Seminars:

Associate Professor Jayne Lucke is currently visiting the United States and Canada. On her travels Associate Professor Lucke will be attending  both the Penn Conference on Clinical Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania and the 'Neuroscience Bootcamp' (a neuroscience course for non-neuroscientists) at the University of Pennsylvania which is  run by the Center fro Neuroscience and Society. Associate Professor Lucke will also be presenting on "Aniticipating the anti-aging pill and 'life extention technologies': Lessons from reproductive technologies," as an invited presentation at Institut de recherche cliniques de Montreal, Montreal, Canada and again as  an invited presentation with Dr Brad Partridge, at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, US.

Rebecca Mathews recently presented at Living Well: Programs, Policy and Research to Improve Public Health heald by the Queensland Public Health Association. The presentation discussed a study of smoking, economic disadvantage and psychological distress in the 1997 and 2007 National Surveys of Mental Health and Well-Being. The study showed smokers had higher disadvantage and distress in both years. There was no evidence of increased distress in smokers from 1997 to 2007, but there was some evidence suggestive of an increase in socioeconomic disadvantage in smokers over that period. Professor Wayne Hall and Dr Coral Gartner were co-authors on this study. The team plans to replicate this study using the 2001, 2005 and 2007 National Health Survey data.

Professor Wayne  Hall recently (July 14th) made a presentation, for the Beurea of Crime Statistics and Research (BOSCAR). The presentation, entitled "Legally coerced treatment for heroin addicted offenders: ethical and policy issues," was a part of the seminar series by BOSCAR and discussed methadone maintenance and crime. The series is for researchers, policy makers and practitioners to discuss issues that affect decision making within the criminal justice system.

Jennifer Waddoups currently conducting her PhD with Professor Wayne Hall as her supervisor will  be presenting on her thesis topic as a part of the UQ Centre for Clinical Research RHD student seminar series in November. The presentation will cover the gambling, its neurobiological basis, gambling policy within Australia and the future direction of research within the area.  

See Event archives for past seminars.

Current Conferences:

There are no current conferences.

Click here to see archives from the recent 2010 Introducing Addiction Neuroethics Conference