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<div align="center"><b>The UCSD Department of Cognitive Science is
pleased to announce a proudly presents a talk by<br>
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<font size=5>Terry Jernigan Ph.D.<br>
</font>Department of Psychiatry, UCSD<br><br>
Wednesday January 23, 2008 at 12pm<br>
Cognitive Science Building, room 003<br><br>
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<font size=5>"Structural imaging reveals neurobiological responses
to experience and other environmental factors"<br>
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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.<br>
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