Early Environments and Cortical-Subcortical Circuit Development

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• Dr Nim Tottenham, Associate Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
• Tuesday 14 March 2017, 13:30-15:00
• Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr. Milena Vurro.

Signals in the early environment are potent effectors of brain development. Variations in early species-typical experiences, such as parental caregiving, reveal the profound effects on the development of neurocircuitry involved in affective learning and regulation (e.g., amygdala, hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex). This talk will focus on both typical development as well as development following caregiver deprivation showing that early life early environments may influence development through learning as well as altering developmental pacing of this circuitry. These age-related changes will be discussed in terms of potential developmental sensitive periods for environmental influence.

This talk is part of the MRC CBU March talks series.

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