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SUMMARY:The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to deve
 lop psychopathologies - Professor Carmen Sandi\, Director of the Laborator
 y of Behavioural Genetics\, Brain and Mind Institute\, EPFL\, Lausanne
DTSTART:20160303T153000Z
DTEND:20160303T163000Z
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CONTACT:Deborah McSkimming
DESCRIPTION:Stress is an important modulator of brain function\, behaviour
  and cognition\, and can trigger or exacerbate psychopathologies. I will p
 resent findings showing that both stress during early life and chronic str
 ess at adulthood leads to alterations in depression- and anxiety-like beha
 viours\, as well as dysfunctional behaviours in the social domain. Importa
 ntly\, individual differences in stress effects are largely related to the
  personality trait anxiety. Despite recent interest in identifying the med
 iating mechanisms whereby highly anxious individuals eventually develop th
 ese psychopathologies\, current understanding is scarce. I will present re
 cent evidence that highlights brain energy metabolism as a relevant mediat
 ing mechanism. 
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit\, Chaucer
  Road
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