Speakers & Topics include:

* Gilles Julien: A Revolution in Pediatric Care: Social Pediatrics

* Michael Meaney: Lifelong Effects of Good Parenting: How Early Experience affects Gene Expression and exploring its implications

* Nils Bergman on The Importance of Touch: Skin-to-Skin Contact produces Better NICU Outcomes than Incubators

* Ruth Feldman on Factors Regulating the Bond between Parents & Infants

* Sue Carter on Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Love: Implications for Mental Health and Mental Illness

* Stan Kutcher on Adolescent Mental Health

* Jon Kabat-Zinn on Mindfulness-based Stress and Pain Reduction

* Paul Patterson: Interactions between the Brain & Immune System: Implications for Autism & Schizophrenia

* David Barker on Nutrition in the Womb Matters: Fetal Programing and Fetal Origins of Disease

* Jane Garland on Creatively Helping Youths Tame Depression & Anxiety

* Tim Oberlander on Effects of Mother?s Mood &/or Use of Meds during Pregnancy

* Robert Bjork: How We Learn vs. How We Think We Learn

* George Rebok, Blythe Corbett: Interventions that Work

* Alcino Silva: How Findings on the Cellular & Molecular Bases of Learning & Memory are leading to ways to Reverse Developmental Disorders

* Robert Stickgold, PhD on Brain Processes during Sleep for Learning & Memory

* Mahzarin Banaji, Jack Dovidio, Ara Ara Norenzayan: Cultural Diversity (three presentations from three different perspectives)


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