Conferences

The Society organizes general meetings and co-sponsors symposia and conferences on specific topics of interest to Society members. Webcasts of many such meetings are linked on the Society website to permit members to view these presentations and to comment if they wish. Members who wish to have a conference co-sponsored by the Society should contact the Chair of the Conference Committee.

First Meeting of the Society

The Society for Social Neuroscience will host its first meeting from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. on November 12, 2010 in San Diego, California USA (prior to the Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience). You may register for the conference here. Please register now; space is limited. There is no cost to register for or to attend the meeting.

(Please note: A preliminary program recently distributed by the Society for Neuroscience lists the beginning of the meeting as 11:30 am. This is an error; the meeting begins at noon.)

The program for the meeting is as follows:

Meeting Program

12:00 - 2:15 - Session 1

Chair: Jean Decety, University of Chicago
Gene Robinson (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)
Social regulation of brain gene expression and aggression in honey bees.
Bob and Carol Blanchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Measuring social behavior in the rat and mouse.
Larry Young (Emory University)
Neuropeptides, bonding, and social cognition in voles to man.
Bruce McEwen (Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Rockefeller University)
The neurobiology and neuroendocrinology of stress, socioeconomic status, and health.

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. - Break

2:45 - 5:00 - Session 2

Chair: Gary Berntson, Ohio State University
Mario Mendez (Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles)
The problems that frontotemporal patients have in their social relationships.
David Amodio (Department of Psychology, New York University)
The role of the frontal lobe in social cognition, emotion, and the regulation of behavior.
Colin Camerer (Behavioral Economics, California Institute of Technology)
Neuroeconomics.
Martha Farah (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania)
Neuroscience and society.

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Reception and Business Meeting

John Cacioppo & Jean Decety (Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago)

Information about the Society for Neuroscience meeting (November 13-17, 2010) is available at: http://www.sfn.org/am2010/. (The first meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience is a satellite of this conference).

Additional Conferences Co-Sponsored by the Society for Social Neuroscience