I have two favorite parts of any INS conference: The agora of poster sessions and The Birch Lecture (named for Herbert Birch). The Benton and - now - the Satz Awards are nostalgic reminders. Finally, Plenary C looks interesting: "Generation of New Hippocampal Neurons in the Adult Brain: Implications for Mental Health", as does Invited Symposium 3: "Global Neuroscience: Impact of Culture, Resources, and Education". I have always tracked the The Birch Lecture. Herbert G. Birch was, from all accounts, a wonderful person and an extraordinary teacher. When I was an undergraduate student, I received mentoring in developmental biopsychology from several of his colleagues and students (Susan Fleischer, Tina Moreau, and Gerald Turkewitz). I worked as a student with rat models of perinatal malnutrition, which was a methodological offshoot of his long interest in malnutrition and poverty. My MA thesis was based on his groundbreaking work exploring neonatal lateralization. He...
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