Retreat Topics and Invited Speakers
2008: Neurocognitive, Social and Emotional Development: Transitioning from Childhood to Adolescence
Ronald Dahl, University of
Tomáš Paus, University of Nottingham & McGill University
Lillian Hechtman,
Nathan Fox, University of Maryland
Mary Schneider, University of Wisconsin
Michael First, Columbia University
2004: Regularities and irRegularities in Regulation
J. Douglas Bremner, Emory University
Megan Gunnar, University of Minnesota
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University
2002: Behavioral Phenotypes in Developmental Disabilities
Mara Dierssen, L'Hospital de Llobregat, Barcelona
Elisabeth Dykens, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Hodapp, University of California, Los Angeles
David Mrazek, Mayo Clinic
2000: Recent Research in Developemental Psychobiology and Implications for Intervention
Elizabeth Bates, Center for Research in Language
Hi Fitzgerald, Michigan State University
Bill Greenough, University of Illinois
1998: You, Me, and We: Coming to Know Self and Others
Dorrey Fergazy, Emory University
Peter Hobson, University College London
Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Harvard University
1996: Impulsivity, Aggression and Violence: Biology Psychology and Intervention
Jay Kaplan, Emory University
Mark Cummings, University of West Virginia
Sheppard Kellam, Johns Hopkins University
1994: Gender Differences in Brain and Behavior
Jacque Eccles, University of Michigan
Roger Gorski, University of California Los Angeles
Christina Willims, Duke University
1992: The Developmental Effects of Early Traumatic Events
Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University
Robert Pynoos, University of California Los Angeles
Gail Goodman, State University of New York at Buffalo
1990: The Organizing Effects of Early Relationships
Thomas Anders, Brown University
Steven Suomi, National Institute of Health and Human Services
Everett Waters, State University of New York at Stony Brook
1988: Developmental Across the Lifespan: Genetic and Socioemotional Influences
George Valliant
Robert Ploman
David Pauls
1986: Social Factors in Early Developmental Psychopathology
Marion Radke-Yarrow
Judy Dunn
Felton Earls
1984: Biological Bases of Affective and Cognitive Development
Patricia Goldman-Rakic
Arnold Sameroff
Myron Hofer
This retreat resulted in publication of a special issue of Child Development entitled-: Developmental Psychology and the Neurosciences, L.S. Crnic and B.F. Pennington, Eds.
1982: Continuities and Discontinuities in Development
Jerome Kagan
Michael Rutter
William Greenough
This retreat resulted in a book entitled: Continuities and Discontinuities in Development, R. Emde and R. Harmon, Eds.
1980: Attachment and Affiliative Systems: Neurobiological and Psychobiological Aspects
Jim Sackett
Melvin Konner
Paula Timiras
This retreat resulted in a book entitled: Development of Attachment and Affiliative Systems.