LaBerge Mind & Brain Speaker Series

Andrew J. Gerber, MD, PhD, Medical Director and CEO of the Austen Riggs Center and associate clinical professor at Columbia University, will present a lecture titled "The Neuroscience of Complex Psychiatric Diagnoses."

In addition to his roles at Austen Riggs and Columbia, Gerber is also an associate clinical professor at the Child Study Center at Yale University and an adjunct associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in the College of Natural Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Gerber is also the former co-director of the Sackler Parent-Infant Program at Columbia University, former director of the MRI Research Program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and former director of research at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. While in New York, he also had a private psychoanalytic practice.

The LaBerge Mind & Brain Speaker Series brings together scholars and practitioners in Berkshire County to explore, learn about, and discuss contemporary theory, research, and practice in the fields of neuroscience and neuropsychology. The series seeks to recognize, celebrate, and support neuroscience in the Berkshires. Talks are held on the campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock and are free and open to the public.

The theme for the 2018-19 series is Berkshire Connections, and highlights neuroscientists in the Berkshires or with connections to institutions in the Berkshires.  

The series name recognizes the contributions of former Simon’s Rock faculty member David LaBerge, whose work continues to make significant contributions to our understanding of consciousness, and whose teaching inspired many students at Simon’s Rock and elsewhere in the study of neuropsychology.