3rd UK Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium

Early brain-behaviour relationships and prognostic indicators

This symposium will provide a contemporary account of research findings investigating early brain-behaviour relationships and prognostic indicators relevant to clinical practice. Online-only access is also now available.

Dates: Monday 23 – Friday 27 April 2012

Key deadlines

• Abstract submission deadline: Friday 17 February 2012
• Early-bird discounts end: Thursday 23 February 2012
• Online-only registration closes: Friday 23 March 2012

Programme

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.

International on-line access: Baby Brains Around the World

It is now also possible to register for online-only access to the conference. The online project aims to facilitate communication and networking opportunities for academics and practitioners across the globe interested in early human cognition and its developmental pathways.

Online delegates can use their personal access code to view the lectures which will be broadcast live on the conference website and also view recordings of the lectures until the conference website closes on 4 June 2012. Delegates registering to attend the conference will also have access to the website. All delegates will have access to electronic version of the lecture hand-outs, scientific posters, conference proceedings, information from sponsors and access to the on-line delegate forums for discussion.

Abstract submissions: the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to Friday 17 February 2012.

As an on-line delegate it is also possible to submit abstracts for posters that will be displayed in a secure format for viewing on the conference website.

The symposium forms part of the BPS accredited training programme in Clinical Paediatric Neuropsychology 

APA CPD Credits & BMA Credits applied for.

Who should attend?

• Neuropsychologists
• Clinical Psychologists
• Educational Psychologists
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
• Paediatric Neurologists
• Neurodevelopmental Paediatricians
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Neonatologists

Call for abstracts

Abstracts for posters are invited on any study or aspect of work relating to paediatric neuropsychology. Abstracts will be published in April 2012 as part of the symposium proceedings in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.

For further information visit the University College London website or download the abstract submission form (Word document, 159KB).

Speakers and working titles

Professor Vicki Anderson, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Disrupting the developing brain: what are the consequences and why?
  

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

• Genetic and environmental vulnerabilities: the importance of cross-syndrome comparisons
  

Professor Mark Johnson, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

• Development of the social brain in infancy

Professor Neil Marlow, University College London, UK

• Preterm birth: Neurocognitive and psychiatric outcomes

Professor Charles A. Nelson, Harvard Medical School, USA

• The effects of early institutionalisation on brain and behavioural development
•  A cognitive neuroscience approach to early memory development

Dr Debra Mills, Bangor University, UK

• Early word learning and the developing brain
  

Course Directors

• Dr Peter Rankin, Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Senior Lecturer, UCL Institute of Child Health
• Dr Michelle de Haan, Reader in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Child Health

Location 

UCL Institute of Child Health, London (map and directions)

Timetable

Monday: Registration from 10.00, Introduction 11.15, Reception 17.30-18.30

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: Lectures start 09.30, close 17.30

Friday: Lectures start 09.30, close 16.00

Fees

External student rates

Early bird rate (extended to 23/02/2012): £495
Standard rate (after 23/02/12): £595

Please note, these places are limited to students currently enrolled in a postgraduate degree with a letter of support from the student's university supervisor or head of department.

All delegates registered to attend the symposium will also be given a personal access code to view the online content until 4 June 2012.

Online-only registration

Early bird rate (until 23/02/2012): £199

Standard rate (until online regsitration closes on 23/03/2012): £250

Delegates will be given a unique access code to the website on UCL Moodle. It is the delegates' responsibility to ensure that they have computing and internet facilitites capable of viewing the video files. Examples of such videos are available to view via http://www.ucl.ac.uk/popfootprints/archived-videos. Use of access codes will be monitored and access may be withdrawn where possible abuse is detected.

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