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Brainy times come to the American Museum of Natural History in NYC, opening today: Brain: The Inside Story http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/brain/about.php

From the BBC Radio 4 show, "Case Study": HM - The Man Who Couldn't Remember Broadcast on 11 August 2010. Listen to the programme

From FierceBiotech , an interesting report: Full article: Top 10 Phase III Failures of 2010

From an NIH press release: NIMH's Dr. Mortimer Mishkin to be awarded National Medal of Science 12 November 2010 National Institutes of Health intramural researcher Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D., will be awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony later this month. Mishkin is chief of the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) Section on Cognitive Neuroscience, and acting chief of its Laboratory of Neuropsychology. He is the first NIMH intramural scientist to receive the medal, which the President presents each year for outstanding contributions to science. Mishkin is among 10 recipients this year. "I'm hugely honored. I also feel very happy because it reflects on the support I’ve received from NIH/NIMH all these years," said Mishkin, who has worked at the NIMH Intramural Research Program on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. since 1955. In a series of meticulous studies spanning more than five decades, Mishkin and colleagues discovered much about how ...

Here is a link to a set of listed neuroblogs for the conference. Each blog can be accessed from this page. SfN Neuroblogs

The SfN annual meeting begins tomorrow. You can access the website at: http://www.sfn.org/am2010/ . The tweet hashtag is #SfN10. See the right-hand column for a feed of this hashtag.

A very readable piece from Gina Kolata of the New York Times: Doubt on Tactic in Alzheimer’s Battle By GINA KOLATA The New York Times Published: August 18, 2010 "The failure of a promising Alzheimer’s drug highlights the gap between diagnosis and treatment." Read the full article

Audio available from The BBC : Listen From the show's webpage: "Neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore was a war baby brought up in devastated Coventry. His two-up two-down home had the first TV in the street on which he lived next door to relatives and a family of ten. As an only child, his parents were able to cash in an insurance policy of £16 which enabled him to go to the local grammar school where he proved himself to be more of an artist and actor than a scientist. Producer: Smita Patel."

From FierceBiotech FDA panel backs new epilepsy drug from GSK, Valeant August 12, 2010 — 7:41am ET By John Carroll "GlaxoSmithKline and Valeant got a solid endorsement for their new epilepsy drug Potiga (ezogabine) from the FDA's panel of experts, putting them on track to a likely approval. The experts unanimously agreed that the drug would benefit epilepsy patients whose meds couldn't stop seizures. And they agreed that careful monitoring would flag patients who experience an inability to urinate while taking the drug." Read the full article

From The New York Times Patricia Neal, an Oscar Winner Who Endured Tragedy, Dies at 84 By ALJEAN HARMETZ Published: August 9, 2010 Patricia Neal

Available for viewing and downloading from the NIH: It Takes Tau to Tangle : Plaques, Tangles and Neurodegenerative Disease by Karen Duff 23 June 2010 link

From UCLA: Obituary: Paul Satz Obituary: Paul Satz, 77, psychiatry professor, founder of UCLA neuropsychology program By Mark Wheeler June 25, 2010 UCLA Paul Satz, a UCLA professor emeritus of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and the founder of the neuropsychology program at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, died June 20, in Lihue, Hawaii, after a long battle with cancer. He was 77. One of the founders of the discipline of neuropsychology, Satz was widely recognized for his groundbreaking research on brain–behavior relations. During his tenure at UCLA (1981–2002), he established the UCLA Neuropsychology Program and helped turn it into one of the world's largest and most successful training programs for clinical neuropsychologists. The author of more than 300 publications, Satz's scientific contributions to the understanding of normal and abnormal brain development had — and continue to have — a major imp...

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.

Coming to The See Further Fest (Celebrating 350 years of The Royal Society): "A Perfect MInd" .

The British Psychological Society Research Digest blog has been very generous in interviewing BrainBlog for its current series of peeks into the lives of psychologists and neuroscientists who write blogs. Read the article Thank you!

Part one (of five) from today's New York Times : The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) By ERROL MORRIS June 20, 2010, 9:00 PM Read the article

NCDEU is an annual conference that presents advances in treatment and in clinical trials for a number of psychiatric conditions. It is a relatively small conference with a nicely organized agenda of workshopa, presentations, and poster sessions. The website for the conference can be found here , which includes the program.

Off to the NCDEU conference in Florida. More from there!

From The New York Times : Fred Plum, Neurologist Who Helped Coin ‘Persistent Vegetative State,’ Dies at 86 By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN Published: June 11, 2010 Read the full article

Military Still Failing To Diagnose, Treat Brain Injuries by T. CHRISTIAN MILLER and DANIEL ZWERDLING. Includes a link to the NPR All Things Considered presentation.