with
Bryan Kolb, University of Lethridge
Although once considered a static organ, the
brain continually rewires its structure and function to
adapt to very different environmental, cultural, and developmental
conditions. Consider, for example, the very different demands
on the brain of an airline pilot, lawyer, musician, and
pipe fitter. Each has a complex set of skills that require
different brain circuits for their performance. Brain changes
occur in response to an amazing array of factors including
thoughts, drugs, hormones, prenatal events, injury and disease.
This talk will examine the latest research on the “rules”
that govern these experience-driven changes and how this
understanding can be used to design better treatments and
public policies for child development, brain injury, addiction
and ageing.
Dr. Bryan Kolb is Acting Chair of the Department
of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge and Associate
Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
program in the Experience-Based Brain Development program.
His specialty is the cerebral cortex and how its organization
changes in response to a wide range of experiential factors
including hormones, experience, stress, drugs, learning,
and injury, and how these changes are related to behaviour.
Author of five books and about 300 articles and chapters,
he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Killam
Fellow of the Canada Council.
Organized by: The Partnership Group for Science and Engineering
(PAGSE)
Sponsored by:
--the Speaker of the Senate
--the Speaker of the House of Commons
--Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Date: Thursday May 8, 2008 from 7:30 am - 9:00 am
Place: Room 200, West Block, Parliament Hill
Cost: No charge to Members of the House of Commons, Senators
and Media. All others $15
Registration: Please register by contacting Donna Boag,
PAGSE Coordinator: 613-991-6369, pagse@rsc.ca
Registration Deadline: Monday May 5th
