This symposium will provide a contemporary account of research findings investigating early brain-behaviour relationships and prognostic indicators relevant to clinical practice. Experimental, clinical and epidemiological techniques designed to assess the development of cognitive, emotional and social behaviour will be described. A host of leading international speakers will participate in this symposium in order to consider contemporary knowledge of the effects of genetics and the environment on neurocognitive development and prognostic indicators that can inform medical and psycho-social interventions.
Baby Brains Around the World Project: An International On-Line Conference
Dates: Website Open Between 23 April - 4 June 2012
As well as standard registration to attend the symposium in person it is now possible to register for ON-LINE ONLY access to the conference. The on-line Baby Brains project aims to widen communication & networking opportunities as far as possible for academics and practitioners across the globe interested in early human cognition and its developmental pathways.
Lectures will be filmed and broadcast on the secure conference website by UCL Media Services.
On-line delegates will have electronic access to:
- Live streaming and video files of lectures available to watch repeatedly until 4th June 2012.
- Proceedings of the conference.
- All lecture hand-outs.
- All scientific posters.
- Interactive delegate discussion forums.
- Details of information from our sponsors.
N.B. Delegates who register to attend the conference in person will also have access to all aspects of the on-line conference until 4 June 2012.
Call for Abstracts for Posters
- Abstracts on any aspect of paediatric neuropsychology will be considered.
- All accepted abstracts will be published in a supplement of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology in April 2012 as part of the proceedings.
- All posters will be displayed electronically in JPEG format on the conference website (available to delegates only). Delegates who register to attend the conference in person will also display on poster boards.
- Each author may submit any number of abstracts.
- Abstract submission deadline is Monday 9 January 2012
Speakers and working titles:
Professor Jocelyne Bachevalier, Emory University, USA
- Neuroanatomy of the developing social brain
- Nonhuman primate models of infant memory development
Professor Tanya Byron, Edge Hill University, UK
- The effects of the digital world on childrens' behavioural and emotional development
Professor Helen Cross, UCL Institute of Child Health, UK
- Outcomes following epilepsy in infancy
Dr. Naomi Dale, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, UK
- Outcomes following visual impairment in infancy
Dr. Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM-CEA, France
- Nature and nurture in language acquisition: Anatomical and functional brain-imaging studies in infants
Professor Adele Diamond, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- Biological processes in prevention and intervention
- Development and functions of the frontal lobes in infancy
Professor Christopher Gillberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- ESSENCE: Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations
- Early indicators of social and attention disorders
Professor Paavo Leppänen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Early neurobiological predictors of developmental language-related disorders
Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
- Nativism versus neuroconstructivism: Rethinking the study of developmental disorders
Professor Mark Johnson, Birkbeck, University of London, UK (* awaiting permission to broadcast on-line)
- Development of the social brain in infancy
Professor Neil Marlow, University College London, UK
- Preterm birth: Neurocognitive and psychiatric outcomes
Dr Debbie Mills, Bangor University, UK (* awaiting permission to broadcast on-line)
- Early word learning and the developing brain
Professor Charles A. Nelson, Harvard Medical School, USA
- The effects of early institutionalisation on social behaviour and underlying neural correlates
- A cognitive neuroscience approach to infant memory development
Sponsorship opportunities:
For sponsorship details please contact Claire Lister
For Previous Sponsors click here
Fees & Dates
| Early Bird Registration | Standard Registration | |
| ICH London attendance & on-line access | £695 (until 16 January 2012) | £895 (until places are full) |
| On-Line access ONLY (no ICH London attendance) |
£199 (until 16 January 2012) | £250 (*closes on 23 March 2012) |
Please note we are closing the registration for on-line only access on 23 March 2012 to ensure all delegates are set-up on the UCL electronic system with usernames and passwords.
ICH/GOSH internal staff, ICH MSc Paediatric Neuropsychology Alumni and current post-graduate students in full-time courses can apply for a limited number of special discounted rates for the ICH London registration via Claire Lister
Registration form here
Symposium Directors: Dr Michelle De Haan & Dr Peter Rankin