The Role of Psychotherapy in the Age of Neuroscience and Genes, Panel discussion of the role of psychotherapy in the age of neuroscience and neuropsychopharmacology.

Dr. Paul Greengard, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at Rockefeller University, talks about his life and  career with his former student Dr. Eric Nestler, Professor and Chair of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Greengard won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the signaling pathways in the nervous system. He and his colleagues showed nerve cells communicate through either fast or slow synaptic transmission. Dr. Greengard discusses their discoveries and the resistance and skepticism they faced when they published the results.

Research has demonstrated that brain development is much more protracted than previously thought, continuing in some regions throughout adolescence and early adulthood. Some parts of the brain undergo a period of reorganisation during the teenage years, both in terms of structure, function and related behaviour. These new insights into neurocognitive development suggest that adolescence is a period of profound change and opportunity.

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms.