Bruce Miller describes insights that can be gained about the human brain from patients who develop artistic abilities as neurodegenerative diseases emerge and progress. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 32443]

The human mind is one of the features that makes our species unusual, and any narrative of our origins must include explanations for how our mental facilities were generated by genetic and cultural evolutionary processes. Comparative studies with the minds of other species and direct studies of how the typical human brain creates the mind are valuable approaches. However, many useful clues can also be gleaned from studying extraordinary variations of the human mind. This Symposium brings...

Simon Fisher gives a fascinating account of how an irregularity in one single base of DNA leads to a rare and severe inherited language deficit, and how this finding helps reveal aspects of the evolutionary history of the human capacity for language. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 32441]

Introduction to the Extraordinary Variations of the Human Mind symposium. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 32449]

The human mind is one of the features that makes our species unusual, and any narrative of our origins must include explanations for how our mental facilities were generated by genetic and cultural evolutionary processes. Comparative studies with the minds of other species and direct studies of how the typical human brain creates the mind are valuable approaches. However, many useful clues can also be gleaned from studying extraordinary variations of the human mind. This Symposium brings...

UCLA's Daniel Geschwind explores how cognitive abilities - both extraordinary and those considered disabilities are related as part of the continuum of human behavior enabled by the evolutionary history of the human brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 32439]

Karen Berman of the National Institutes of Health explores how studying Williams Syndrome is revealing biological mechanisms that confer human variability. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 32440]

Rutgers University's April Benasich shares research into how critical periods of language acquisition in infants has lifetime effects, and also presents opportunities for improving learning impairment. Series: "Women in Science" [Science] [Show ID: 31759]

UC San Francisco's Matthew State provides a fascinating account of how the explosion of access to genetic information has led to a much deeper understanding of Autism and the possibility of developing interventions to treat Autism and other impairments such as Schizophrenia and Epilepsy. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 31766]

The Salk Institute's Terry Sejnowski provides a lively exploration of the challenges inherent in understanding the complexity of the human brain from the molecular to the entire nervous system, and how new technologies and methods are allowing us to know more, as well as reveal there is much to learn. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 31767]

Yale University's BJ Casey shares an in-depth look into the detrimental effects on the brain resulting in behavioral and developmental impairment caused by stress during childhood. Series: "Women in Science" [Science] [Show ID: 31760]

Three fascinating presentations explain how deeper understanding of neurological development reveals the basis of behavior and what factors can cause behavioral impairment, from external factors such as stress to critical periods of neurological growth and change in adolescence. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 31756]

UC San Diego adolescent psychiatrist Jay Giedd provides a fascinating explanation of why the teen brain is truly amazing, explaining how the critical period of neurological development during adolescence creates both challenges and opportunities, as well as showing how a deeper understanding of this development will provide insights into better interventions for mental illnesses. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and...

2016 Kavli Prize recipient Carla Shatz from Stanford University presents a lively exploration of how understanding early stages of neural development may be leading to a pathway for developing treatments for Alzheimer's Disease. Series: "Alzheimer’s Disease" [Science] [Show ID: 31763]

Harvard University's Beth Stevens reveals how understanding the role of immune cells in neural development may lead to better understanding and treatment of neurological impairments such as schizophrenia. Series: "Women in Science" [Science] [Show ID: 31764]

Question and Answer session and closing remarks for the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind's symposium Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 31769]

From mice to primates to humans, Harvard University's Catherine Dulac provides a fascinating account of research that reveals the specific factors in the brain that govern parenting behavior that are shared by all mammals. Series: "Women in Science" [Science] [Show ID: 31761]

MIT's Mark Bear presents a fascinating account of how understanding neural plasticity, or the ability to modify the function of neurons, led to a novel treatment for visual impairment in Amblyopia, and may reveal pathways to treat other neurological conditions. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 31765]

Three fascinating presentations show how explorations into synaptic development and genetic mutation are revealing pathways to better interventions for neurological impairment, from Schizophrenia and Amblyopia to Autism. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 31757]

Three fascinating presentations reveal how exploring changes during critical periods of brain development may lead to interventions, therapies and perhaps cures to conditions from learning disabilities to Alzheimer's Disease. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 31758]

Introduction and opening remarks to the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind's symposium Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function. Series: "Influence of Early Experience on Adult Brain Organization and Function - Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 31768]