2 more Contributors on Brain, Education issues

We are pleased to announce that we’ll have 2 addi­tion­al excel­lent con­tri­bu­tions dur­ing February:

- Adri­an Pre­da, M.D., will write about a brain plas­tic­i­ty topic.

Adri­an Pre­da, M.D. is an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try and Human Behav­ior in the UC Irvine School of Med­i­cine. His exper­tise in human behav­ior, psy­chol­o­gy and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty is based on years of expe­ri­ence work­ing as a psy­chi­a­trist, psy­chother­a­pist, teacher and researcher in a vari­ety of aca­d­e­m­ic clin­i­cal and non-clin­i­cal set­tings, includ­ing Yale Psy­chi­atric Insti­tute, Yale New Haven Hos­pi­tal, Yale Health Plan, UT South­west­ern and UC Irvine Neu­ro-Psy­chi­atric Research. 

- Joanne Jacobs, edu­ca­tion expert and great blog­ger, will par­tic­i­pate in our Author Speaks Series. 

Once a Knight Rid­der columnist, Joanne is now a free­lance writer and author of a book about a char­ter school that pre­pares His­pan­ic stu­dents for college. Her most recent book is Our School: The Inspir­ing Sto­ry of Two Teach­ers, One Big Idea and the Char­ter School That Beat the Odds.