The social brain meets the reactive genome: neuroscience, epigenetics and the new social biology

How biology became social, and what it means for social theory

In this paper I first offer a systematic outline of a series of conceptual novelties in the life-sciences that have favoured, over the last three decades, the emergence of a more social view of biology. I focus in particular on three areas of investigation: (1) technical changes in evolutionary literature that have provoked a rethinking of the possibility of altruism, morality and prosocial beh...

P21: The Role of Educational Neuroscience on Talent Management

Educational neuroscience or mind, brain, and education science was born in the past two decades from the mega of research findings of neuroscience, education, and psychology. These finding develop our understandings about teaching and learning. Our knowledge about different areas of the brain and their activity in the learning and memory process, effect of the different areas in training and sp...

The Prospects of Epigenetics in Neuroscience

Genetic and Epigenetic landscape of Germline Stem Cells

Elucidating the critical epigenetics events involved in differentiation and reprogramming of cells to primordial germ cells (PGCs) is among the interesting issues in stem cell research. Here, I will talk about critical transcription factors and global hypomethylation in development of germ cells. Evidence strongly suggests that the earliest PGCs emerging in the E7.25 mouse embryo epiblast have...

O 20: The Role of Neuroinflammation in Epilepsy: A New Target for Treatment

Despite progress in pharmacological and surgical treatments of epilepsy, little is known about the processes that a healthy brain is rendered epileptic after seizure occurrence. Growing evidence supports the involvement of inflammatory processes, both the adaptive immunity and systemic inflammatory response, in induction of individual seizures as well as in the epileptogenesis. Clinical and exp...