Symposium "Executive Functions and Frontal Lobes in Health and Disease"

This course will present the state-of-the art understanding of brain function and dysfunction.

By Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposia

Date and time

August 19 · 8:30am - August 23 · 12:30pm CST

Location

Tamarindo Diria Beach Resort, Calle Central, Guanacaste Province, Tamarindo, Costa Rica

Calle Central Tamarindo, Provincia de Guanacaste 50309 Costa Rica

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Agenda

Monday, August 19


General review of the neural basis of executive functions: frontal lobes and related structures: striatum, dopaminergic modulation, and others. Executive functions in evolution. Cortical and subcorti...

Tuesday, August 20


New ideas in the cognitive neuroscience of executive functions: networks not loci. The mechanisms of salience assignation. Decision making in novel and ambiguous environments – untapped territory in ...

Wednesday, August 21


The working memory conundrum: working memory in animals and humans. Working memory and salience assignation. Why most “working memory tests” are not. Intelligence and the frontal lobes: both coupled ...

Thursday, August 22


Executive dysfunction in neurodevelopmental syndromes: Are ADHD and dysexecutive syndrome the same? Is ADHD over-diagnosed at the expense of other disorders? The triple-decker: overcoming the fragmen...

Friday, August 23


Executive dysfunction in traumatic brain injury. When the “mild TBI” is not so mild. Reticulo-frontal disconnection syndrome. Executive dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders: schizophrenia and af...

About this event

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Please visit Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposia website to learn more about the symposium "Executive Functions and Dysfunction in Brain Health and Brain Disorders. Frontal Lobes, Distributed Networks, and the Whole Brain".

The speaker: Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN, is the Founding Director of Luria Neuroscience Institute and Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposia.

Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN, is a a clinical neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, and the Founding Director of Luria Neuroscience Institute and Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposia.

He is a diplomate of The American Board of Professional Psychology / American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology, with over 40 years of experience in neuropsychological diagnosis, cognitive rehabilitation, and forensic neuropsychology.

His critically acclaimed and bestselling books have been published in 24 languages.

Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., Founding Director of Brain-Mind Symposia, has a long-standing relationship with Latin America. More recently, he has collaborated with a team of Brazilian neuroscientists in the studies of a “modern-day Phineas Gage” (PDF).

Over the years, Goldberg has grown fond of Costa Rica with its beautiful beaches, lush rainforests, its many natural preserves and rich fauna, with several species of monkeys, parrots and iguanas. Unlike some other countries of the region, Costa Rica is a functioning democracy, stable, and peaceful country, so much so that it does not even have a standing army, something for the rest of the world to emulate!

Costa Rica sometimes referred to as the Switzerland of Central America. The people, known as “ticos” in Central America, are uniformly welcoming and friendly, and many speak some English.


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