[BIC-announce] FW: Killam lecture TODAY - Corticocentric Myopia: Social Darwinism and Victorian bias in Modern Neurosciences

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

**REMINDER**

 

Killam Lecture

 

Speaker:  Josef Parvizi, PhD

Laboratory of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology

Stanford University

 

Title:  Corticocentric Myopia:  Social Darwinism and Victorian Bias in Modern Neurosciences

 

Date:  TODAY

 

Time:  4:00 pm

 

Place:  de Grandpre Communications Centre

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 Dear Colleagues:

            Josef Parvizi will be the speaker in the Killam lecture series TODAY at 4 o'clock in the De Grand Pre Communication center.  The title of his talk is "Corticocentric Myopia: Social Darwinism and Victorian Bias in Modern Neurosciences".  

Abstract of the talk:

Traditionally, the cerebral cortex is seen to have the most important role in 'higher' functions of the brain, such as cognition and behavioral regulation, whereas subcortical structures are considered to have subservient or no roles in these functions. This talk will cover the historical basis for this conceptual bias, and will emphasize its negative implications in current practices in the cognitive and clinical neurosciences. 

 

Josef Parvizi graduated from the University of Oslo with MD Cum Laude and earned his PhD in neurosciences from the University of Iowa. His PhD thesis received the Spriestersbach Award for the best PhD dissertation in Biological Sciences at The University of Iowa in 1999.  During his post-doctoral years, he embarked on a series of neuroanatomical tracing studies in nonhuman primates and mapped the connectivity of the posteromedial cortex and the temporal pole with cortical and subcortical structures.  He completed his medical internship at Mayo Clinic Rochester, and Neurology Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard Medical School before joining the Epilepsy group at UCLA for fellowship training in Clinical Epilepsy and Neurophysiology.  He has been an assistant professor and practicing neurologist at Stanford University since July 2007.

 

M. Jones-Gotman, Ph.D.

Professor

McGill University

Montreal Neurological Institute

Telephone: (514) 398-8907

Secretary:  Annie Le Bire (514) 398-2579

e-mail: marilyn.jonesgotman at mcgill.ca

http://apps.mni.mcgill.ca/research/jonesgotman/