[BIC-announce] Announcement for Wednesday's (tomorrow) round table discussion at the Douglas

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

FOR YOUR INFORMATION.  JENNIFER 
Sent on behalf of Dr. Jens Pruessner

Organized by the McGill Centre for Studies in Aging and the Aging and Alzheimer Research Axis, Douglas Institute

A roundtable discussion with Pathik Wadhwa, Behavioral Perinatology Research Program, UC Irvine, USA

Stress-related psychoneuroendocrine processes in human pregnancy on fetal developmental and health outcomes

Dobell Pavilion, Bowerman Room B-1105
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
13h30-14h30

Dr. Wadhwa will give a short presentation followed by an extensive question and answer period. 
Anybody who is interested is welcome!   


Individual differences in psychoneuroendocrine function play an important role in health and disease. Developmental models postulate that these individual differences evolve through a progressive series of dynamic time-, place- and context-dependent interactions between genes and environments in fetal, infant and adult life. The effects of early experience have longer-lasting and more permanent consequences than those later in life. Experimental studies in animals have provided convincing evidence to support a causal role for stress-related psychoneuroendocrine processes in negatively influencing critical developmental and health outcomes over the life span, and have also offered valuable insights into putative physiological mechanisms. However, the generalizability of these findings from animals to humans may be limited by the existence of large inter-species differences in physiology and the developmental time-line. Dr. Wadhwa has initiated a program of research in behavioral perinatology and conducted studies over the past several years to examine the effects of stress-related psychoneuroendocrine processes in human pregnancy on fetal developmental and health outcomes. His findings support a significant and independent role for maternal prenatal stress in the etiology of prematurity-related outcomes, and suggest that these effects are mediated, in part, by the maternal-placental-fetal neuroendocrine axis, and specifically by placental corticotropin-releasing hormone.
 

Centre McGill d'étude sur le vieillissement & axe Vieillissement et maladie d'Alzheimer.

Une discussion table-ronde avec Pathik Wadhwa, Programme de Recherche en Perinatalogie Comportementale, UC Irvine, USA

Effet des orocessus Psychoneuroendocriniens reliés au stress durant la grossesse sur la santé et le développement du feotus.

Pavillon Dobell, salle Bowerman B-1105
Le mercredi 21 octobre, 2009 
à 13h30

Dr. Wadhwa donnera une courte présentation suivie d'une période allongée de questions et responses.  Tous ceux et celles interessés sont les bienvenus.

Les différences inter-individuelles au niveau psychoneuroendocrinien jouent un rôle important au niveau de la santé. Les modèles de développement postulent que ces différences apparaissent à la suite d'une série d'interactions génétique-environnement, dépendantes du moment, endroit et contexte, et ce, à tous les âges. Les effets des expériences précoces se sont aussi révélées plus importantes et plus stables que celles vécues plus tard. Les études chez les animaux ont illustré le rôle causal et négatif des processus psychoneuroendocrinologiques reliés au stress dans le développement sain au travers de la vie, et nous ont aussi illustré les mécanismes délétères potentiellement responsables pour ces effets. Cependant, la généralisation de ces modèles animaux à l'être humain peut être limité par des différences physiologiques et développementales inter-espèces. Le Dr Wadhwa a créé un programme de recherche sur la périnatalité comportement permettant l'étude, depuis plusieurs années, des effets des processus psychoneuroendocrinologiques reliés au stress sur le développement fétal humain et ses conséquences. Ses résultats supportent un rôle significatif et indépendant du stress prénatal chez la mère sur l'étiologie de trouble reliés à la prématurité, et suggèrent que cet effet est médié par l'axe neuroendocrinien entre la mère et le foetus, spécifiquement via l'hormone cotricotropique placentaire. 


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From: Jennifer Chew, Ms.
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:44 AM
To: Catherine D'Aguiar
Subject: RE: Announcement for Wednesday's (tomorrow) round table discussion at the Douglas

 Hi Catherine:  It does not work with cut and paste.  Pls. extract what you want advertised and send it, Date, time, place, etc. speaker, and I will forward.  Jennifer


Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975


-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine D'Aguiar
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:37 AM
To: Jennifer Chew, Ms.
Subject: RE: Announcement for Wednesday's (tomorrow) round table discussion at the Douglas

Hi Jennifer,

Here you go!

Let me know if you need anything more.

All the best,

Catherine
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From: Jennifer Chew, Ms.
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:25 AM
To: Catherine D'Aguiar
Subject: RE: Announcement for Wednesday's (tomorrow) round table discussion at the Douglas

 Hi Catherine:  Can you send me word documents to cut and paste.  Thank you. Jennifer


Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975


-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine D'Aguiar
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:23 AM
To: Jennifer Chew, Ms.
Subject: Announcement for Wednesday's (tomorrow) round table discussion at the Douglas

Hello Jennifer,

Could you please make a bic announcement with the following attached posters?

Thank you,

Catherine D'Aguiar
Research Assisant
514-761-6131 x 3298

on behalf of

Jens Pruessner, PhD
Director, McGill Centre for Studies in Aging Director, Aging and Alzheimer Research Axis, Douglas Institute Associate Professor, Depts. of Psychology, Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada