Room 240B, Silverman Hall

CANCELED – Public Talk Series: “The Brains Behind Morality”

Room 240B, Silverman Hall 3400 Chestnut St., Philadelphia

This talk has been canceled. Reschedule date TBA Patricia Churchland, D.Litt, B.Phil, LLD, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego Patricia Churchland was an early proponent of the mutual relevance of neuroscience and philosophy.  In her own work she has used developments in neuroscience to clarify philosophical issues concerning [...]

CANCELED – Public Talk Series: “Controlling Brain Plasticity”

Room 240B, Silverman Hall 3400 Chestnut St., Philadelphia

This talk has been canceled due to inclement weather. Reschedule date TBA. Takao Hensch, PhD, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University Takao Hensch, PhD studies brain plasticity, that is, the ways in which life experience shapes the brain, with particular attention to timing effects, i.e. the effects of early versus [...]

Public Talk Series: “Brain Development and Public Policy: Translating What We Discover Into What They Do”

Room 240B, Silverman Hall 3400 Chestnut St., Philadelphia

Pat Levitt, PhD, Institute for the Developing Mind, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Pat Levitt, PhD is a neurobiologist whose research focuses on brain development in a variety of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders and the environmental and genetic factors that predispose to them. He heads a lab at the Children's Hospital [...]