Faculty Talks will occur monthly on Thursday afternoons 4:30-6 PM

Unless otherwise noted, talks take place at the Penn Law School, Silverman Hall, 3400 Chestnut St., at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

October 6, 2011 – Charles A. Nelson, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School and Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research, Children's Hospital Boston
Title: The Effects of Early Psychosocial Adversity on Brain and Behavioral Development
Location: Golkin Room, Houston Hall (3417 Spruce St.)

November 3, 2011 – Michael L. Sachs, PhD, Professor, Interim Chair, Department of Kinesiology, Temple University
Title: Head Injury in Athletes: When Sports and Public Health Collide
Location: Room 245A, Silverman Hall (3400 Chestnut St.)

December 1, 2011 – Robert Whitaker, Author and Science Writer
Title: Rethinking Psychiatric Care: History, Science, and the Long-Term Effects of Psychotropic Medications
Location: Room 245A, Silverman Hall (3400 Chestnut St.)

February 2, 2012 – David F. Dinges, PhD, Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Chief of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology in the Department of Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Title: No Time to Sleep: Neurobehavioral and Societal Consequences of Sleep Loss from Life Style
Location: Room 240B, Silverman Hall (3400 Chestnut St.)

March 1, 2012 – Steven E. Hyman, MD, Director, Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University
Title: Psychopharmacology and the Developing Brain: From Neuroscience to Societal Implications
Location: Room 240B, Silverman Hall (3400 Chestnut St.)

April 5, 2012 – John Cacioppo, PhD, Tiffany & Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago and Director, Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
Title: The Hazards of Social Isolation
Location: Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall (3417 Spruce St.)

May 3, 2012 – Larry J. Young, PhD, William P. Timmie Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Division Chief, Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatric Disorders, Emory School of Medicine
Title: Neurobiology of Social Bonding: Implications for Autism and Society
Location: Room 240B, Silverman Hall (3400 Chestnut St.)