[lingtalks] Terry Jernigan talk, 1/23/08 12pm

[Steven Ford]

The UCSD Department of Cognitive Science is pleased to announce a proudly 
presents a talk by

Terry Jernigan Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, UCSD

Wednesday January 23, 2008 at 12pm
Cognitive Science Building, room 003


"Structural imaging reveals neurobiological responses to experience and 
other environmental factors"

When MR imaging was first applied in brain research, it was thought that 
brain structure developed rapidly in early childhood and was relatively 
stable across several decades of life, until finally the involutional 
changes of old age occurred. But in the first systematic studies of healthy 
individuals across the age-range, MRI revealed an unsuspected degree of 
dynamic change in brain tissues. Some of the effects observed in subsequent 
structural imaging studies probably arise from neuroadaptive alterations in 
response to pathogens, drugs, and experience. These observations have 
changed the way we view human brain structure, and the way we interpret the 
effects observed with structural imaging modalities. This talk will review 
some of these findings and will focus on new imaging studies of brain 
maturation that may shed light on biological responses to experience within 
developing neural systems of children.
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