Learning Brain Expo features UTSA, UTHSCSA speakers

(July 16, 2002)--The Learning Brain Expo being held July 17-20 at the Marriott Rivercenter is featuring five speakers from UTSA and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The conference gathers learning experts to share the recent findings in brain research and translate them into practical, effective tools to facilitate the teaching and learning process.

This is the second year the conference has been conducted in San Antonio, with an additional conference conducted each year in San Diego. Previous conferences have drawn more than 1,000 participants.

Learning Brain Expo is conducted by The Brain Store, a San Diego, Calif. corporation that produces resource materials for businesses and schools. Admission to the conference is $585. For more information go to The Brain Store Web site.

Presenters at the conference include:

Clyde Phelix, UTSA associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology served as associate editor at Brain Research Publications, Inc. in the early 90s and has contributed numerous peer-reviewed research articles and more than 100 abstracts and presentations for international professional scientific meetings. His research interests include the anatomical, physiological, behavioral and molecular aspects of stress, anxiety and panic-especially as they relate to learning, memory and drug abuse.

Edwin Barea-Rodriguez is a lecturer at the Teacher Summer Institute in Neurobiology at UTSA. His research interest is on the role of the brain in learning and memory and he is also involved with K-12 education in San Antonio, where he sponsors school visits to the campus. Barea-Rodriguez holds a degree in biopsychology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Peter Pfordresher is a UTSA assistant professor of psychology in the Institute for Music Research. His research interests include the cognitive bases of music perception and performance.

James Bower is a professor of computational neuroscience at both UTSA and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. A pioneer in the effort to develop biologically accurate computer models of brain circuitry, Bower uniquely combines knowledge of brain science with an understanding of educational pedagogy. While a professor at the California Institute of Technology he co-directed the Caltech Pre-College Science Initiative, an internationally recognized project to support inquiry-based science learning in grades K-12.

Steven Pliszka, M.D., is an associate professor and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Physician Scientist Award. His research interests include psychopharmacology and the neurobiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He has an extensive clinical practice and oversees the treatment of more than 500 children and teenagers with ADHD, as well as serving as the psychiatric consultant for two facilities dealing with severely psychiatrically ill youth.

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