Your Twelve-Year-Old’s Brain Chapter in Think Tank
Professor Wilbrecht's essay, Your Twelve-Year-Old Isn't Just Sprouting New Hair but Is Also Forming (and Being Formed by) New Neural Connections, appears in Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience (David J. Linden, ed. 2018).
Hoshal & Okada Awards
Undergraduate awards: Ben Hoshal won an MCB poster award and Nana Okada won a Psychology poster award. Congratulations to Ben and Nana!
Importance of investing in adolescence from a developmental science perspective
This review summarizes the case for investing in adolescence as a period of rapid growth, learning, adaptation, and formational neurobiological development. Adolescence is a dynamic maturational period during which young lives can pivot rapidly—in both negative and positive directions. Scientific progress in understanding adolescent development provides actionable insights into windows
Cosyne abstracts are Due Nov. 20
Cosyne abstracts are Due Nov. 20 for the meeting in March in Denver.
Congrats Wan Chen
Wan Chen Lin passed her qualifying exam! Congratulations Wan Chen!
Wan Chen Lin Wins Poster Award at Flux
In September many of us attended the Flux Congress on brain development in Portland. Wan Chen Lin won a poster award. David Piekarski and Wan Chen Lin also won travel awards. Congratulations David and Wan Chen! Next year Flux will be in Berlin.