Next week Dr Tony Simon from the UC
Davis MIND Institute is visiting Newcastle. I have asked Tony to give a talk
for the School on Tuesday the 19th of November at 11.30 in the Keats
Room. I know it is late notice and not on our usual colloquium day but I hope
that as many as possible can attend. Tony is an excellent speaker and does
research that will be of interest to many in the School.
Dr. Tony J. Simon is a paediatric cognitive
neuroscientist with a primary interest in clinical translational research.
His studies focus on the cognitive, affective and neural basis of learning
difficulties and psychopathologies that arise in genetic disorders. Dr. Simon’s
primary methodology is the use of hypothesis-driven experimental tasks
to characterize and measure cognitive and affective processing. His
group’s current focus is on attention and aspects of executive function, such
as cognitive control and working memory, as well as affective processing of
fear and threat. The focus specifically is on how these “cold” and “hot”
factors vary dynamically to impact cognitive processing and emotional
regulation. The clinical translational research program incorporates
standardized clinical measures of anxiety, adaptive functioning and
psychopathologic symptomology as well stress biology to further understand the
interaction of factors that contribute to each individual’s status as what Dr.
Simon and his team refer to as “copers” or “strugglers”. To assess the neural
basis of these factors the team acquires data on brain morphology, function and
connectivity using T1-weighted structural images, diffusion weighted images,
resting-state functional images and electrophysiological/event-related
potential data.
All welcome for more information please contact Linda Campbell
