A radiologist at Fairview-University Medical Center explains
how scanning works to students in the BioMed Camp
The Objective
To explore the feasibility of joining brain imaging and related technologies with behavioral science techniques to study electronic media effects and emotion in children and adolescents.
The Challenges
Neural Network
by Jeff Johnson
Biological & Medical Visuals
www.stewartartists.com
Child Development and Neuroscience
Charles A. Nelson and Floyd E. Bloom, Child Development, October 1997
Investing in our Future: A National Research Initiative for America's Children for the 21st Century U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy
Decade of the Brain Home Page
Library of Congress
The Participants
University of Minnesota
Fairview Hospital and Healthcare Services
Federal Agencies, Foundations, Institutes, and Professional Societies
Affective Computing: Research on Human Emotions
MIT Media Laboratory
The ChildTrauma Academy Baylor College of Medicine
MacArthur Foundation Health Program MacArthur Network
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development NICHD
National Institute of Mental Health NIMH
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS
National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education ECI
Society for Neuroscience SFN
Society for Research in Child Development SRCD
Articles, Interviews and Scholarship
What New Research on the Brain Tells Us about Our Youngest Children The White House Conference on Early Childhood Development and Learning
"STUDYING TELEVISION VIOLENCE: A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE 21st CENTURY" John Murray, Ph.D., Scholar-in-Residence, Mind Science Foundation, San Antonio, TX
"Violence and Childhood: How Persisting Fear Can Alter the Developing Child's Brain" Bruce Perry, M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
"New techniques allow scientists to `map' brain
" St. Paul Pioneer Press, Nov. 9, 1997
"Parallel Memories: Putting Emotions Back Into The Brain"A Talk With Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D., New York University
LeDoux Lab: Emotion, Memory and the Brain New York University
"Neuroanatomical Correlates of Positive and Negative Emotion" University of Wisconsin
Program Coordinators
David Walsh, Ph.D.
Executive Director
National Institute on Media and the Family
2450 Riverside Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Phone: 612-672-4150
FAX: 612-672-4113
