Rita G. Rudel-Lucy G. Moses Past Lectures

2024: ​​​​​Aniruddh D. Patel, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Tufts University, "Music, Language, and the Developing Brain"​

2023: ​​​​​Gloria Choi, PhD, Investigator, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, "Neuroimmune Interactions Shaping Social Behavior"

2022: NO LECTURE

2021: NO LECTURE

2020: Susan E. Carey, PhD, Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Psychology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, “The Origin of Concepts: A Case Study of Concepts of Life and Death”

2019: Marlene Behrmann, PhD, Thomas S. Baker University Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, “Visual Cortex: Lessons Learned from Focal Lesions and Lobectomy”

2018: Peg Nopoulos, MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City “The Effect of the Huntington Gene on Brain Development”

2017: Darryl C. De Vivo, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY “Glut1 Deficiency: Lessons Learned from Rare Diseases”

2016: Jeffrey R. Gruen, MD, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT “Presymptomatic Genetic Screening for Reading and Language Disorders: Implications for the Future of Education”

2015: Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA “Tuberous Sclerosis: Shedding Light on the Neural Circuitry of Autism”

2014: Martha J. Farah, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA “Childhood Poverty and Brain Development: From Science to Policy”

2013: NO LECTURE

2012: Carla Shatz, PhD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA “Releasing the Brake on Synaptic Plasticity”

2011: Stephanie L. Sherman, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA “Fragile X-Associated Disorders: A Woman’s View from the Heart of the Family”

2010: Daniel H. Geschwind, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles “Autism: From Genes, to Brain, to Cognition and Behavior”

2009: Brenda Milner, PhD, ScD, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec “An Historical Perspective on the Evolution of Concepts of Memory”

2008: Scott T. Grafton, MD, University of California at Santa Barbara “Embodied Cognition; How Physical Experience Changes the Way We See Others”

2007: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA “The Plastic Human Brain”

2006: Pat R. Levitt, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN “Translational Research Strategies Applied to Autism”

2005: David Picketts, PhD, University of Ottawa, ON “Mutations in Epigenetic Regulators as a Recurring Theme for Developmental Disabilities: Lessons from the ATR-X Syndrome”

2004; Sally E. Shaywitz, MD and Bennett A. Shaywitz, MD, Yale University, New Haven, CT “The Science of Reading: Overcoming Dyslexia”

2003: Maximilian Muenke, MD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD “Approaches to the Genetics of ADHD”

2002: Gottfried Schlaug, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA “The Brain that Makes Music”

2001: Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD, University of CA, San Diego “What Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature, Synesthesia and The Meaning of Art”

2000: John D.E. Gabrieli, PhD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA “Imaging the Biological Lottery of Child Brain Development”

1999: Jane Holmes Bernstein, PhD, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA “Assessing the Developing Brain: The Rudelian First Principle”

1998: Isabelle Rapin, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY “Autism”

1997: Maureen Dennis, PhD, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON “Plasticity Under the Tent: The Cerebellum in Neurodevelopmental Disorders”

1996: John C. Mazziotta, MD, PhD, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles “The Use of Functional Imaging to Study the Human Brain in Health and Disease”

1995: Michael Merzenich, PhD, University of CA, San Francisco “A Cortical Plasticity/Learning View of Human Disabilities: Origin and Remediation”

1994: Brenda Milner, PhD, ScD, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec “Some Thoughts on Memory and the Human Brain”

1993: Hanna B.C. Damasio, MD and Antonio R. Damasio, MD, PhD, University of Iowa, Iowa City “Memory, Language and the Human Brain”

1992: Ursula Bellugi, EdD, The Salk Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City “Language and Brain Organization”

1991: Michael S. Gazzaniga, PhD, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH “Mind Modules/Brain Modules”

1990: Marcus E. Raichle, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO “Modern Imaging Approaches to Human Cognition and Emotion: Establishing the Basis for Understanding the Developing and Damaged Brain”

1989: Paula Tallal, PhD, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ “From Biology to Behavior: New Frontiers in the Study of Developmental Disorders of Language and Learning”

1988: Albert M. Galaburda, MD, Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, MA “From Neurons to Reading: Natural Disposition and Environmental Fixation”

1987: Martha B. Denckla, MD, The Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD “Neurological Basis for Social Competence”