The Frank A. & Gwladys H. Elliott Lecture in Behavioral Neurology
This annual lectureship, organized by the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences and the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, was established by Frank A. Elliott, MD. Dr. Elliott founded the department of neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1959. While his research and clinical work focused primarily upon stroke and stroke prevention, throughout his career he maintained an interest in behavioral neurology. He published and spoke on topics related to the neural basis of behavior, including work on the biological roots of violence. Dr. Elliott died May 28th, 2003 at the age of 92.
The Elliott Lecture in Behavioral Neurology is held each Spring as a part of the Department of Neurology's Grand Rounds program.
Honorees
| Year | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 - 22nd | Susan Bookheimer | UCLA School of Medicine | Integrating Animal and Human Neurobiological Models of Autism Spectrum Disorders |
| 2018 - 21st | Marsel Mesulam | Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine | What is Happening in Wernicke’s Area? |
| 2016 - 20th | Salvatore Aglioti | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy | Flesh made soul: Bodily representations in the brain of healthy and diseased people |
| 2015 - 19th | William Seeley | University of California, San Francisco | Selective Vulnerability in Neurodegenerative Disease: Insights From Frontotemporal Dementia |
| 2014 - 18th | Argye Hillis | Johns Hopkins University | The cognitive functions of the “silent hemisphere”, focusing on affective empathy and prosody |
| 2013 - 17th | Arthur F Kramer | Beckman Institute, University of Illinois | Take a Hike: Exercise, Brain & Cognition (canceled by snow) |
| 2012 - 16th | Faraneh Vargha-Khadem | University College London | Developmental amnesia: Growing up without episodic memory |
| 2011 - 15th | Helen Mayberg | Emory University | Deep Brain Stimulation: What can it teach us about the Pathophysiology of Depression? |
| 2010 - 14th | Adrian Owen | Cambridge University | When Thoughts Become Actions: Functional Imaging in Disorders of Consciousness |
| 2009 - 13th | Alvaro Pascual-Leone | Harvard University | What The Blind Teach Us About Seeing |
| 2008 - 12th | Nikos K. Logothetis | Max Planck Institute | From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far? |
| 2006 - 11th | Mark D'Esposito | UC, Berkeley | Towards Understanding the Role of the Frontal Lobes in Cognition |
| 2005 - 10th | Kenneth Heilman | University of Florida | Cognitive Motor Disorders: The Apraxias |
| 2002 - 9th | Joaquin M Fuster | UC, Los Angeles | Memory Networks in the Cerebral Cortex |
| 2001 - 8th | Daniel L Schacter | Harvard Medical School | The seven sins of memory: a cognitive neuroscience perspective |
| 2000 - 7th | Joseph LeDoux | New York University | Emotional synapses |
| 1999 - 6th | Michael Posner | Cornell University | Attentional networks for modulating thought, feelings, and behavior |
| 1998 - 5th | Michael Gazzaniga | Dartmouth University | The mind's past |
| 1997 - 4th | Al Galaburda | Harvard Medical School | Developmental plasticity: sex and hemisphere differences |
| 1996 - 3rd | Richard S.J. Frackowiak | University of London | Functional recovery: perspectives from brain imaging |
| 1995 - 2nd | Patricia Goldman-Rakic | Yale University | Opening the mind through neurobiology |
| 1993 - 1st | Marsel Mesulam | Harvard Medical School | An overview of the human limbic system |