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ISDP 2006 Conference

39th Annual Meeting of the
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
October 11-14th, Atlanta, Georgia

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Award Winners 2006

The 2006 meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) was held in Atlanta, Georgia from October 11th through the 14th.

This year's conference featured the Presidential Symposium, three invited symposia, and the invited Wiley address. The Presidential Symposium includes Celia Moore (U-Mass Boston) and Skip Spear (Binghamton). One NICHD symposium (Thursday morning) is entitled, "Alcohol and Development: Beyond FAS", and the second (Friday morning) is entitled, "Update on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome." The Sackler symposium (Saturday morning) is entitled, "Autism: Hints from the Clinic and the Lab."

George Michel’s Presidential Address is entitled "A developmental psychobiological approach to the development of infant handedness." The John Wiley Distinguished Speaker is Fernando Nottebohm, Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor and head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior at Rockefeller University, NY. His talk is entitled, “The relation between neuronal replacement and learning.”