Sponsored by the UCLA Brain Mapping Center Faculty
The focus of these talks is on advancing the use of brain mapping methods in neuroscience with an emphasis on contemporary issues of neuroplasticity, neurodevelopment, and biomarker development in neuropsychiatric disease.
Hosted By: Shantanu Joshi, PhD, Neurology, UCLA
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Bridget Callaghan, PhD Assistant Professor, Psychology Director, The Brain and Body Lab (BABLab) UCLA |
Children’s early experiences with caregivers impact their mental and physical health across the lifespan. That such early caregiving experiences can become biologically and psychologically embedded within an individual, means that multiple generations may be affected by said experiences. My research program investigates the neurobiological mechanisms via which early caregiving experiences impact children’s mental and physical health, and how those experiences may be transmitted to impact future generations. In this talk, I will present data from several studies demonstrating impacts of early life adversity either directly experienced by the child, or indirectly experienced through the mother’s history, on emotional health, physical health, and the functioning of the brain-gut-microbiome axis in children. Mechanistic links between emotional and physical health and the functioning of the brain-gut-microbiome axis will be discussed.
