# Event Details - **Event Name**: Feindel Brain & Mind Series: Charting cortical axes - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Mon, 27 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Charting cortical axes of plasticity and environmental sensitivity: From animal critical periods to human development - Valerie SydnorAbout this EventCharting cortical axes of plasticity and environmental sensitivity: From animal critical periods to human developmentAbstract: The human cortex exhibits a multi-decade maturational time course during which it retains an innate capacity for environment-driven plasticity. Elucidating how plasticity is refined in the cortex over time is foundational to understanding when the youth brain is most vulnerable to negative environments—and most amenable to positive environments that can promote healthy development and resiliency. Yet, it remains unclear precisely how plasticity unfolds in the child and adolescent brain, in part due to the challenge of studying developmental plasticity in vivo. In this talk, I will describe how multi-modal MRI can be harnessed to study hallmarks of critical period plasticity that have been identified in animal research, including age-related changes in intrinsic activity, thalamocortical connectivity, and cortical myelination. I will then demonstrate that developmental refinements in imaging correlates of critical period neurobiology progress along a sensorimotor-to-association axis across cortical regions, a deep-to-superficial axis across cortical layers, and a posterior-to-anterior axis in the hippocampus. Next, I will provide evidence that the organization of developmental programs along these cortical axes influences when and where socioeconomic environmental influences become embedded in the brain. The talk will conclude by considering how progress in studying developmental plasticity may help to inform the type and timing of environmental enrichment interventions for youth at risk for psychopathology.Bio: Dr. Valerie Sydnor is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh working in the Laboratory of Neurocognitive Development. Valerie completed her undergraduate degree in Health and Human Biology at Brown University and received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research program investigates when during development different areas of the human cortex are most plastic—and therefore most sensitive to environmental exposures that confer either vulnerability or resiliency to psychopathology. To pursue this research, she integrates environmental and behavioral phenotyping with multi-modal neuroimaging, including structural, functional, diffusion, and neurochemical imaging acquired at 3T and 7T. Valerie has published 50 peer-reviewed articles (13 as first author), received 8 years of continuous external funding to support her work, and was recently named a Rising Star of Neuroscience by The Transmitter. Outside of the lab, Valerie is an avid runner as well as an avid consumer of fantasy novels, sunshine, and donuts.Unable to attend in person? 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