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Nominations for the committee John
Patrick Aggleton has
been Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the School of Psychology,
Cardiff University, Wales since 1994. He obtained a D.Phil. degree in
1980 at the University of Oxford working under the supervision of Dr
Richard E. Passingham. Successively, he has been visiting fellow at the
Laboratory of Neuropsychology of the National Institute of Mental Health
in Bethesda under the directorship of Dr M. Mishkin, and then
lecturer/senior lecturer at the University of Durham UK. During his
career, he has focused on the neurobiology of emotion, memory and mental
dysfunction with a specific attention devoted to the role of the
amygdala and related temporal lobe and diencephalic areas in distinct
forms of memory (recognition, episodic, working memory). This research has been conducted in various animal species as
well as in humans. As head
of a productive research group, he has used a variety of approaches
including selective brain lesions, pharmacological manipulations, and
gene expression imaging. His
is the author of numerous scientific publications (articles, book
chapters and books), and currently a member of the editorial board of
the following journals (European Journal of Neuroscience, Behavioral
Neuroscience, Neuropsychologia, Brain Research Bulletin, and
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews). He has been a member of the
EBBS since 1990. Verity
J. Brown
is Reader and Head of the School of Psychology at the University of St.
Andrews. She gained her Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1990, under the
supervision of Professor Trevor W. Robbins. She was awarded a
MacDonald-Pew Post-doctoral fellowship to go the NIH Laboratory of
Sensorimotor Research. In 1991, she joined the laboratory of
Neurospsychology at NIMH, working with Dr Robert Desimone, before moving
to St. Andrews in 1993. VB is leading an active research group concerned
with brain mechanisms of response control and attention. She is
currently applying a range of techniques including neurophysiology,
psychopharmacology and analysis of both operant and unconditioned
behaviour in animals and humans (healthy volunteers and patient
populations). She has been a member of the European Brain and Behaviour
Society since 1986. After
obtaining his medical degree in Florence (Italy) in 1984, Leonardo
Chelazzi began
his scientific career at the Institute of Physiology, University of
Verona, Italy under the supervision of Prof G. Berlucchi and Prof. C.A.
Marzi. In 1986, he then moved to the Department of Anatomy and
Physiology of the University of Turin (Italy) where in 1988 he completed
a PhD program in Neuroscience under the supervision of Prof P. Strata.
After returning to Verona for a short period of time, he joined the
Laboratory of Neuropsychology at NIMH.NIH (Bethesda, USA) chaired by Dr
Mishkin, where he spent a
four-year period of postdoctoral training working in the group of R.
Desimone. In 1994, he returned to Verona where he became assistant
professor of Psychology in the Department of Neurological and Vision
Sciences. Since last year he has been associate Professor of
Neurophysiology at the same Department. Throughout his scientific
career, his research interests have covered the cognitive neuroscience
of visual perception, visual selective attention and memory. Along the
years he has taken a number of approaches to investigate this topics
including behavioural experiments in humans and recording of single
neurones from the brain of awake, behaving macaques. His main
contribution concerns the functional interplay between memory and
attention mechanisms in the primate brain. Leonardo Chelazzi is member
of a number of scientific
societies, including European Brain and Behaviour Society and the
Society for Neuroscience. He served regularly as ad-hoc referee for
several journals including Science, Neuropsychologia and Experimental
Brain Research. He leads an active and independent research group in
Verona. In addition to receiving financial support from the Italian
Government, the italian National Research Council, and the University of
Verona, he has been awarded grants from the Human Frontier Science
Program (HFSP), and the McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience program. He
maintains stable collaborations with a number of colleagues in Europe
and North America. In 1999, he received the Novartis Neuroscience award
for italian young investigator. Georg
Goldenberg
was
born 1949 in Vienna. He studied medicine and was trained as a
neurologist in Vienna with stages in Paris (1983, with Francois
Lhermitte and Jean Louis Signoret) and Aachen (1985, with Klaus Poeck).
Habilitation in 1986 on "Neurological Basis of Visual
Imagery". Since 1995 he is head of the Neuropsychological
Department of Bogenhausen Hospital in Munich which is concerned with
rehabilitation of brain damaged patients. He is associate editor of
"Neuropsychologia" and "Cortex". His has published
papers and chapters on visual imagery, visual agnosia, anosognosia,
memory disorders and apraxia and a (German) textbook on neuropsychology.
In the last years his main research interests were disorders of
imitation and of use and tool and objects. He has collaborated in
functional imaging studies but the emphasis of his work is on the
cognitive neuropsychology of brain lesions in man. After
some years of studying architecture in Munich and psychology and
comparative literature at the University of Maryland, Joseph
P. Huston concentrated
on Physiological Psychology at Tufts University where he obtained the
PhD degree in 1969. He then spent two years with Jan Bureš at the
Institute of Physiology in Prague supported by the National Academy of
Sciences Exchange Program; then, he worked with Alex Borbely at the
Institute of Pharmacology in Zürich. Since 1978 he has the chair in
Physiological Psychology at the University of Düsseldorf. Over the
years his group has focused on diverse issues, including intracranial
self-stimulation, rodent models of Parkinson’s disease, the
relationship between reinforcement and memory processes, the role of
neuropeptides in learning and emotionality, the behavioural function of
neuronal histamine. Current interests focus on behavioural and
neurochemical phenotyping of genetic manipulated mice (NMDA receptor
subunits, connexin knockouts relevant to gap junctions, nitric oxide),
and on individual differences in ageing-related behavioural deficits and
their anatomical and physiological concomitants. He has developed an
active exchange and collaboration with Brazilian laboratories in
Ribeirao Preto and Brasilia over two decades. He is chief editor of
Behavioural Brain Research and Reviews in the Neurosciences and the book
series on Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences.
Nomination for the secretariat Martine
Ammassari-Teule is
Head of the Psychobiology Unit at the Laboratory of Psychobiology and
Pharmacology of the National Institute for Neuroscience (CNR) in Rome.
She started her scientific career in France at the Institute of
Neurophysiology and Psychophysiology in Marseille directed by Prof. J.
Paillard then moved to the Laboratory of Neural Physiology of the
National Scientific Research Center (CNRS), in Gif-sur Yvette, where she
gained her PhD under the supervision of Prof. V. Bloch. Her research
activity is focussing on the neurogenetic and molecular bases of memory
systems with a special interest devoted to spatial learning. She has
been teaching as “Invited Professor” at the University of Orsay,
France, and the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Italy”. She is
the author of numerous international publications in the field of
Neuroscience, consultant for international steering organisations, and
member of the editorial board of the Journal “Behaviour Genetics”.
In 1998, she has been elected member of the scientific committee of the
European Brain and Behaviour Society and, in 2001, member of the board
of the Italian Neuroscience Society, responsible for Behavioural
Neuroscience. From 2001, she has been appointed “acting secretary”
of the European Brain and Behaviour Society.
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