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Bryan Stevenson, the featured speaker and the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama and a Harvard Law School alum, also praised the winners for their years of work. "Your fight," he said, "is what this legacy is all about...
...many of the researchers whose work contributed to the frenzy are worried that their findings are being misinterpreted by the public. "The breathtaking PET scans of babies' brains have fueled a kind of anxiety that is unwarranted," says Craig Ramey, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Alabama, referring to the imaging technology that vividly depicts areas of high and low brain activity. "Parents may be conveying to their children a franticness about doing everything right." University of Chicago psychology professor Janellen Huttenlocher, who reported correlations between the size of toddlers' vocabularies and how much their mothers talk to them...
...Infants in the care of mothers with severe depression show reduced brain activity as well as prominent effects in the parts of the brain associated with the expression of feelings. "This may result from such mothers' inability to relate affectionately and responsively to their infants," writes the University of Alabama's Ramey in his forthcoming book Right from Birth. "The longer the mother's depression continues, the greater the chances that her baby will have later behavioral or emotional problems...
...became aware of the radical deforestation of much of the state of Alabama when I was in my teens," Wilson said...
...native forests of Alabama are under continued pressure even though they're down to just a small fraction of the original cover," he said...