PSYT 522 — Early Adversity, Development and Health

The concept of adversity during critical developmental periods from gestation to adolescence. Examination of neurodevelopmental mechanisms, neural pathways and plasticity leading to vulnerability and resilience. How single cell expression patterns, neuronal networks and gene association studies can inform about the biological underpinnings of adversity, the individual differences in susceptibility and how these biological mechanisms link psychopathologies to other comorbidities.

• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine & Hlth Sci
• Department: Psychiatry
• Prerequisites: BIOL 201, BIOC 212, ANAT 212, BIOL 202, BIOL 306, BIOL 370, ANAT 322 or equivalent; permission of the instructor if prerequisites are not met.