From: Luria Neuroscience Institute To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacationggmail.coin> Subject: Workshops for Mental Health Professionals Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:17:41 +0000 ;12Frontal Lobes in Health and Disease Dear Jeffrey Epstein, The Luria Neuroscience Institute invites you to attend two day-long workshops. The programs are intended primarily for professionals concerned with mental health and with brain and brain disorders. Each workshop will take 9 hours and 9 CE Credits will be awarded for each. The fee for each workshop is $425. A combined fee for two workshops is $800. Dates: February 7, 2015 (Saturday) and February 21, 2015 (Saturday). Time: 8am - 6pm (with a lunch break and two short breaks). Location: Park Lane Hotel, 36 Central Park South, New York, NY 10019. Frontal Lobes in Health and Disease (February 7, 2015) 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. Executive functions, laterality, and sex differences. 5. Regulation of emotions: frontal lobes and amygdala. 6. Executive functions in development and aging. 7. Executive dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD, Tourette's Syndrome). 8. Executive dysfunction in dementias (Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, Fronto- temporal dementia). 9. Executive dysfunction in cerebrovascular disorders (CVA, aneurisms). 10. Executive dysfunction in traumatic brain injury (reticulo-frontal disconnection syndrome). 11. Executive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders. 12. Executive dysfunction in movement disorders (Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease). Read the full description and register today at Luria Neuroscience Institute. Laterality in Health and Disease (February 21, 2015) Topics to be covered: 1. Where the traditional notions of hemispheric specializati