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"New Insights on Early Life Stress and Mental Health" -- Dr. Rob Anda will give the keynote address at this symposium at the MIT institute that focuses on learning and memory.
Other speakers at the day-long symposium include Drs. Jack Shonkoff, Moshe Szyf, and Li-Huei Tsai.
Sociological studies have long indicated that children born to poverty are likely to remain in poverty as adults, and that children who experience neglect, abuse, and deprivation are at a much higher risk for disorders of depression, anxiety, and addiction as adults.
Within the last two decades, scientists have begun to examine the biological repercussions of early childhood stress, and have uncovered clues as to how these early life experiences cause lasting changes in DNA and the brain that predispose individuals to disabling behavioral and psychiatric disorders in adolescence and adulthood.
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