Cultural and Affective Neuroscience Workshop

 

 

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

4-6:15 PM, SWIFT 231

 

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

 

 

Dr. Hideki Ohira

Professor

Nagoya University

 

 

Brain and body association in emotional decision-making

 

 

 

Workshop Presenters (5-6:15 pm):

 

 Neuroimaging studies of alexithymia: from the perspective of social neuroscience

Yoshiya Moriguchi, MD, PhD.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston College

 

Effects of exercise intervention on physiological and psychological responses in the elderly people in Japan

Tokiko Isowa, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Mie University

 

Cultural variation in amygdala response to emotional scenes

Joan Chiao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

 

 Association between responses of inflammatory cytokine and distress feeling in acute stress

Kaori Yamakawa

Graduate student, Nagoya University

 

Culture and mental illness stigma: Investigation of implicit and explicit attitudes

Bobby Cheon

Graduate Student, Northwestern University

 

 

 Sponsored by NIH Training Grant in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition