The Samuel Eiduson Student Lectureship was initiated in 1993 to recognize extraordinarily meritorious contributions by a neuroscience graduate student. This lectureship was named in honor of Dr. Samuel Eiduson for his many years of dedication to the Neuroscience Program and the Brain Research Institute. Dr. Eiduson served as the Chairman of the Interdepartmental Program for Neuroscience from its inception in 1972 until 1985, and was instrumental in forwarding the careers of many UCLA neuroscientists and graduates. Each year one student who has conducted especially commendable work during his/her thesis study delivers a lecture describing his/her work.

This year the Seventeenth Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture, “Neural Correlates of Emotion and Inhibitory Control During Early Abstinence from Methamphetamine,” was presented by Doris Payer, a senior graduate student in the laboratory of Edythe London. As a graduate student, Doris has shown outstanding potential for high-quality, independent research. She is absolutely committed to a career in cognitive neuroscience, and has shown tremendous dedication to making contributions to drug abuse research. During her undergraduate and graduate training, Doris was eager to find and take advantage of training opportunities in animal and human research, especially using fMRI. Through laboratory experience and a series of rigorous training programs, including summer courses and methodology seminars, she has gained an excellent foundation in neuroimaging and the highly technical skills that give her strength and independence in this area. She has been competitively selected as a trainee on a number of NIH institutional training grants, including a grant focused on behavioral neuroscience and the recently established Neuroimaging Training Program. Through these programs, Doris has extended her technical skills and acquired analytical techniques in neuroimaging, while being immersed in research activities in basic neuroscience, including in the Center for Translational Neurobiology of Addiction, directed by Dr. London. In addition to the substantial technical acumen that Doris has, she is also a gifted writer. This is demonstrated by her first authorship on two peer-reviewed original articles and a recent review, co-authorship on an additional research article and a book chapter, and successful grant-writing, evidenced by her recent individual NRSA award, and her contributions to numerous grant proposals submitted by the laboratory, and successful proposals for pilot studies. Doris has taken part in a number of national meetings, and has repeatedly presented her work on methamphetamine abuse at the annual meetings of the Society for Neuroscience. Her work has also been competitively selected for presentation at a “hot topics” session at the annual meeting of the College on the Problems of Drug Dependence.

Previous Samuel Eiduson Student Lecturers
Year	Student	Lecture Title
1993 1st Eiduson Student Lecturer	David Rector	“Illuminating the Brain: Neural Activation Produces Changes in Light Scattering”
1994 2nd Eiduson Student Lecturer	Michael DeRosa	“Why Do Children Seize? What Epileptic Brain Tissue Tells Us”
1995 3rd Eiduson Student Lecturer	Kerry Thompson	“Focal Status Epilepticus in the Immature Brain”
1996 4th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Li-Tao Zhong	“A Novel Type of Cell Death Receptor in Neocortical Neurons”
1997 5th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Christine Schulteis	“Aspects of Shaker Potassium Channel Biogenesis Revealed by Analysis of Mutant Subunits”
1998 6th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Paul Thompson	“Mathematical/Computational Strategies for Human Brain Mapping and Pathology Detection”
1999 7th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Albert Cha	“Using Optical Probes to Study the Behavior of Voltage-Gated Ion Channels”
2000 8th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Paul Gray	“Every Breath You Take: Looking for the Respiratory Rhythm Generator”
2001 9th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Holly Carlisle	“The Role of NMDA Receptor Associated Proteins in Hippocampal LTP”
2002 10th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Robert Agate	“Sex Chromosomes as Carriers for Genes Involved in Sex Specific Brain Development”
2003 11th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Christopher Cain	“Overcoming Fear: Behavioral Pharmacology and Physiology of Fear Extinction in Mice”
2004 12th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Spencer Smith	“The Role of Spontaneously Firing Neurons and New Tools for Exploring Them”
2005 13th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Keri Martinowich	“Epigenetic Gene Regulation in Mental Retardation Disorders”
2006 14th Eiduson Student Lecturer	John Ohab	“A Novel Neurovascular Niche for Neurogenesis after Stroke”
2007 15h Eiduson Student Lecturer	Louisa Wang	“The Circadian Regulation of Learning and Memory”
2008 16th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Woj Wojtowicz	“A Role for Molecular Diversity and Specificity in Wiring the Fly Brain”
2009 17th Eiduson Student Lecturer	Doris Payer	“Neural Correlates of Emotion and Inhibitory Control During Early Abstinence from Methamphetamine”