Dr. Dale Stack, Concordia University

The Dynamics of the Parent-Child Relationship: Emotional competence as a key skill-set in mitigating adversity and fostering wellbeing

Dr. John Pearce, Cardiff University

A New Look at an Old Theory 

Co-Sponsored with the Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology

Dr. Leah Sommerville, Harvard University

Mechanisms of Socioemotional and Cognitive Development Through Adolescence 

Co-Sponsored with the Center for Research in Human Development

Dr. Dolores Malaspina, New York University

The nature-nurture puzzle: Risk and protective factors in mental illness

Low-Beer memorial lecture co-hosted with Ami Quebec

Dr. Klaus Miczek, Tufts University

Escalated Agression in Animal Models: Shedding New Light on Mesocorticolimbic Circuits

Co-sponsored with the Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology

Dr. Caroline Palmer, McGill University

Temporal coordination in musical groups: Scaling up from smaller models

Dr. Paul Harris, Harvard University

Why do children doubt magic and believe in the miraculous?

Co-Sponsored with the Center for Research in Human Development

Dr. Sabine Wilhelm, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University

Imagined Ugliness, the Nature and Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder 

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Clinical Research in Health

Dr. Yasmin Hurd, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Translating Cannabis: Insights into the Neurobiology of Addiction and its Therapeutic Potential

Sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation