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30th APS Annual Convention

How Neuroscience Can Contribute to Solving Societal Problems

Sunday, May 27, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · General

Neuroscience advances our knowledge about the working of the brain. Whereas the study of the brain originally focused on applications in the medical and psychiatric realm, neuroscience is now focusing on a wide variety of societal problems. This symposium addresses the potential of neuroscience in solving important problems in society.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Welmer MolenmakerChair
    Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition
  • Welmer MolenmakerChair
    Leiden University
  • Mirre StallenCoChair
    Leiden University

Presentations

  1. Neuroscientific Approaches to Understanding and Reducing the Academic Income-Achievement GapAllyson Mackey
  2. The Joint Effects of Exposure to Early Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Parental Depression on Children’s Stress Physiology and Brain DevelopmentEmily Merz
  3. Understanding Risky Social Contexts: Increasing and Decreasing Human Risk ToleranceKim Fairley
  4. Incentives in the Brain: The Effect of Incentives on the Intrinsic Motivation to CooperateMirre Stallen