Events

Penn graduate students, postdocs, and RAs are invited to lunch with Penn faculty. Not a talk – they’ll take 10 minutes to introduce their work, then it’s pure conversation. Sandwiches and drinks served.   Ted Brodkin, Professor of Psychiatry: Genes for social behavior   Location: 200 Goddard Labs

2018-2019 Center for Neuroscience and Society (CNS) Talk Series: Drugs, the Brain and Society   Nancy D. Campbell, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   Making addiction a brain disease: A social history of addiction neuroscience   Location: Claudia Cohen Hall 402, 249 South 36th Street   A discussion and reception will follow […]

Leah Somerville Department of Psychology Harvard University   Using value to guide goal directed behavior: Neurodevelopmental mechanisms & behavioral consequences   My lab’s research aims to reveal how neurodevelopmentally-mediated shifts in circuit-level brain function contribute to changes in motivated, emotional, and social behavior during adolescence. My talk will feature new work that reveals how the adolescent […]