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I teach the first run tomorrow of my new 6-hr continuing-education program about Memory. Looking forward to it!

I begin work this week drafting the structure of a multi-hour continuing-education (CE) program that I will be teaching several months from now on the topic of memory functioning for clinicians and clinical researchers. I will be presenting an overview to current clinical and research findings about normal memory, memory problems in certain clinical conditions, the neurodegenerative diseases, and an overview to efforts to assess the effectiveness of trying to enhance memory and trying to prevent or slow memory decline. If you were to attend a program like this, what would you like to hear about?

Here is the conference homepage to the National Academy of Neuropsychology's (NAN) annual conference, taking place this week in Florida: Conference Homepage

Here is the website, chock full of information, for the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting, Neuroscience 2011: Neuroscience 2011

List of official neurobloggers The conference begins on the 12th of November.

ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE 2011 Annual Symposium: Open Questions in Neuroscience October 4-5, 2011 Seattle, WA "The second annual symposium, Open Questions in Neuroscience , offers a thought-provoking program that addresses key areas of neuroscience and looks to the future of the field. Bringing together a diverse group of leading scientists, the meeting will feature a mixture of talks and discussion to inspire innovative thinking and engage participants in exploring compelling avenues for advancing brain research." - from the webpage Visit the conference webpage

The 9th Annual Mild Cognitive Impairment Symposium will take place in late April in Miami Beach, Florida. The theme of the meeting is "New Criteria for Prodromal and Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease" The website for the conference can be found at: mcisymposium.org . The Twitter voice of the conference is @mcisymposium

The Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society (BPS) takes place in early May in Glasgow. The conference website can be found at: bps.org.uk/ac2011/ . The conference's Twitter voice is: @BPSConference According to the website, the conference's themes this year are: Development, Learning and Education Psychology, the Law and Justice Psychologists and Neuroscience

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

The ICAD Alzheimer's Disease conference begins tomorrow, the 10th, in Honolulu. Details about the conference can be found at http://www.alz.org/icad/ Tweeters there will be using the hashtag #ICAD.

The annual conference of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) takes place from the 10th to the17th of April 2010, in Toronto. Conference homepage

Early next year: Third Annual Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials conference, to be held 08th-09th March, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. From the conference webpage: "Patient recruitment and retention are critical to drug development programs. Patient recruitment if not adequately planned for can extend your development timeline by a number of years. Retention of patients throughout the life of a clinical trial is essential in order have complete data sets for your analysis and subsequent filings. In order to optimize both you have to have a plan. This conference is intended to cover the topics one should consider when drafting and strategically implementing a patient recruitment and retention plan for a clinical development program." Please see conference webpage for details.

Llambí L, Margolis A, Toews J, Dapueto J, Esteves E, Martínez E, Forster T, López A, & Lockyer J. Distance education for physicians: Adaptation of a Canadian experience to Uruguay. Journal of Continuing Education for Health Professionals. 2008 Spring; 28(2): 79-85. EviMed, Montevideo, Uruguay. INTRODUCTION: The production of online high-quality continuing professional development is a complex process that demands familiarity with effective program and content design. Collaboration and sharing across nations would appear to be a reasonable way to improve quality, increase access, and reduce costs. METHODS: In this case report, the process of adapting and modifying a course to improve the management of Alzheimer's disease developed for the Canadian context for use in Uruguay is described. RESULTS: Both quantitative and qualitative data on the process are shown. The original course was developed by the University of Calgary in the 1990s, and taught initially face to face and la...