International Conference
3rd Biennial, International Conference: Brain Development & Learning: Making sense of the science.
Date: July 16th -20th 2010
Venue: Hyatt Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada
This interdisciplinary conference is devoted to enriching & improving the lives of children by making cutting-edge research in neuroscience & child development available, relevant, & understandable to physicians, other clinicians, educators, parents, & all who care about children.
Speakers include: Dr. Gilles Julien on Social Pediatrics
Dr. David Barker on Fetal Preprograming and Fetal Origins of Disease
Dr. Stan Kutcher on Adolescent Mental Health
Alcino Silva, PhD on Reversing Developmental Disorders
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD on Mindfulness-based Stress and Pain
Reduction
Michael Meaney, PhD on How Early Experience affects Gene
Expression
Dr. Jane Garland on Creatively Helping Youths Tame Depression &
Anxiety
Paul Patterson, PhD on Interactions between the Brain & Immune
System in Utero
Dr. Tim Oberlander on Effects of Mother's Mood &/or Use of Meds
during Pregnancy
Dr. Nils Bergman on Skin-to-Skin Contact produces Better
Outcomes than Incubators
For more information contact http://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/bdl.html