Baby Brains Around the World Project: An International On-Line Conference

The 3rd UK Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium: Early Brain-Behaviour Relationships and Prognostic Indicators will take place at the UCL Institute of Child Health, London on 23-27 April 2012. As well as standard registration it is now possible to register for ON-LINE ONLY access to the conference. The on-line Baby Brains project aims to widen communication & networking opportunities as far as possible for academics and practitioners across the globe interested in early human cognition and its developmental pathways.

Lectures will be filmed and broadcast on the secure conference website remaining accessible until 4 June 2012. On-line delegates will also have electronic access to the lecture hand-outs, scientific posters, interactive delegate discussion forums, information from our sponsors and the conference proceedings published in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.

Faculty

- Professor Jocelyne Bachevalier, Emory University, USA

- Professor Tanya Byron, Edge Hill University, UK

- Professor Helen Cross, UCL Institute of Child Health, UK

- Dr Naomi Dale, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, UK

- Dr. Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM-CEA, France

- Professor Adele Diamond, The University of British Columbia, Canada

- Professor Christopher Gillberg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

- Professor Paavo Leppanen, University of Jyvaskla, Finland,

- Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

- Professor Mark Johnson, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

- Professor Neil Marlow, University College London, UK

- Dr Debra Mills, Bangor University, UK

- Professor Charles A. Nelson, Harvard Medical School, USA

Call for Abstracts for Posters

Abstracts on any aspect of paediatric neuropsychology will be considered.

All accepted abstracts will be published in a supplement of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology in April 2012 as part of the proceedings.

All posters will be displayed electronically in JPEG format on the conference website (from on-line only & London attendees). Delegates who register to attend the London conference in person will also display their posters on poster boards at the venue.

Each author may submit any number of abstracts.

Abstract submission deadline is Monday 9 January 2012

Early Bird On-line only delegate fee £199

(until 16 January 2012)

For further details visit:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/neuropsych/InternationalSymposia

or contact the ICH Events Office, Telephone: +44 (0)20 7905 2135 or +44 (0)20 7813 8394, email [email protected]

Programme Directors: Dr Michelle de Haan and Dr Peter Rankin