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DESCRIPTION:Cecilia Flores (Dept. of Psychiatry\, Dept. of Neurology & Neur
 osurgery\, Douglas Research Centre) and Anna Weinberg (Dept. of Psychology
 )\n\nAdolescence is an age of increased vulnerability to mental illness\, 
 but we still know very little about the cellular and molecular process ong
 oing during adolescent brain development and how they are impacted by expe
 rience\, including drugs of abuse and stressors. This talk focuses on the 
 emerging role of axonal guidance cues in the maturation of the prefrontal 
 cortex in adolescence and its implications for psychiatric susceptibility 
 and resilience. The speakers will discuss findings from rodent and human s
 tudies showing that risk and protective factors target guidance cue system
 s in adolescence\, altering the organization of prefrontal cortex connecti
 vity and cognitive function in adulthood. They will emphasize that the dir
 ection\, magnitude\, and consequences of these effects vary between males 
 and females and depend on the specific adolescent period.\n\nCecilia Flore
 s\, PhD\, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and an Associate 
 Member in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery. The overall theme 
 of her research is the neurobiology of brain development in adolescence an
 d how it is impacted by stressors and drugs of abuse. Using multidisciplin
 ary and translational approaches\, her team has demonstrated that a set of
  guidance cue genes and their epigenetic regulators orchestrate the develo
 pment of the\n	prefrontal cortex in adolescence and are tightly linked to s
 ubstance use disorder and major depression in humans. Her work has been co
 nsistently funded by international and national agencies\, including NIH a
 nd CIHR.\n\nAnna Weinberg\, PhD\, is an Assistant Professor in the Departm
 ent of Psychology and a Canada Research Chair in Clinical Neuroscience at 
 ºÃÉ«TV. She is also the lab director at the Translational Resea
 rch in Affect and Cognition lab (TRAC lab). Her research there focuses on 
 cognitive-affective processes that give rise to psycho-pathology using eve
 nt-related potentials (ERPs).The goal of this research is to identify biol
 ogical pathways that give rise to disordered emotional experience. In part
 icular\, the work focuses on depression and anxiety.\n\nWatch the recordin
 g of this presentation\n\n\nMini-Science 2022: The Brain – Frontiers in Ne
 uroscience\n\nExciting presentations by some of ºÃÉ«TVl's leading neuroscie
 ntists about the brain\, the mind and the neuroscience of living as we now
  understand it. Find out how the brain and memory changes as we age\, or h
 ow the bilingual brain functions\, and how remarkably emotional our brains
  are.\n\nAll talks are in English.\n\nDiscover the Mini-Science series\n
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SUMMARY:Mini-Science public talk: The adolescent brain
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 dolescent-brain-335982
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