BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Neuroscience Center will host the first Bevill Symposium in Neuroscience Tuesday, Oct. 6.
The symposium, which will be an annual event, is made possible by a gift from the Bevill Family Foundation, named for the late Tom Bevill, a longtime member of Congress from the 4th District of Alabama. The symposium, bringing top national and UAB researchers together, will focus on neuroimaging, a field that has been called the next frontier in neuroscience.
"UAB scientists are at the forefront in the field of neuroimaging, which has great promise to advance discoveries in neurology and neuroscience," said David Standaert, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center. "We are indebted to the Bevill Family Foundation for their support, which will allow us to make this important scientific symposium an annual event."
Featured speakers include Karen Berman, M.D., from the National Institute for Mental Health; Diana Rosas, M.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital; and Arthur Toga, Ph.D., from the University of California, Los Angles.
The symposium runs from 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Bradley Conference Center in Children's Harbor, 1600 6th Avenue South on Oct. 6.
Additional speakers from UAB include Paul Gamlin, Ph.D., professor and chair of vision sciences; Rajesh Kana, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology; Adrienne Lahti, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurobiology; Burt Nabors, M.D., professor of neurology; Ryan Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of neurology; and Kristina Visscher, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurobiology.
About the UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
The UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center serves as the focal point for UAB basic and applied neuroscience research, supporting interdisciplinary research, clinical care and education. Despite significant advances over the last 15 years in understanding many basic neurological processes, development of more effective treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases have been identified as the largest and fastest growing unmet medical need in this country.