12/10/2010

New Faculty Member Highlight: Professor Fernanda Ferreira

     
    Fernanda Ferreira is a College of Arts and Sciences, honorary professor of psychology and linguistics. He joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina in June 2010 after the chair of language and perception at the University of Edinburgh. (Faculty of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) in Edinburgh, held positions at the School of civilization and information to help organize interdisciplinary group of scientists led by Professor Scottish language university 1992-2006 and then as vice completely Ferreira, professor of psychology at 's Michigan State University, has also spent 1996-1997 working as Director of Linguistics Program of the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC, and was a visiting professor at Stanford University 1998-1999 Professor Ferreira. First degree - Class Honor in psychology at the University of Manitoba (awarded 1982), Master in Psychology (1985) and one in linguistics (1986) at the University of Massachusetts and a doctorate in cognitive psychology from UMass. (1988).Professor Ferreira's research focuses on language and understanding of the production and processing with special attention to grammar, prosody and disfluencies and communication has continued to study one of these with a combination of technical, behavioral and neuroimaging her. published over 70 articles and co-editor of three books. Their research was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK, the UK Leverhulme Trust, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health Prof. Ferreira has been supported Co - in the IGERT PI, the State of Michigan (Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training). University was assigned to study decision making in cognitive science.Career highlights include winning the 1996 American Psychological Association Award for outstanding scientific contribution to psychology, before the job. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the American Psychological Society, also Prof. Ferreira Editor - in - Chief of the Journal of the psychological experiment: general (this is one of the factors that affected the most psychological) and Deputy Editorial Page blog earlier Journal of memory and language, including Journal of Experimental Psychology: is learning, memory and perception Professor Ferreira on both NSF and the National Institutes of Health is the installation and monitoring in various magazines publishers.Prof. Ferreira has taught courses in psychology and linguistics. He has taught Introduction to Psychology of over 500 people, including small seminars that have taken up a PhD as an educator at various institutions around the world, including the University of Illlinois at Urbana - Champaign, Donders Institute in Netherlands, University of Northumbria, UK, University of Pittsburgh and the Valle Grande. Valley, Michigan State University.

12/09/2010

Identifying risk factors key to suicide prevention

     
Sometimes I intend to pursue advanced research on the fire to a graduate student in the department. For the post, I focused on the discovery of Dorian Lamis this version a bit 'more of this story on our site. A few weeks ago. - JH).The suicide has nearly tripled among adolescents since 1950 and reported about 12 percent of students who were suicidal at any time during the study. But getting professional help for students at risk of suicide is problematic: 80-85 percent of people who commit suicide substrates - for trying to commit suicide and completed suicide. dead - not seek contact with the consultants Dorian Lamis, a doctoral student in clinical projects in the study community psychology department, we think a more indirect way to assess the potential for suicidal students are on."Used many forms of assessment of doctors to determine that someone has to ask questions about suicide and students are often not accepted suicide" Dorian, Ph.D., said that four years from Atlanta, Georgia, that "my search Dr. Patrick Malone (Associate Professor in the Department), choose different risk factors are more easily identifiable, -.. depression symptoms, alcohol consumption and its temperament problems / aggression, lack of social support and life stress and if, together, show the potential for suicide or work life at risk than others.Lamis is the principal author of two papers recently published using data analysis of the relationship between risk factors and suicidal behavior measured. This paper is published in workers not properly collected on data from more than 700 women's college at the University of South Carolina fire indicated participation in violation of intimate partner psychological problems related to alcohol as predictors. Forces of suicide vulnerability of the work published in crisis, examining data from previous studies, direct investment in the body. (If some people feel like the body and take care of themselves) and depression by drinking alcohol, shaping the way for inclination to suicide."It 's important to educate the public about risk factors," said Lamis "associated with ninety percent of suicide with mental disorders and substance abuse;. 60 percent linked to depression, college students are at high risk mainly because in a new environment, are often under stress, financial and technical assistance, and they did not commit the social support to prevent the domination of the family as a factor. Suicide"Suicide is a complex phenomenon, and we hope that through our research .. for a better understanding of why people choose to get their lives to an end"In addition to research on data analysis of suicide Lamis is co-editor of understanding and preventing students from committing suicide. (Contract with Charles Thomas Publishers), which is the first book on the subject in 20 years, co-editor of God, David Lester of the Richard Stockton College, and the majority of participants in the role of experts. University students in various aspects of suicide.Lamis is also a member of the Board of Directors of the South Carolina chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a service area of training in August, the family and friends knew the survivors of suicide victims. Foundation on foot from the recognition of suicidal darkness in October to sponsor in the country.". I worked with researchers across the country to commit suicide and take part regularly and my work at the annual meeting of the American Society of Suicidology" Lamis said: "I hope, has published 15 articles and books have done, when I studied .. "Lamis plans for academic teaching and research, by the end of his doctorate in 2013.

12/08/2010

Welcome new graduate students!

    
I am happy and honored to welcome our new students of the psychology department last week. I am willing to pay a portion of a long day of orientation Marti Brown, program coordinator of our graduates and the heads of three graduates of our program will be organized: Dr. Bradley Smith for the clinic. / Community Psychology, Dr. Jennifer Vendemia of Experimental Psychology, and Dr. Scott Huebner for school psychology. Events include information about the enthusiastic welcome for lunch and pizza for academic and practical help to meet everyone.It is the students who are new Department has just arrived this summer. I want to know more about how the department and the university of my city, including Columbia and adjacent areas of South Carolina, I hope we can all be the way we learn from each other. I mean, the character of this course is to explore all that. (ผมเคยค้นพบแล้วความสวยงามของชายหาดในบริเวณใกล้เคียง!): "Can I have the opportunity to ask students to travel the only building on campus, do not ask me I say this in a figurative sense, like. We are partners in pursuit of academic and intellectual interests of our research.Students play an important role in traditional university teaching, research and service. Forum to teach students served as an assistant for the course of our first line of contact with students outside the classroom and act as mentors for students in close contact with this age. We know that. Some are preparing students to teach during their many years of doctoral programs and for application materials. In terms of research, students, partners and employees began working closely with consultants to research and to move towards independence, as it is designed and completed the study. Masterpieces of them. Students receive a tremendous amount of weight in university research and the fact there is no energy and commitment to their research, the university is not possible. Finally, if the student is at the interface of people in clinical / community and our school psychology degree programs. To focus on counseling students to community members of the department of clinical psychology services.New students deserve our congratulations a lot. University is a meritocracy, and the pursuit of the students leave as the top among their peers. If you have put in many hours of hard work as a student, she excelled in their studies. Inspired. Push and intelligent. It 's a pleasure to be around them, and they deserve a pat on the back of this
Welcome to the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina!

Endowed Chair in Neuroimaging Research

 
University of South Carolina inquiries, nominations and applications for the excellent academic invited to attend the South Carolina Economic Research Excellence (COEE) in the brain images as part of a National Brain Imaging Center of Excellence. This position will use the opportunities, resources, basic research and clinical development of USC in the research, development of interdisciplinary imaging of human brain in the center McCausland Brain Imaging Center for Excellence in Economic Sciences in Health Sciences South Carolina together. , The high-resolution images for projects in the clinical neuroscience of emotion and thought. With the new Siemens Magnetom Trio Total Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems, McCausland Brain Imaging Center Collaboratives include professors and researchers from the School of Arts and Science Health and Medicine at the University of South Carolina and the entire state.Candidates should be advanced in which a professor or a teacher with a background in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, neurology is an idea, or neuroimaging, clinical, and have extensive experience with the function of brain imaging, to answer questions knowledge base of the brain and behavior. History of funding and experience leading a large team of research and has proved decisive. Choose addition to the work of the research team to the winner, will participate in the work of the Scientific Advisory Committee and the secondary school of thought and behavior.University of South Carolina, was founded in 1801 as a third of people in search of the University of South Carolina and includes eight universities, has received the support of the certification system with about 40,000 students, USC and solid curriculum. Graduate and professional schools, including art and science of medicine, technology, economics, law, education, social work, pharmacy, public health communication and information, education and care.Information and applications will be sent via e-mail to Professor John M. Henderson (sc.edu john.henderson @) are sent electronically submit applications. john.henderson sc.edu @ o John M. Henderson, Department of Neuroimaging Research, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208thUniversity of South Carolina can be done to confirm the employer the opportunity. Minorities and women are supported, especially qualified for the University of South Carolina is no discrimination in employment or training opportunities or decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national. Origin, age, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status.

12/07/2010

Family Fund

   
This year's fundraiser for a family of University of South Carolina currently is now, you will receive an information package in the mail on your post-if not, you can visit this link for more information on the USC Family Fund.
Family Fund is a great way for current and former members of the USC family something new to the Institute of Psychology.
The selection of gifts, including gifts and individual applicants.
As I explained in a blog post earlier Institute of Psychology reduced many to take the budget for the operation in 2010, limits our ability to support our students with the resources they need and will provide an opportunity to remedy this lack the amount of the donation the address is to increase the fund family.
Donation forms are available online and you can be sure that your support of the Department of Psychology is intended to form, indicating your preference.
Among those who in the past and those who believe to be the first time on behalf of agencies and universities, please note that we are grateful for your interest and your support. We look forward to hearing from you.

12/06/2010

Mind and Brain

   
  Nobel Laureate Dr. Eric Kandel was that "knowledge Neuroscience expected - with their concerns about the perceived acts of memory and attention to the language selection - is coming to focus on neuroscience All the 21 st century ..." In line with this guideline Psychology Department Colloquium Series for the 2010-2011 academic year began on the relationship between mind and brain.
This semester we have some excellent, discussed in heart and brain, and others are on site in September, Dr Rhodri Cusack from the Medical Research Council of Perception and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, England. Speaking of eye and brain imaging to speak of the heart (and ears) by the Medical Research Council Dr. Lorina interesting addition to the mental processes in patients with Naci plant states. In the month of October, "said Professor Christopher Rorden Center for Advanced Brain Imaging at the Georgia Tech progress in understanding the neural describing the neuroscience ideas of basic research and applied for the understanding of cognitive deficits. Balance after stroke . Also in October, said Dr. Ellen Lau Hospital and Tufts University in Massachusetts predict the language, she describes how the various imaging techniques are combined to cope with difficult theoretical questions. in connection with the human brain,
that are supported. And all this traffic stimulation occurs in a few months of the year.
We look forward to conversations that take Dr. Ted Gibson and Dr. Evelina Federenko both from MIT, is to study about the use of imaging techniques and calculation methods for the problem of cognition and language. And the more speakers to work. All in all it was a very exciting time for cognitive neuroscience at USC!

Research Highlight: Professor Rose Booze researches plant compound as Parkinson’s cure


   
Neuroscientist. The Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina in search of compounds in licorice root, which prevent or delay cell death found associated with the disease. neurodegenerative disorders. Such as arthritis and Parkinson's.

Dr. Rose Marie Cooper, age 200 years, chair professor in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience are extracted in psychology. liquiritigenin - LQ as alcohol, or call - the nerves and the evidence of it.
LQ is a phytoestrogens, naturally occurring substances in plants that mimic the hormone estrogen. Phytoestrogens. Linked to one of two types of estrogen receptor (ER) - alpha and beta - in human cells in the body that alpha ERS targets throughout the body, shows that quality can be found to prevent certain cancers, including breast and 'uterus, ovarian LQ beta ERS which was found in target cells in the brain."Plants are chemists amazing!". Dr. said that alcohol is phytoestrogens. Only be produced in plants and have many different people as a target for estrogen. We focus on compounds for the beta nerve, and these can be found in licorice root, soy and other plants .

The research of Dr. drinking water has received $ 1,800,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Alfa and beta estrogen receptor is close to the structure of the estrogen receptor beta but more localized in the brain and affects various brain cells, we know that the LQ is a substance used in traditional Chinese medicine used to treat women in menopause . postmenopausal. We expect to determine the impact of the brain. "

To create a synthetic substance that is naturally in plants, it is difficult to do this in the laboratory.

"They are compounds that have potential as a natural system.

degeneration disease, Parkinson's disease and dementia with HIV infection occur. neurodegenerative disorders. Because the loss of neurons or brain cells over time.

"We test the ability of plants to aid in phytoestrogens such as genistein and LQ, on nerve cells in the disease. Neurodegenerative. Survival and treatment of nerve cells connect and use, and," he said. "We want to keep the brain plastic .."
The research, Dr. Buster is the first time in the LQ and the first made by a couple of tests phytoestrogens. These brain and his research team tested the ability of these compounds USC helps nerve cells survive and help new compounds in the laboratory of food Petri them to see if the compound is important. the survival of neurons and methods. Phytoestrogens. This is different from the hormone estrogen, which in fact occur.

"It can cross LQ good absorption in the intestine and the blood-brain barrier very well be a novel LQ in Western culture. 'Was also used in the East for a long time." Mor explains drinking
Working with Research in LQ drink with colleagues at the Institute of Psychology. Neuroscientist, Dr. Charles Mactutus, Dr. Michael Aksenova, Dr. June Zhu, Ph.D. Current country Hing Moran, Lauren Hord and Sarah Bertrand and students, including several T. Espensen - LQ Sturges test as part of their view of Psychology

Dr. Cooper has conducted research on the relationship between brain chemicals and more than 20 years at the time of their research was funded by the National Institutes of Health continues to $ 17,000,000 to date, if the recent National Institutes of Health funding of 2015 to expand them.

LQ doctors do not attack first drink in the search. phytoestrogens. She worked similar to the isolation of estrogen in the ER alpha substances found in soy soy have been shown to prevent cancer, female contain soy is used in cosmetics, as well as bread, cereals and legumes.

"Instead of your face, we are looking for a place in the brain LQ.

For research. LQ phytoestrogens, including you, Dr. Cooper has worked with Kentucky - based Naprogenix that the separation of substances which have been estrogen in soy plants such as reeds and banana NIH hopes to specialize allowed. to help the poorest nations, the University of phytoestrogens with the test substance Naprogenix that the company insulated from each other.

Dr. Cooper has personal ties to research."I hope that substances such as LQ, etc. These compounds estrogen receptor beta a new target to prevent neurodegeneration and slow. Lethality in these diseases. My father has a severe ridge, so I figured what the family and the urgent need for any treatment of nervous and has worked with phytoestrogens. "This new era of research. Neuroscientist. ".