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DESCRIPTION:\nPlease note that the lecture has been cancelled. Thank you.\n
 \n\nCharting Cortical Axes of Plasticity and Environmental Sensitivity: Fr
 om Animal Critical Periods to Human Development\n\nAbstract: The human cer
 ebral cortex exhibits a multi-decade maturational time course during which
  it retains an innate capacity for environment-driven plasticity. Elucidat
 ing how plasticity is refined in the cortex over time is foundational to u
 nderstanding when the youth brain will be most vulnerable to negative envi
 ronments—as well as most amenable to positive environments capable of supp
 orting healthy development and fostering resiliency. Yet\, it remains uncl
 ear precisely how plasticity unfolds in the child and adolescent brain\, i
 n part due to the challenge of studying developmental plasticity in vivo. 
 In this talk\, I will describe how multi-modal MRI can be harnessed to stu
 dy functional and neurobiological hallmarks of critical period plasticity 
 that have been identified in animal research\, including age-related chang
 es in intrinsic activity\, thalamocortical connectivity\, and intracortica
 l myelination. I will then demonstrate that developmental refinements in i
 maging correlates of critical period neurobiology progress along a sensori
 motor-to-association axis across cortical regions and a deep-to-superficia
 l axis across cortical layers. Next\, I will provide evidence that the org
 anization of developmental plasticity along these cortical axes influences
  when and where socioeconomic environmental influences become embedded in 
 the brain. The talk will conclude by considering how progress in studying 
 developmental plasticity may help to inform the type and timing of environ
 mental enrichment interventions for youth at risk for psychopathology.\n\n
 Valerie Sydnor\n\nPostdoc\, University of Pittsburgh\n\n\n\nValerie Sydnor
  is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh working in the 
 Laboratory of Neurocognitive Development with Beatriz Luna. Valerie comple
 ted her undergraduate degree in Health and Human Biology at Brown Universi
 ty and received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvani
 a. Her research program investigates when during development different are
 as of the human cortex are most plastic—and therefore most sensitive to en
 vironmental exposures that confer either vulnerability or resiliency to ps
 ychopathology. Thus far in her research career\, Valerie has published 48 
 peer-reviewed articles (13 first-author) and received continuous external 
 funding to support her work over an 8-year period. Outside of the lab\, Va
 lerie is an avid runner as well as an avid consumer of fantasy novels\, su
 nshine\, and donuts.\n
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Special BIC Lecture: Charting Cortical Axes of Plastici
 ty and Environmental Sensitivity: From Animal Critical Periods to Human De
 velopment
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