Seminar to study pain

A seminar that will teach participants memory training techniques will be presented at 2 p.m. Wed., Nov. 6 at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. Gary Small, M.D., director of the UCLA Center on Aging and Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging, will teach methods for recalling names, faces, phone numbers and other information. Participants will "learn simple, basic memory training techniques that will produce immediate results," according to Dr. Small.

Tickets are $5. For more information, please call (310) 794-0679 or visit the Website at www.aging.ucla.edu.

From 11 a.m.-noon on Tues., Nov. 12, neurologist Howard L. Fields, M.D. will present a lecture, "The Pain is Mainly in Your Brain—Learn About the Psychology of Pain," in the Neuropsychiatric Institute Auditorium on the UCLA campus. Dr. Fields will present an overall view of how the brain can alleviate or intensify the experience of pain. He will draw from clinical studies and experiments in psychophysics, sensory physiology, pharmacology and functional imaging. Fields is a professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the University of California in San Francisco.

Admission is free. Parking is $7. For more information, please call (310) 825-5300 or visit the Website at www.uclamindbody.org.