About the Lectures

When: Saturdays, from 27 January to 24 February, 2006, from 11:00 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m.

Where: The first four lectures are in 100 Thomas Building. The last lecture is in 112 Kern Building.

Saturday Science Lectures to Examine the Science of "Broken Brains"

16 January 2007— "Broken Brains: New Research on Brain Disease Is Revealing How the Healthy Mind Works" is the theme of the 2007 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science, a series of free public lectures that will begin on Saturday, 27 January. Designed as a free minicourse for the enjoyment and education of residents in Central Pennsylvania communities, the lectures take place on five consecutive Saturday mornings from 11:00 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. on the Penn State University Park campus.

This free minicourse consists of five consecutive lectures focusing on recent research on the structure and function of the human brain. Audience members who attend the consecutive lectures will gain an understanding of how the study of brain disease is helping researchers to make new discoveries about normal brain function. The lectures will include:

• "Metals in Your Brain: How to Stop Your Brain From Rusing its Way to Alzheimer's Disease" by Jim Connor, professor and vice-chair of the Department of Neurosurgery in the Penn State College of Medicine, on 27 January in 100 Thomas Building;
• "Addiction: A Bad Case of Good Memory" by Kyung-An Han, associate professor of biology at Penn State, on 3 February in 100 Thomas Building;;
• "Serotonin and the Misbehaving Brain: Unraveling the Biology of Anxiety and Depression" by Anne Andrews, assistant professor of molecular toxicology at Penn State, on 10 February in 100 Thomas Building;
• "Schizophrenia: The Broken Brain and How to Fix It" by Robert Levenson, professor of pharmacology in the Penn State College of Medicine, on 17 Febrary in 100 Thomas Building; and
• "Brain Repair: Hopes and Challenges" by Gong Chen, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, on 24 February in 112 Kern Building.

The Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science are sponsored by the Penn State Eberly College of Science, with additional financial support provided by Pfizer Inc.

Thomas Building is located at the intersection of Pollock and Shortlidge Roads on the Penn State University Park Campus. Free parking is available in the Eisenhower Parking Deck behind Eisenhower Auditorium. Kern Graduate Building is located at the corner of Curtin and Burroughs Roads. Parking is available free of charge at the Nittany Parking Deck adjacent to the Nittany Lion Inn on Fischer Road.

For more information or access assistance, contact the Eberly College of Science Office of Public Information by telephone at (814) 863-0901, by e-mail at science@psu.edu, or click on the web link at http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/frontiers/

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