Early Life Experiences. Vulnerability or Resilience?

Early Life Experiences. Vulnerability or Resilience?
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Early Life Experiences. Vulnerability or Resilience?

25th and 26th October 2016

CosmoCaixa Barcelona. C/ Isaac Newton, 26. Barcelona

Scientific leaders

Roser Nadal and Adolf Tobeña
Institut de Neurociències (INC) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

Poster
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Program
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Synopsis
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Description

Mental health disorders are the leading cause of disability in western countries accounting for 25 percent of all years of life lost due to disability and premature mortality. The World Economic Forum recognized that mental disorders have emerged as the single largest health cost, with global projections increasing to $6 trillion annually by 2030, more than diabetes, cancer, and pulmonary diseases combined. Most mental disorders (70%) start early in life (infancy, childhood and adolescence) and are the product of genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors. One of the most studied environmental factors that predispose to Psychopathology is early life stress.

The knowledge of the factors responsible of inducing vulnerability versus resilience regarding early life stress exposure is of vital importance, and can have key preventive and therapeutic implications. Moreover, it has been recently shown that “positive” experiences, such as environmental enrichment, also shape brain development, though the induction of epigenetic changes that can even be transmitted from one generation to another.

This B·Debate sessions, an initiative of Biocat and Obra Social “la Caixa”, organized by Institut de Neurociències  with the collaboration of the CORE de Salut Mental from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) and the The Institute for the study of Affective Neuroscience have the main objective to establish the right agenda, with the appropriate participants and the adequate environment, to generate a fruitful discussion regarding the current status of research in the field, new frontiers being explored and the translation of recent findings into prevention/treatment measures to benefit current and future society a variety of disciplines such as Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Psychology, Psychiatry, Education and Public Health.

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