Amazing Brain Webinar Series, Part IV: Nicotine and Cortical Development

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
12:00 pm EDT - 1:00 pm EDT
Location: Webinar

This webinar is Part IV of The Amazing Brain Webinar Series: Select Topics in Neuroscience and Child Development for the Clinician. It is being jointly sponsored with the Yale School of Medicine, Section of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics. For more information about the webinar series, click here.

CME/CEUs will be availabe. Click here to learn more.

Speaker: Marina Picciotto, PhD

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Session Description:
The goal of this presentation is to understand how human and animal studies can provide convergent information on biological consequences of environmental tobacco exposure during development.

Goals and Objectives:
1) To understand the molecular targets for nicotine in the brain.
2) To identify circuits vulnerable to developmental nicotine exposure.