Webinars

Webinar: Executive Functions and the Frontal Lobes

Date: October 26, 2016 (Wednesday).
Time: 1pm - 4pm EST (12pm - 3pm Central Time / 10am - 1pm Pacific Time).
Topics to be covered:

1. Executive functions and frontal-lobe functions: are they the same?
2. Components of executive functions (planning, impulse control, working memory, and others).
3. Novel approaches to understanding the frontal-lobe functions.
4. Frontal lobes and large-scale networks (Central Executive, Default Mode, and others).
5. Executive functions and laterality.
6. Executive functions and sex differences.
7. Regulation of emotions: frontal lobes and amygdala.
8. Executive functions and intelligence.
9. Executive functions in development and aging.

Webinar: Executive Dysfunction in Brain Disorders

Date: November 2, 2016 (Wednesday).
Time: 1pm - 4pm EST (12pm - 3pm Central Time / 10am - 1pm Pacific Time).
Topics to be covered:

1. Executive dysfunction in dementias (Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia, Fronto-temporal dementia).
2. Executive dysfunction in traumatic brain injury (reticulo-frontal disconnection syndrome).
3. Executive dysfunction in cerebrovascular disorders (CVA, aneurisms).
4. Executive dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome).
5. Executive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, affective disorders).
6. Executive dysfunction in movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease).
7. Executive dysfunction in infectious encephalopathies.
8. Executive dysfunction and seizure disorders.
9. Executive dysfunction and laterality.

Webinar: Creativity and Cognition

Date: November 23, 2016 (Wednesday).
Time: 1pm - 4pm EST (12pm - 3pm Central Time / 10am - 1pm Pacific Time).
Topics to be covered:

1. Creativity and society.
2. Creativity deconstructed.
3. Creativity, innovation, and salience.
4. Creativity and intelligence.
5. Creativity and psychopathology.
6. Enhancing creativity?
7. Evolutionary roots of creativity.

Webinar: Creativity and the Brain

Date: November 30, 2016 (Wednesday).
Time: 1pm - 4pm EST (12pm - 3pm Central Time / 10am - 1pm Pacific Time).
Topics to be covered:

1. Facts and fads of creativity.
2. Creativity, novelty, and the right hemisphere.
3. Salience, decision making, and the frontal lobes.
4. “Standing on the shoulders of giants” and the left hemisphere.
5. Perspiration and inspiration: hyperfrontality and hypofrontality.
6. Creativity and the genes.
7. Group creativity.