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Jonathan S. Comer
Director, Early Childhood Interventions Program Boston University www.bu.edu/card/profile/jonathan-s-comer-ph-d What does your research focus on? Broadly speaking, my research examines the complex interplays among psychological, physiological, and socio-contextual aspects of childhood mental disorders and their treatments.
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Virginia Sturm
University of California, San Francisco canlab.ucsf.edu What does your research focus on? My research focuses on how neural systems support emotion and how disruption in these systems relates to alterations in emotion and empathy. I
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Tiago V. Maia
University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Columbia University http://tiagomaia.org/ What does your research focus on? In terms of psychological processes, I am interested in automatic behaviors, such as habits, and emotional responses, such as fear, with
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Ryan Bogdan
Washington University in St. Louis psychweb.wustl.edu/people/ryan-bogdan What does your research focus on? My research investigates how genetic variation and environmental experience contribute to individual differences in brain function, behavior, and psychopathology. I am particularly interested
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Personality Dynamics Through the Lens of Cognitive Science
With the goal of advancing a cognitive neuroscience of personality dynamics, leading researchers from the United States and Europe gathered in Trieste, Italy on July 10, 2012 to present cutting-edge findings on the neural and
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Families cling to hope of autism ‘recovery’
Los Angeles Times: In 1987, Ivar Lovaas, a charismatic UCLA psychology professor, published what remains the most famous study on the treatment of autism. Lovaas had broken down the basic skills of life into thousands
