Welcome to BrainLENS
LENS (Laboratory for Educational NeuroScience) focuses on developmental cognitive neuroscience research with the goal of maximizing children’s potential to succeed in life. In particular, we use the latest brain imaging techniques, genetic measures, and computational approaches to examine the process of learning, including acquisition of skills such as reading, socio-emotional processing, motivation and resilience. We investigate typical developing children as well as those with disabilities and with exceptional abilities.
Selected Media Coverage
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12/21/10 KGO AM 810 radio show
Story on a study published in PNAS 2011
More information about the UCSF National Dyslexia Center
We are pleased to announce that The UCSF National Dyslexia Center kicked off in late 2012! The center incorporates an interdisciplinary team of renowned scientists and educators from the UCSF Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Psychiatry and the Memory and Aging Center (MAC) in Neurology, and the Charles Armstrong School (CAS), a specialized school for dyslexic learners in Belmont, CA. The leadership team constitutes co-Directors Professors Robert Hendren, Chair of the Division of Adolescent Psychiatry and Bruce Miller, Director of MAC, as well as Professors Fumiko Hoeft (Director of Laboratory for Educational Neuroscience [BrainLENS]) and Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini (neurologist and neuroscientist at MAC); and Board Chair Steve Carnevale, former Chair and President of the CAS Board and Claudia Koochek, Principal of CAS.
The aim of the center is to be a “one-stop shop” to assess and support those with learning differences in particular dyslexia, in both their difficulties and talents. We offer a state-of-the-art neuroscientific assessment that integrates genetic testing, brain imaging and assessments of cognition, behavior and environment.
For more information regarding the center, contact Prof. Fumiko Hoeft, at Fumiko.Hoeft@UCSF.edu or (415) 476-9861. For more information and questions regarding the Phenotyping Project, and to enroll, contact Ms. Chelsea Myers, at Chelsea.Myers@UCSF.edu or (415) 476-9861.
