The Bowen Center - Meetings - Spring Conference

The Family and the Brain: An Integrated Circuit returns for a second time to the Bowen Center’s conference schedule. The first conference on this topic in 2005 produced a dynamic two-day exchange among participants and brought the most current scientific knowledge to the discussion.

The upcoming 2012 conference promises to be equally dynamic and challenging. It brings a new group of scientists, and researchers and leaders in the study of family systems, to continue the exploration of the interplay of genes and the environment, behavioral neuroscience, neurobiology, evolutionary and developmental psychology, and family stress and child health.

As the pace of scientific discovery continues to accelerate in these areas, old established notions are falling. Alvin Toffler expressed it well when he said “Change is the process by which the future invades the present.”

The Family and the Brain: An Integrated Circuit provides us all with an opportunity to keep up with these changes and their implications. Audience and speakers alike are vital to the success of a conference like this. We invite you to come, participate, and contribute to making this exchange great!

Bruce Ellis, PhD
Effects of Fathers on Puberty and Sexual Behavior in Daughters: Establishing Causation
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Alison Fleming, PhD
Mothering, Reward, and Executive Function in Rat and Human Mothers
University of Toronto at Mississauga
Toronto, Canada

Mark Flinn, PhD
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO

Randall Frost, MDiv
Living Systems
Vancouver, Canada

Victoria Harrison, MA
Bowen theory and Regulation of Reactivity
Center for the Study of Natural Systems and the Family
Houston, TX
Faculty, The Bowen Center
Washington, DC

Michael Kerr, MD
The Family Stress Response
Director Emeritus, The Bowen Center
Washington, DC

Robert Noone, PhD
Family and Conceptualizing Individual Variation in Reactivity
Center for Family Consultation
Evanston, IL

Daniel Papero, PhD, MSW
Family Emotional Process and Development
Faculty, The Bowen Center
Washington, DC

Stephen Suomi, PhD
National Institute of Child Health and Development
Bethesda, MD

Elizabeth Skowron, PhD
Neurobiology of Relationship Processes in High-Risk Families
Pennsylania State University

Paul Whalen, PhD
Face to Face with the Emotional Brain
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH

SPRING CONFERENCE

The Family and the Brain:
An Integrated Circuit

April 14-15, 2012