December 1, 2017
The ISDP Office is moving from Texas to New Jersey! For more information about the Society, please contact our NEW Managing Director, Joan Oefner.
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP)
297 Kinderkamack Road, Suite 348
Oradell, NJ 07649 USA
Tel: 1-800-947-1960 Fax: 1-201-322-1818
Office of the Managing Director:
Joan Oefner, Managing Director
Regensburg, Germany
Tel. +49 (0) 171-1049-181 FaceTime: +49 (0) 171-1049-181
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November 25, 2017
Membership dues invoices have been sent by email. Please Renew your ISDP Membership through 2018 TODAY!
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November 21, 2017
Join us next year in beautiful San Diego! October 31 – November 2, 2018 Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, California, USA, immediately preceding Neuroscience 2018, SfN’s 48th annual meeting, November 3-7, 2018 in San Diego. More information coming soon!
October 31, 2017
The Federation for Brain and Behavioral Sciences (FABBS), of which ISDP is a participating organization, publishes an on-line journal called Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences (PIBBS). The current issue highlights the work of some of ISDP’s promising young members. Authors were asked to write about current issues in their field of research and how the science can be used to inform policy decisions in Washington. The response from ISDP and other developmental bio-behavioral scientists was so great that there is a second issue forthcoming which will include more ISDP members. http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/bbsa/current
October 31, 2017
FABBS briefing invitation HERE.
July 31, 2017
Developmental Psychobiology: Call for Submissions
This is an open call for submissions for a special issue to mark the 50th anniversary of Developmental Psychobiology. This special issue will celebrate both the past and future of the field, and will be co-edited by Dr. Dima Amso and Dr. Mark Blumberg. We invite submissions that address topics across a wide range of topics relevant to the mechanisms and processes of typical and atypical development in human and non-human animals, including (but not limited to) behavior and cognition, genetic regulation and epigenetic modification, social development, socioeconomic status, motor development, learning and memory, attention, executive function, preterm birth, early-life stress, maternal behavior, communication, and sleep. Acceptable articles may review recent empirical work, conceptual advances, novel models of developmental process, innovative methods, or future directions. We also welcome articles that consider the contributions of developmental psychobiology to advances in neuroscience, public policy, and child health. Interested authors should submit an abstract (250 words) to the editors that summarizes the proposed aims and content of the review. From these abstracts, articles will be selected for full submission. The proposal should also indicate whether the submission is meant to be a retrospective or prospective review. In addition, the editors will consider reviews on hot topics that would be suitable for invited commentaries. Abstracts must be submitted by October 1, 2017, to the Developmental Psychobiology editorial office ([email protected]).
June 29, 2017
Michele R. Brumley, Ph.D., is the new Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Psychobiology and the flagship journal of ISDP is seeking submissions.
Find out more HERE.
February 2, 2017
Call for Applications 2017: Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program
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Deadline for submission: March 31, 2017
The Jacobs Foundation is pleased to announce the 2017 call for applications for its Research Fellowship Program.
The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is an internationally open, competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers focusing on child and youth development.
Fellowships are awarded to the most highly talented and innovative early- and mid-career researchers working on child and youth development. Funds are awarded directly to the fellow’s institution and may be used over a three-year period to partially cover the fellow’s salary and for any activity supporting the fellow’s research, such as assistant salaries, equipment, technical assistance, professional travel, or trainee support.
Scholars who engage in interdisciplinary work on individual development and learning of children and youth, and who seek to combine genetic, epigenetic, neurobiological, behavioral and social levels of analysis, are particularly encouraged to apply.
For further information and to submit an online application, please visit: Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowships
Jacobs Foundation
Seefeldquai 17, P.O. Box
CH-8034 Zurich
+41 44 388 61 23
[email protected]
www.jacobsfoundation.org
February 1, 2017
Joint Statement regarding President Trump’s executive order “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States”
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| Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, President Karen Adolph, Past President Daphne Maurer, Past President Lisa Oakes, President Elect Roberta Golinkoff, Treasurer |
David Uttal, President Amanda Woodward, Past President Paul Lansley Harris, President Elect David Sobel, Treasurer |
Nathan Fox, President April Ronca, Past President Rachel Barr, President Elect |
The FABBS Foundation article goes on to say that Dr. Bethany Reeb-Sutherland’s research examines individual differences in socio-emotional behavior and the biological and environmental factors that influence such development. She has made major contributions to our understanding of the development of anxiety and various behavioral and neural mechanisms which contribute to this disorder as well as furthering our understanding of the mechanisms involved in the development of heterogeneity in social behavior during infancy and toddlerhood.
One area of Dr. Reeb-Sutherland’s research focuses on risk factors associated with the development of anxiety and the moderating role of attention processes. To address this issue, she examined measures of attention both at the neurophysiological (i.e., EEG, ERP) and behavioral levels and found that attention processes are heightened only in behaviorally inhibited adolescents with a history of anxiety when stimuli are either novel or threatening. These biases in attention are apparent earlier during both childhood and even infancy long before the manifestation of anxiety suggesting that attention processes especially those related to the processing of novel or threatening stimuli may provide insight into the etiology of anxiety.
Dr. Reeb-Sutherland’s most recent line of research focuses on furthering our understanding of underlying mechanisms of heterogeneity in infant social behavior and associated neural correlates. To better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in these associative learning processes, she examined the modulatory effect of social stimuli on learning processes in human infants during the first months of life as well as the relation between heterogeneity in early associative learning and the development of later social behavior. Results suggest that infants who more readily detect contingencies and learn the relations between stimuli in their environment display higher levels of social skill across the first year of life. Preliminary findings also suggest that this measure continues to predict language abilities into the second year of life and that these measures are moderated by mother-infant relations. Understanding more about the role of social context on learning and memory processes during early infancy may be useful in developing biomarkers for neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly those associated with social deficits such as autism spectrum disorder and Fragile X.
Dr. Reeb-Sutherland’s research has been featured in Science News and in her university’s news magazine. She has also made a number of community presentations, including to the Children’s Trust Family Expo. She also engages and trains many under-represented individuals in the STEM fields at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Currently 90% of her undergraduate research assistants are Hispanic females, and two of three graduate students are Hispanic females.
Dr. Reeb-Sutherland is an assistant professor of psychology at Florida International University. She completed a fellowship at the Child Development Laboratory at the University of Maryland after earning her doctorate in psychology at the University of New Mexico.
To review all of the FABBS Foundation 2015 Early Career Impact Award winners, visit http://www.fabbs.org/honoring-our-scientists/impact-award-winners/
December 12, 2016
A new collection of articles that will be of interest to many ISDP members has just been published by WIREs Cognitive Science. The collection, entitled “How We Develop — Developmental Systems and the Emergence of Complex Behaviors,” is co-edited by Mark Blumberg, John Spencer, and David Shenk. It comprises 25 highly readable essays on a variety of topics organized around the broad theme of developmental systems theory. The contributors include Bob Lickliter, Joan Stiles, Karen Adolph, David Moore, Patrick Bateson, Terry Jernigan, Scott Gilbert, Charles Nelson, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Richard Aslin, Jana Iverson, Clancy Blair, and Susan Goldin-Meadow. The entire collection is freely available for download here.
December 4, 2016
A Special Issue on the Adolescent Brain was published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. In addition to several reviews on emerging areas and a series of commentaries, there are separate reviews of the human and laboratory animal literatures for each of 12 topics within the broad field of adolescent neurodevelopment. Here is the link: