Exploring the Teenage Brain
Kirstie Whitaker
10.6084/m9.figshare.4772347.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Exploring_the_Teenage_Brain/4772347
<div><div><div><div><div><p>Dr
Kirstie Whitaker will take you on a journey "under the hood" to learn
how researchers in Cambridge (and around the world) are studying the
teenage brain. She will discuss what we can (and can not!) learn from
brain scans in understanding this sensitive period of brain development.</p>
<p>Dr Kirstie Whitaker is a postdoctoral researcher in the Brain Mapping
Unit of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
She is a 2016/17 Mozilla Fellow for Science and a passionate advocate
for reproducible neuroimaging research. Dr Whitaker received her PhD in
Neuroscience in 2012 from the University of California at Berkeley,
funded by a Fulbright scholarship. She is the founder and lead developer
of the STEMM Role Models project (<a href="http://www.stemmrolemodels.com">www.stemmrolemodels.com</a>)
that seeks to ensure conference organisers are able to invite the most
exciting and diverse speakers to their event. Her personal website is <a href="http://www.kirstiewhitaker.com">www.kirstiewhitaker.com</a> and she tweets @kirstie_j.</p>
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2017-03-21 17:54:20
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teenage
brain
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development
cambridge science festival
Neuroscience