Speaker: Dr Charles Nelson, Professor of Paediatrics and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, Director of Research in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital

Chair: Dr. Ted Barker, Reader in Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, King's College London

In this talk, Dr. Charles Nelson will begin by providing a conceptual framework for experience-dependent development, followed by a high-level discussion of the effects of early adversity. He will focus on early life stress and profound neglect.