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Four Dimensions of Childhood - Day 1 Schedule
Friday, February 11th, 2005
Friday/Day 1: The Interface of Brain and Culture in Early Life
| 7:30-8:00 | Breakfast Registration and Distribution of Conference Kit |
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| 8:00-8:30 | Introduction Robert Lemelson, PhD, The Foundation for Psychocultural Research, UCLA Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, PhD, UCLA |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Early relationships: An anthropological perspective Melvin Konner, MD, PhD, Emory University |
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| Session 1: | Ethnographic Case Study & Interdisciplinary Roundtable-1 | |
| 9:00-10:15 | Culture, biology, and attachment in Central Africa and the United States: An integrated evolutionary approach Presented by Barry Hewlett, PhD, Washington State University Moderator: Thomas Weisner, PhD, UCLA Panelists: Hensch, Konner, LeVine, Plotsky |
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| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 2: | Life Long Biological Effects of Infant Experience Session Chair: Paul Plotsky, PhD, Director, Stress Neurobiology Laboratory, Emory University School of Medicine |
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| 10:45-11:10 | Critical period mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity Takao K. Hensch, PhD, Laboratory for Neural Circuit Development, Brain Science Institute (RIKEN), Japan |
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| 11:10-11:35 | Epigenetic regulation of behavior in rodents: The importance of mom Darlene Francis, PhD, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 11:35-12:00 | Rodent and primate models of vulnerability to mood disorders: Through the looking glass Paul Plotsky, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine |
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| 12:00-12:30 | Comments (10 minutes) and Discussion (20 minutes) | |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch and Poster Session | |
| Session 3: | Clinical Case Study & Interdisciplinary Roundtable-2 | |
| 2:00-3:15 | A mother-infant case study involving intergenerational violent trauma and
pseudoseizures across three generations: Observations through age 4 years Presented by Daniel S. Schechter, MD, Columbia University Moderator: Mark Barad, MD, PhD, UCLA Panelists: Fox, Francis, Mayer, Karp, Weisner |
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| 3:15-3:45 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 4: | Psychological and Anthropological Perspectives on Early Attachment Relationships Session Chair: Robert LeVine, PhD, Harvard University |
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| 3:45-4:10 | Temperament and social engagement: The origins of human infant attachment Nathan Fox, PhD, University of Maryland |
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| 4:10-4:35 | Outcome correlates of parent-child
bedsharing: An eighteen-year longitudinal study Thomas S. Weisner, PhD, UCLA |
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| 4:35-5:00 | Plasticity and variation: Cultural
influences on parenting and early child development within and across populations Robert A. LeVine, PhD, Harvard Graduate School of Education |
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| 5:00-5:30 | Comments (10 minutes) and Discussion (20 minutes) | |
| 7:30-9:00 | Special Keynote Panel: Implications of the tsunami disaster in the Aceh region on Indonesian children and families
Moderated by Allan J. Tobin, PhD, Managing Director, MRSSI; Professor Emeritus, UCLA; former Director, Brain Research Institute, UCLA Cameron Hay-Rollins, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, UCLA Center for Culture and Health Helianti Hilman, SH, LLM, Executive Director, Yayasan Bina Usaha Lingkungan (YBUL) Douglas Hollan, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCLA Livia Iskandar-Dharmawan, Dra., MA, Coordinator, Pulih Foundation - Center for The Prevention & Intervention of Psychotrauma, Jakarta, Indonesia Melvin Konner, MD, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and the Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University Robert S. Pynoos, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA; Co-Director, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Geoffrey Robinson, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UCLA Stephen J. Suomi, PhD, Chief of the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
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