Everything You Want to Know About Twins

Tuesday, May 18, 2010, The UCLA Center for Society and Genetics hosted a special panel discussion, "Everything You Want to Know About Twins," in Lenart Auditorium at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

The presentation featured a panel of the country's experts in the field of twins' development, genetics, and psychotherapy including Dr. Eric Vilain (UCLA Center for Society and Genetics and UCLA Professor of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, and Urology) as well as Dr. Laura Baker (Professor, Psychology and Director of USC Twin Project), Dr. Joan Friedman (author of "Emotionally Healthy Twins"), Dr. Thomas Mack (USC Professor of Preventive Medicine and Pathology), Dr. Eileen Pearlman ("Raising Twins: What Parents Want to Know [And What Twins Tell Them]"), and Dr. Nancy Segal (CSU Fullerton Professor of Psychology, author of "Indivisible by Two" and " Entwined Lives").

The panel discussion was moderated by Abigail Pogrebin (former 60 Minutes producer and author of "One and the Same"). www.socgen.ucla.edu

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