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Program
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Monday May 18, 2009
10:00 welcome, registration and coffee
Session I: Brain Development
In the session “Brain Development”, speakers will give an overview of the current state of knowledge with respect to structural and functional brain development. They will cover the latest advances in the field of intellectual development, memory and learning, and emotion control. This session will set the stage for discussion of methods and applications.
10:40 Opening
11:00 Jay Giedd
11:50 BJ Casey
12:40 Lunch break
14:00 Kathleen Thomas
14:30 introduction discussion topics
15:00-18:00 poster session
The size of the poster-boards is 90 by 120 cm (in vertical position).
18:30- Speakers dinner
Tuesday May 19, 2009
9:00- Welcome and coffee
Session II: Methods
In the “Methods” section, speakers will highlight the methodological challenges of imaging a child’s brain. They will discuss how performance differences may influence our interpretation of brain activation differences, and will cover conceptual challenges in interpreting developmental brain imaging data. This session will be directed at defining methodological and conceptual difficulties that will be discussed in the following sessions.
10:00- Brad Schlaggar
10:30- Catherine Sebastian
10:45- Beatriz Luna
11:15- Coffee break
11:45- Esther Keulers
12:00- Russ Poldrack
12:30- Lunch break
14:00- Bruce McCandliss
14:30- Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
14:45- Wouter van den Bos
15:00- Discussion Session
15:30- Closed session
18:30- Conference dinner
Wednesday May 20, 2009
9:00- Welcome and coffee
Session III: Plasticity/Training
In the “Plasticity/Training” session, speakers will discuss research that highlights the potential and limitations in imaging brain changes across development within the areas of working memory, reading and intellectual functions more generally. This session will focus on single time point versus longitudinal measurements and the interpretation of brain activation in both scenarios.
10:00- Torkel Klingberg
10:30- Dietsje Jolles
10:45- Tomáš Paus
11:15- Coffee break
11:45- Silvia Bunge
12:15- Discussion Session
12:45- Lunch break
Session IV: Child Psychiatry
In the last session, “Child Psychiatry”, experts in brain imaging of deviant brain development will discuss the possibilities and challenges of brain imaging in atypical populations. Speakers will discuss how the methodological challenges from the preceding sessions are relevant to the interpretation of brain imaging in atypical development.
14:00- Kerstin Konrad
14:30- Janna Van Belle
14:45- Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
15:15- Coffee break
15:45- Patrick de Zeeuw
16:00- Philip Shaw
16:30- Discussion Session
17:15- Closing
17:30: Farewell & Drinks