The Wired Child: How 21st Century Technology Affects the Brain

Four Thursdays

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September 15, 2011 - October 13, 2011

Sackler Educational Laboratory
Enter at 77th Street

Ticket Info

$240

This special course for adults will focus on the use of technology by children and adolescents, exploring issues important to parents—and everyone else—in this wired age. Learn about fundamental and advanced brain science and the physiological impacts of extensive personal use of current technologies.

Guest lecturers will include Psychology Today expert Dr. Pamela Rutledge, award-winning developmental psychologist Dr. Douglas Gentile, and Dr. Kirk Erickson, who will speak on the brain and video games.

The Museum greatly acknowledges The Mortimer D. Sackler Foundation, Inc. for its support to establish The Sackler Brain Bench, part of the Museum’s Sackler Educational Laboratory, in the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, offering ongoing programs and resources for adults, teachers, and students to illuminate the extraordinary workings of the human brain.