Neuroscience in the 21st Century

Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His laboratory has published more than 900 research papers and reviews. The author of several books on the brain and behavior, he received the 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing (medical science category) of the Association of American Publishers for his book, Brain Arousal and Information Theory. Nora D. Volkow, M.D., is the Director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health.  She is a pioneer in the application of modern brain scanning techniques to the mechanisms of the addictive disorders so problematic to medicine and public health.  Her approaches are not limited to reward processes in the basal forebrain, and also include consideration of behavioral regulation by the prefrontal cortex.John Rubenstein, MD, Phd, isa Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. He also serves as a Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry at the Nina Ireland Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology. His research focuses on the regulatory genes that orchestrate development of the forebrain.

• Alzheimer's Disease.- Anxiety Disorders.- Application of Genetic Techniques in Neural Tissue: Discovery.- Application of genetic techniques: Techniques for Manipulating Gene Expression.- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.- Attention Networks.- Axonal Guidance: Making Connections.- Axonal Transport.- Blood Brain Barrier.- Cable Modeling of Neurons and Modeling of Dendrites.- Cannabinoids Pharmacology, Abuse and Addiction.- Cell Types within CNS: Patterning.- Cerebellum.- Cerebral Microvessels.- Chemogenetics (DREADDs).- Cognitive Neuroscience: Hippocampus.- Cortical Processing of Visual Signals.- Declarative Associative Memory.- Default mode networks.- Diffuse Signaling (NO, CO Gases) in the CNS.