Neuroscience Lecture Series
The Neuroscience Program and Club presents a series of lectures every spring and fall semester, exploring current neuroscience research, applications and career opportunities. Weber State faculty also offer workshops on graduate school preparation. Lectures are free and open to all.
The Neuroscience Lecture Series is held in partnership with the College of Social Sciences & Education, the College of Science and the Dr. Ezekiel R. Dumke College of Health Professions.
Fall 2025 Neuroscience Lecture Series
Nov. 24 at 3 p.m.
Lindquist Hall 216 or via Zoom
Dr. Aminda O'Hare will present "The Dual-Anxiety Dance: Investigations of Neural and Cognitive Correlates and Ways to Intervene"
In this talk, I will go over a body of research from my lab that has investigated the unique neural and cognitive correlates of different types of trait anxiety, particularly anxious apprehension and anxious arousal. This research has spanned many labs from many different universities across my career. I will move from more basic science research that has probed attentional biases associated with these types of anxiety to more applied mindfulness-based interventions that are particularly effective for reducing anxious apprehension and related constructs.
Spring 2025 Archives
- The Role of Kirrel3-GABA Neurons in Learning and Memory - Alumnus Chandler Peterson
- Innovative Plasma Diagnostics for Alzheimer's: Strong Analytical and Clinical Performance of a p-Tau 217 Chemiluminescent Assay Available to Patients in Utah and Across the United States - Kelly Doyle, Ph.D.
Fall 2024 Archives
- Parts Unknown: Careers Outside Academic and Clinical Practice - Ben Carter, Ph.D.
- Applying to Graduate School - Sarah Herrmann, Ph.D.
- New at Weber! From Iowa to Maryland to Utah - Rachel Chase, Ph.D.
Spring 2024
- Creating Your Future: How to make opportunities with undergraduate research - Madisyn Carrington
- Using Psychophysiology to Explore Cognitive Processes within Psychopathology - Jacob Kraft, Ph.D.
- How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains - Courtney Henley, Ph.D.
Archives
Fall 2023
- Tips & Tricks for Applying to Grad School - Timothy Black, Ph.D. and Xin Zhao, Ph.D.
- Music, Microbes, and the Modern Era - Lynn White, Ph.D.
- Moving beyond the dark arts of mu opioid receptors: Targeting the opioid system for depression, cocaine addition, and pain - Todd Hillhouse, Ph.D.
Spring 2023
- Intermountain Doctoral Education to Advance Students (IDEAS) in Neuroscience- Karen Wilcox, Ph.D.
- The role of the Study Director in Preclinical drug development at a Contract Research Organization (CRO), Barak Gunter and Danielle Linihamrak (Recording not available)
- Executive and Mnemonic Fuctions of Human Posterior Cingulate Cortex - Lyndsey Aponik Gremillion.
- What's on your mind? The role of attention in social anxiety and depression - Matt Judah
Fall 2022
- Wiring the brain: the curious case of Kirrel3
- Tips and Tricks for Applying to Grad School
- Applying for REUs
- Alumni Panel
- Just Keep Swimming: What Zebrafish can teach us about brain regeneration.
Spring 2022
- Medical School Admissions & Beyond: How WSU's NS Helps Prepare you for Success in Medical School
- How to Become a Neuropsychologist: Advice from a former Wildcat
- Is it Getting Crowded in Here? The Neuropsychology of Brain Tumors
Spring 2021
- Tissue Engineering Models of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells to Replicate and Understand Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Pseudo-Diabetes in Alzheimer's Disease - The Fault is in Our "Stars"
Fall 2020
- The Importance of Mindfulness Practices in Times of Uncertainty: How Mindfulness Practice Reins in Mental Time Travel and Rumination
- Tips and Techniques for Applying to Graduate School
- The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Cupcakes to Smartphones, the Mechanism Underlying How Mindfulness Helps Change Habits and Overcome Addiction
- Empathy, Morality, and Fairness in the Brain: A Developmental Neuroscience Approach