscience. UCLA, April 26-28, 2001.
fMRI Studies in emotion: The role of individual differences in experience and personality. University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Personality and Social Research Fall 2000 Colloquium Series. November 15, 2000.
Neural correlates of emotion. Personality Seminar Series. Stanford University. April 15, 1999.
At the intersection of affect and personality: First imaging data. Medical Research Council, Applied Psychology. Cambridge, England. May 20, 1998.
Coverage of Research (selected items)
Textbooks
Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology (2003, 5th edition, p. 524). Bryan Kolb and Ian Q. Wilshaw. Worth Publishers, New York.
Psychology (3rd edition). Don Hockenbury and Sandra Hockenbury (Eds.). Worth Publishers/W.H. Freeman & Company.
Biological Psychology (2002, 3rd edition, Figure 15.12). Rosenzweig, Breedlove, and Leiman (Eds.).
Psychology: The brain, the person, the world (2nd edition). Stephen Michael Kosslyn and Robin
S. Rosenberg (Eds.). Book News, Portland, OR.
Psychological Science, web-based compendium to the textbook (2003). Michael S. Gazzaniga and Todd F. Hetherton. WW Norton, New York.
APA Monitor. February 2001, pp. 66-68. Time Magazine, January 20, 2003.
Science, 306, 24 December 2004, p. 2164: “Editor’s Choice: Highlights from the recent literature”.
Science, 307, 11 March 2005, p. 1548: “Brain scans raise privacy concerns” (an article about neuroethics).
Press Services: Associated Press, United Press International, German and French Press Agencies.
Selected Newspapers: New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Philadelphia Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Sabah (Turkey), Hurriyet (Turkey), Apoteken Umschau (Germany)
Weekly Magazines: Newsweek (U.S. edition 2/21/2005; international edition 1/17/2005; Korean edition March 2005)
Radio
. Selected Radio Stations: National Public Radio, ABC News Radio with Sam Donaldson, Voice of America, VOA Turkey, BBC, Public Radio South Africa, local stations across the U.S., Canada, Ireland.
. NPR broadcast of “The Infinite Mind: Neuroethics”. Program broadcasted September 7th , 2003. Archived file available at www.theinfinitemind.com.
Television
. Television: newscasts on CNN, MSNBC, various local stations.
. Canadian Broadcasting Company. As part of a 5-part 5-hour series on “War of the Sexes”, my work was extensively featured in a one-hour program and was aired in February 2004 in French on Radio-Canada (the National French-Canadian TV station) and September 2005 on CBC in English.
. Swedish National Education Broadcasting Company. As part of a 4 part TV series on “Frontiers of the Brain”, my work was extensively featured in a program on “The Extroverted”. The program was shown in Sweden in the Spring of 2005 to an audience of several hundred thousand Swedish viewers and is now part of the education program in neuropsychology at the University of Uppsala.
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