Biography

Nick Allen is the Ann Swindells Professor of Clinical Psychology and the Director of the Center for Digital Mental Health at the University of Oregon. Professor Allen is a leading researcher in the area of adolescent mental health, especially for his work on the relationship between biological and interpersonal aspects of adolescent development and risk for depression. He has especially focused on how family interactions and other aspects of the child’s environment that have been shown to increase risk for mental health problems (e.g., stress, abuse, socio-economic disadvantage) influence the child or adolescent’s emotional functioning and the development of the biological systems that undergird these emotions – especially adolescent brain development and sleep. Recently his work has included automatic assessment of behavior via mobile and wearable devices in order to predict mental health states and provide adaptive interventions. The overall aim of this work is to not only shed light on the underlying causes of mental health and ill-health during adolesence, but also to inform innovative approaches to early intervention and prevention by utilizing this knowledge to generate and test novel, developmentally-targeted clinical and public health interventions.

Daniel Ansari received his PhD from University College London in 2003. Presently, he is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology and the Brain & Mind Institute at Western University, Canada where he heads the Numerical Cognition Laboratory (www.numericalcognition.org). Ansari and his team explore the developmental trajectory underlying both the typical and atypical development of numerical and mathematical skills, using both behavioral and neuroimaging methods. Ansari has received early career awards from the Society of Research in Child Development, the American Psychological Association as well as the Government of Ontario. In 2014, Ansari was named as a member of the inaugural cohort of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2015 he received the E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

2-002 - Education Neuroscience: Limitations and Opportunities

Session Type: Invited SRCD Salon

Sub Unit

• Invited Program on Neuroscience & Child Development

Moderator

• Nicholas B. Allen, University of Oregon

Panelists

• Bruce D. McCandliss, Stanford University

• Daniel Ansari, The University of Western Ontario, Canada