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Concourse Level of Hilton 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. The recently publicized changes in brain anatomy in early adolescence are part of a series of dramatic growth patterns in brain that relate to development of thinking, learning, and emotion. The two panelists, experts in education, developmental science, and neuroscience, discuss how children and adolescents learn and develop through acting in their everyday worlds and how those experiences shape brain development and are shaped by it. New findings of cycles of growth seem to link changes in cognition and emotion with neuroanatomical changes in brain. Groundbreaking techniques for imaging the brain indicate both common developmental changes across people and distinct pathways for behavioral problems, such as learning disabilities or psychopathology.