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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, PhD, FMedSci, FBA

Neuroscientist; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge; Leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group; Honorary Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London; Author, Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain (2018); Co-Author, “Development of a Gamified Cognitive Training App “Social Brain Train” to Enhance Adolescent Mental Health” (2022, Wellcome Open Research), “Navigating the Social Environment in Adolescence: The Role of Social Brain Development” (2021, Biological Psychiatry), “The Effects of Social Deprivation on Adolescent Development and Mental Health” (2020, Lancet Child and Adolescent Health), and The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education (2005)

Events

Teaching Social Brains

The Sheraton NY Times Square, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom  April 21-23, 2023

Final Keynote Address: Social Brains in Adolescence: Peers, Pressures, and a Pandemic

Learning How to Learn

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA  November 22-24, 2019

Keynote Address: The Secret Life of the Teen Brain

The Science of Learning

The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education