Child-Brain Development Experts to Present Latest Research at UAB April 22

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host experts in child-brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders during the 2010 Neurodevelopment/Simpson-Ramsey Symposium Thursday, April 22 from at 7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the UAB Hill University Center Alumni Auditorium, 1400 University Blvd.

March 1, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will host experts in child-brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders during the 2010 Neurodevelopment/Simpson-Ramsey Symposium Thursday, April 22 from at 7:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the UAB Hill University Center Alumni Auditorium, 1400 University Blvd.

Guest speakers will include Alcino Silva, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology at UCLA, and Peter Mundy, Ph.D., a developmental and clinical psychologist at the University of California, Davis.

This year the symposium will be held in conjunction with the Glenwood Endowed Lecture, a collaboration between the UAB School of Public Health and Glenwood Inc. that focuses on behavioral health disorders such as autism.

The Glenwood lecturer will be Craig Newschaffer, Ph.D., professor and chair of Drexel University Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Newschaffer will present his lecture titled "Will Epidemiology Help Us Find the Causes of Autism?" Wednesday, April 21 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Sponsors for the event are the UAB School of Education, UAB Sparks Clinics, UAB Civitan International Research Center, UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center and UAB departments of Psychology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Pathology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology and the Department of Pediatrics Program in Translational Research in Normal and Disordered Development.

The symposium is free. The fee for continuing-education certificates is $25. A complete list of speakers, the conference agenda and registration is online at www.uab.edu/cnc. The deadline for abstracts is Wednesday, March 31. For more details, contact Rita Cowell at rcowell@uab.edu.

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