Anthony S. Bashir, Ph.D., Director, Academic Support Services and Disability Services Coordinator; Associate Professor, Department of Communication Disorders, Emerson College, Adjunct Faculty at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College.

Joyce F. Benenson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Educational and Counseling Psychology Department, McGill University, author of numerous articles on evidence that children and adolescents have internal models of peer interactions that are gender differentiated, and the influence of group size on children's competitive behavior

Gene J. Blatt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurobiology of Developmental Disorders Laboratory, Department of anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine; Research Team Member, Autism Research Consortium; Member, Autism Research Foundation

Leslie Brody, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Boston University; author of Gender, Emotion and the Family (1999)

Fay E. Brown, Ph.D., Director, Child and Adolescent Development Unit, and Project Director, Literacy Initiatives, James Comer School Development Program; Associate Research Scientist; Yale Child Study Center, Yale University

M. Beth Casey, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Lynch School of Education, Boston College; Committee Member, NCTM Early Childhood Education/Author panel; author of "Understanding Individual Differences in Spatial Ability within Females" (Developmental Review, 1996), and "Gender, Sex and Cognition" (Learning & Individual Differences, 1996)

Suzanne H. Corkin, Ph.D., Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Principal Investigator, MIT Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory

Thomas J. Cottle, Ph.D., Professor of Education, Boston University School of Education; sociologist and licensed clinical psychologist; author of more than 30 books, most recently: Mind Fields: Adolescent Consciousness in a Culture of Distraction (2001); At Peril: Stories of Injustice (2001);); Intimate Appraisals (2002); and the upcoming A Sense of Self

Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry; Directors of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, the NIMH-funded Wisconsin Center for Affective Science, the Center for Mind-Body Interaction, and the NIMH Training program in Emotion Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison; internationally known for his research on the neural substrates of emotion and emotional disorders

Marian C. Diamond, Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley; renowned international neuroscientist; and co-author of Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence (1998), Enriching Heredity (1988), and The Human Brain Coloring Book (1985)

Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology Department, Rutgers University; Leadership Team Vice Chair, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL); Vice President for Program, Association for Children of New Jersey; author of Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers (2002), and Emotionally Intelligent Parenting (2000)

Steven G. Feifer, Ed.S., NCSP, Neuropsychologist; school psychologist; speaker in the field of dyslexia; author of numerous articles and books on reading disorders in children, including The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders: Diagnosis & Intervention (2000) and The Neuropsychology of Written Language Disorders (2001)

David H. Feldman, Ph.D., Professor of Child Development, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University; expert on extreme giftedness and creativity; has appeared on NOVA, the Today Show, 48 Hours, In Search of Mind (PBS), and Future Watch (CNN); Member, Panel on National Policy for Gifted Education, U.S. Department of Education; author of Nature’s Gambit: Child Prodigies and the Development of Human Potential (1986); and co-editor with Howard Gardner of Building on Children’s Strengths: The Project Spectrum (1998)

Kurt W. Fischer, Ph.D., Charles Bigelow Professor; Director, Mind, Brain & Education Concentration, Harvard Graduate School of Education; co-author of The Construction of Self (1999) 

Mary Fowler, B.A., International lecturer on ADHD; leading national ADHD advocate, author of Maybe You Know My Teen: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Adolescent with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2001), and Maybe You Know My Kid: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (1990)

Albert M. Galaburda, M.D., Emily Fisher Landau Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Division of Behavioral Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; renowned researcher in the areas of developmental dyslexia and related learning disorders in children and adults, experimental developmental neuropathology, neurobiology of language, and cognitive neuroscience

Daniel T. Gilbert, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology; Chair, Program in Social Psychology; Faculty, Social Cognitive and Emotion Laboratory, Harvard University; co-editor of The Handbook of Social Psychology (4^th edition, 1998), and co-author of "Decisions and Revisions: The Affective Forcasting of Changeable Outcome," Journal on Personality and Social Psychology (2002)

Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN, Director, Institute of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Performance; Director, The East-West Science and Education Foundation; Clinical Professor of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine; renowned expert in executive deficit; author of The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind (2001), and The Executive Control Battery (2000)

Elena L. Grigorenko, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Yale Child Study Center and Department of Psychology, Yale University, co-author with Robert Sternberg on the book Intelligence, Heredity, and Environment (2001)

Raquel E. Gur, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Radiology, and Neurology, Neuropsychiatry Section, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Ruben C. Gur, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Radiology, and Neurology and Director, Brain Behavior Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., Child Psychiatrist; Professor, Harvard Medical School; Founder, Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health; Director, Life Coach Educational Consultants; author of several books on ADHD and attention, focus and stress, including The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy (2002), Worry: Hope and Help for a Common Condition (1998), Connect: 12 Vital Ties That Open Your Heart, Lengthen Your Life, and Deepen Your Soul (1999); and co-author of Driven to Distraction (1995)

Stephan Heckers, M.D., Assistant Director, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Neuroanatomist, Laboratory of Structural Neuroscience, McLean Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Specialist in neuroimaging, neuranatomy, and psychiatric neuroscience research

Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Harvard University; world-acclaimed expert in child development and temperament; author of numerous books including Three Seductive Ideas (1998) and co-author of Galen's Prophecy: Temperament in Human Behavior (1997)

Kenneth S. Kosik, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School: Director, Kosik Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology, Harvard Institutes of Medicine; Faculty Fellow, Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University 

Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; Associate Psychologist in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital; author of numerous books on visual cognition including Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate (1996), and Psychology: The Brain, the Person, the World (2000)

Bertha K. Madras, Ph.D., Professor of Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Project Director, "Changing Your Mind: Drugs in the Brain" funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and supported by The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., Director, Learning, Teaching and Development Unit, James Comer School Development Program; Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychology; Yale Child Study Center, Yale University

Charles A. Nelson, Ph.D., Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Child Psychology, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota; Chair, Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development; featured in the PBS program Frontline: Inside the Teen-Age Brain; and author of numerous articles on child development, memory, face/object recognition, including "The Development and Neural Bases of Face Recognition" (2001), and "Neural Plasticity and Human Development: The Role of Early Experience in Sculpting Memory Systems" (2000)

Mark J. Tramo, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Institute for Music and Brain Science, Massachusetts General Hospital; Faculty Fellow, Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, Harvard University; Faculty, Harvard-M.I.T. Speech and Hearing Sciences Program; researcher on biological basis of music, musician and composer

Janet R. Wozniak, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; expert on pediatric bipolar disorder; researcher in characteristics, course, and pharmacological treatment of juvenile onset bipolar disorder

J. Gail Armstrong-Hall, Ph.D., has 16 years of experience teaching science to middle school students. Recent publications include a self-help set of booklets on spatial skills entitled Help Your Child be Spatially Complete, Understanding and Practicing the Female Spatial Skills, Understanding and Practicing the Male Spatial Skills.

A. Lee Burch, Ph.D., AIA, CEFPI, partner of SBCM Architects, TX, architect who has explored brain-compatible learning environments for schools

Kimberly Carraway, M.Ed. President/Learning Specialist, The Carraway Center for Teaching and Learning, LLC; teacher; curriculum developer; speaker, and consultant who is working with schools, parents, and students on developing and implementing brain-based teaching and learning strategies in the classroom and in their daily lives.

Marcus Conyers, D.M.S., Consultant on brain-based learning; author of books on the brain, including BrainSMART ä Strategies (2000); leader of a three-year, state-wide initiative in Florida to apply brain research

Robert K. Greenleaf, Ed.D., Professional Development Specialist, Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory, Brown University, RI; President, Greenleaf Learning Center; "Outstanding Educator Award" recipient from Maine Public Schools

Jeb Schenck, Ph.D., High school biology teacher; educational consultant on brain-based strategies; memory researcher whose studies focus on student long-term memory and maintenance of adult long-term memory, with several studies currently underway; author of Learning, Teaching and the Brain (2000).

Harvey F. Silver, Ed.D., President, Silver, Strong & Associates; recently named as one of the100 most influential teachers in the United States; co-author of numerous books for educators, including the best-selling series, Teaching Styles and Strategies Series and the books, Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies to Raise Student Achievement (2001) and So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligence (2000)

Marilee B. Sprenger, M.A., Adjunct Professor, Aurora University, IL; former sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade teacher; national speaker; and author of Learning and Memory: The Brain in Action (1999), Becoming a Wiz at Brain-Based Teaching (2001), and Making Math Memorable (2002)