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10/20/08

Autism Is Topic For Neuroscience Lecture At St. Lawrence

CANTON - "Where Are We With The Autisms?" is the title of the third annual Church Lecture in Neuroscience, to be presented by Vanderbilt University Professor Pat Levitt at St. Lawrence University on Tuesday, October 28, at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of Hepburn Hall. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

Levitt is Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair; professor of pharmacology; and director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development at Vanderbilt. He studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the development of the forebrain, and the causes for developmental and neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism, anxiety and schizophrenia.

The Richard D. Church Lectureship Fund in Neuroscience was established in 2006 by retired engineer Church, of Norwood, in honor of his scientific collaborations with the late G. Atwood Manley, who graduated from St. Lawrence in 1916 and was the long-time editor of the St. Lawrence Plaindealer; the late Class of 1952 graduate Edward E. Bliss, Church's brother-in-law and national canoeing champion partner; the late Class of 1914 graduate Clarence C. Church, Richard Church's uncle; and the late Emeritus Professor of Physics Alfred Romer.

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