The Charles E. Smith Memorial Lectures:



2007: Erik C. Wolters, Ph.D

"Parkinson's disease revisited"

2006:  Harold A. Sackeim, PhD

"Focal brain stimulation in neurology and psychiatry; a new class of therapeutics"

2005:  Edward A. Kravitz, PhD

"Genetic probing of the neural basis of aggression"


2004:  David J. Brooks, M.D.

"Imaging the role of dopamine: from synapse to executive motor control in health and Parkinson's disease"


2003:  Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D.

"Genetic Mechanisms of Psychopathology"


2002:  Richard G.M. Morris, Phd., F.R.S.

"What does the hippocampus do and how does it do it?"


2000:  Andrew Lees,

"Hedonic Homeostatic Dysregulation and the Dopaminergic Brain".


1999:  Robert H. Edwards,

" The Ins and Outs of Synaptic Vesicles"


1998:  C.Robert Cloninger,

"The Psychobiology and Genetics of Human Personality".


1997:  Bert Sakmann (Nobel Prize Laureate for Physiology-1991),

"Grey Matters"


1996:  Claude de Montigny,

"The 5-HT Neuron and the Treatment of Depression: A Creative Interplay Between Fundamental and Clinical Research".


1995:  Michael M. Merzenich,

"Cortical Plasticity Underlying Learning: Physiological Bases, Theoretical Principles and Some Pragmatic Implications".