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SPRING CONFERENCE 2005: April 15-16, 2005
The Family and the Brain: An Integrated Circuit
The pace of scientific discovery and understanding erodes long-held conventional and partial notions of human development and behavior. Thanks to expanding knowledge of gene-environment interaction, the inaccuracy of the nature-nurture controversy has been exposed. The Cartesian dualism of mind and body perches on the brink of collapse.
In recognition of these changes, the Bowen Center presents The Family and the Brain: an Integrated Circuit. Distinguished guest speakers will address the knowledge of the social brain, development, attachment and physiological reactivity. Senior scholars of Bowen theory will frame each block and moderate the generous discussion time allotted for each subject. This conference, based on Bowen theory, provides a framework for and a demonstration of theory in action, allowing people from different disciplines to listen and to learn from one another under the integrating umbrella of Bowen theory.
Scientists from many disciplines contribute to the developing knowledge of the reciprocal nature of the interaction between physiology, behavior, and human relationships. Several leading scientists have been invited to present their work.
SPEAKERS
John Allman, PhD - California Institute of Technology
Dr. Allman's focus is on the evolutionary and ontogenetic development of the brain. He is engaged in several research efforts investigating evolutionary pressures and scaling relationships in mammalian brains, using computer-assisted imaging of living and fixed brains of modern species as well as subfossil and fossil samples of extinct species. He is also involved in research on the visual system of primates.
Sue Carter, PhD - University of Illinois-Chicago
Dr. Carter is an expert in the areas of affiliation and bonding. Her most recent work examines the neuropeptides oxytocin and vosopressin and the roles these hormones play in the modulation of social relationships. Her work spans from the molecular to the behavioral and includes studies in both rodents and humans.
Alison Fleming, PhD - University of Toronto
Dr. Fleming is a psychologist at the University of Toronto whose research has been focused on the psychobiology of parental behavior and its development. She has been particularly interested in early life effects on parenting. Among her many research publications is one titled, “Neurobiology of mother-infant interactions: experience and central nervous system plasticity across development and generations.” Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews,1999.
Mark Flinn, PhD - University of Missouri
Dr. Flinn's research interests span evolutionary human biology, child health and psychological development, family environment, glucocorticoid stress response, life history, integration of biological, psychological, and ethnographic methods. Current research investigates childhood stress, family relationships, and health in a Caribbean village.
Michael E. Kerr, MD - Director, The Bowen Center
Dr. Kerr is Director of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family and Editor of Family Systems: A Journal of Natural Systems Thinking in Psychiatry and the Sciences. His primary research interests have been the relationship of Bowen theory to evolutionary theory, the relationship of physical, emotional and social symptoms to family emotional process, and the process of differentiation in clinical work. Dr. Kerr recently completed production of a videotape lecture series on Bowen family systems theory and its applications.
Jaak Panksepp, PhD - Bowling Green University
Dr. Panksepp is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychobiology at Bowling Green State University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Ohio at Toledo, and currently with the Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Northwestern University. His current work is devoted to understanding the social-bonding and play mechanisms of the brain, and how they relate to childhood disorders such as ADHD. He is the author of over 300 scientific articles and is editor of The Textbook of Biological Psychiatry (Wiley, 2004).
Daniel V. Papero, PhD - Faculty, The Bowen Center
Dr. Papero has written numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of family systems theory and family psychotherapy and, in 1990, published a basic introduction to family systems, Bowen Family Systems Theory. He serves on the editorial board of Family Systems and of the Family Business Client and speaks widely on topics related to Bowen theory to professional groups throughout the country.
Stephen Porges, PhD - University of Illinois-Chicago
Dr. Porges is a Professor and the Director of the Brain-Body Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a developmental psychologist and neuroscientist who has been studying the relation between the nervous system and behavior for over thirty years. His interest in at-risk infants and children began early in his career. His “Polyvagal Theory,” published in the journal Psychophysiology in 1995, led to the discovery of an integrated neural system that regulates social engagement behaviors.
Stephen Suomi, PhD - National Institutes of Health
Dr. Suomi is Chief of the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health, Research Professor at the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Suomi has received international recognition for his research on biobehavioral development in primates. His present research focuses on: the interaction between genetic and environmental factors in shaping individual developmental trajectories, the issue
CONFERENCE
PART I
Welcome and Introduction - Robert J. Noone, PhD
The Neurobiology of Intuitive Decision Making
- John Allman, PhD
Discussion
PART II
Affective Neuroscience and the Social Brain -
Jaak Panksepp, PhD
Discussion
PART III
Evolution of Stress Response and the Social Brain - Mark Flinn, PhD
Discussion
Panel Discussion
PART IV
Introduction - Victoria Harrison, MA
Emotional Objectivity: Oxymoron or Possibility? - Michael E. Kerr, MD
Discussion
PART V
The Biology of Mothering: From Rat to Human and Back Again -
Alison Fleming, PhD
Discussion
Panel Discussion
PART VI
Introduction - Cynthia Larkby, PhD
Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Development - Sue Carter, PhD
Discussion
PART VII
The Role of Social Engagement in Attachment and Bonding: Insights from the Polyvagal Theory - Stephen Porges, PhD
Discussion
Panel Discussion
PART VIII
Presentation of the Caskie Research Award
- Ruth Riley Sagar, MA and Michael E. Kerr, MD
Introduction - Kathleen B. Kerr, MSN, MA
Gene Environment Interactions in a Family Context Among Rhesus Monkeys
Stephen J. Suomi, PhD
Discussion
PART IX
The Family as an Emotional Unit - Daniel V. Papero, PhD
Discussion
Panel Discussion
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