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Congratulations to Dr. Kerry Hamsher for Distinguished Career Award from International Neuropsychological Society (INS)! Ceremony takes place tomorrow evening, during the first day of this year's Annual Meeting. #INS12

The Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) occurs this week. Here is the program overview: click here .

The 39th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society takes place in early February in Boston. Here is the conference website with basic information about the event: click here Highlights include the following keynotes, as well as a robust continuing-education program: Presidential Address: Stephen Rao, PhD Strategies for Preclinical Detection and Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease Herbert Birch Lecture: Valerie Reyna, PhD The Neurodevelopment of Memory and Decision Making: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach I am looking forward, as well, to Suzanne Corkin, PhD's Invited Lecture, Lasting Traces: How H.M. Shaped the Science of Memory

International Neuropsychological Society 38th Annual Meeting February 3-6, 2010 Acapulco, Mexico Conference webpage: here

I received the September 2009 issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society yesterday. If you (or your library) have access to it) it is chock-full of excellent articles, including an overview to the anterior temporal lobes and semantic memory, a paper about the Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test, several papers relevant to problems and deficits in executive functioning in different pathologies, and a look at the phenomenon of "closing-in" behavior in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Here is a webpage from the University of Florida ( click here ) that will be of interest to neuropsychologists, if only because it includes some cool photographs (as a profession, neuropsychology seems to be on the slim side when it comes to available photographs of persons and places). Enjoy graduate school and early-career pictures and stories of some fine neuropsychologists! And, as an added treat, some additional photographs ( click here ) of a fine neuropsychologist and his friends and colleagues, posted online by one of them.

INS 2009 MID-YEAR MEETING 29 July - 01 August 2009 Marina Congress Centre Helsinki, Finland & Hotel Viru, Tallinn, Estonia The 2009 Mid-Year meeting is organized by the International Neuropsychological Society and the Finnish Neuropsychological Society in collaboration with the Neuropsychological societies from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Estonia. The theme of the meeting is Bridging Research and Practice in Clinical Neuropsychology For up-to-date meeting information visit www.neuropsychology.fi/ins2009/

36th Annual International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Meeting February 6, 2008 to February 9, 2008 Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA Hilton Waikoloa Village Meeting webpage

From the INS website: "The 2007 Mid-Year meeting is a collaboration between [the International Neuropsychological Society] INS, the Federation of Spanish Neuropsychological Associations and the Spanish Psychiatry Society. The theme for this meeting is "Advances in Basic and Clinical Neuropsychology" . It promises to be a scientifically stimulating meeting, with over 500 abstracts being presented. The meeting will be held on July 4 -7, 2007 at the Palacio de Congresos y de la Musica Euskalduna." Additional information, including the program, can be found on the INS website: click here