Friday, February 7, 2025 12pm to 1pm
Center for BrainHealth, in the Brain Performance Institute building
Psychosis Risk and Resilience During Adolescence: Insights from Women’s Neurodevelopment
The Center for BrainHealth invites scientists to share their scientific study with students and other researchers at the BrainHealth Frontiers Lunch Lectures. The lectures are heavily science focused and are not intended for a lay audience.
Friday, 2/7/2025 at noon - 1:00pm
Registration is free. Please Register to attend this in-person and virtual event.
Katherine Damme, PhD
UT Dallas
Despite a growing focus on the early identification, intervention, and prevention of psychosis in adolescence, little attention has been given to understanding neurodevelopmental and pubertal context that the precede psychosis onset. This period is also marked by initiation and rising gonadal hormones, which have a powerful impact on the neuromaturation, connectivity, and cognitive function. This developmental context may impart explain sex differences in timing of psychosis onset and course. Hormones like estrogen effect normative neurodevelopment may act on mechanism of psychosis onset and provide resiliency to women who are otherwise at risk for psychosis. My research leverages normative changes in late childhood and early adolescent development provides a natural experiment to understanding the neurodevelopmental interactions estrogen has with vulnerability to psychosis.
The host for this event is Sandi Chapman, PhD.
The spring 2025 season will be hybrid. Register free of charge for the season and join us for as many talks as you are able.
Center for BrainHealth, in the Brain Performance Institute building
2200 West Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX 75235
Center for BrainHealth, in the Brain Performance Institute building
2200 West Mockingbird Lane Dallas, TX 75235
Faculty & Staff, Undergraduate Students, General Public, Prospective Students, Graduate Students
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