Biography

Ian H. Gotlib is the David Starr Jordan Professor and Director of the Stanford Neurodevelopment, Affect, and Psychopathology (SNAP) Laboratory at Stanford University. Dr. Gotlib examines psychobiological factors that place children, adolescents, and adults at risk for developing depression and engaging in suicidal behaviors, and processes that are protective in this context. He examines neural, cognitive, social, endocrinological, and genetic factors in depressed individuals and applies findings from these investigations to the study of predictors of depression in children at risk for this disorder. Dr. Gotlib is also examining the differential effects of early life stress on trajectories of neurodevelopment in boys and girls through puberty in order to explain the increased prevalence of depression and suicidal behaviors in girls in adolescence. Finally, Dr. Gotlib is extending this work to the study of brain function and structure, endocrine function, and behaviors in neonates and infants being raised in suboptimal environments.

Website: http://snaplab.stanford.edu

Andrea Danese, MD, PhD, is [Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry] (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/andrea-danese) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. The research from his team focuses on childhood trauma and emotional disorders in young people. He has published widely on the measurement and consequences of childhood trauma, the mechanisms through which childhood trauma affects health, and treatment of trauma-related psychopathology. Professor Danese is an active clinician, working as [Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist] (https://www.slam.nhs.uk/national-services/our-experts/prof-andrea-danese/) at the National & Specialist CAMHS Clinic for Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust — a multi-disciplinary clinical service that attracts referrals from across the UK and abroad for second opinion on diagnosis and treatment of hard-to-treat young people with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety disorders, and depression. He is also the [Academic Secretary] (https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/members/your-faculties/child-adolescent-psychiatry/about-us) for the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) Faculty of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Twitter: @andrea_danese

Early-Life Stress and Neurobiological Development

Session Type: Invited Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will focus on the associations between early-life stressors and biological development.

Sub Unit

• Invited Program

Individual Presentations

• Early Life Stress, Neurodevelopment, and Adolescents' Response to the Pandemic - Presenting Author: Ian Gotlib, Stanford University

• The Impact of Childhood Trauma: What We Don’t Know - Presenting Author: Andrea Danese, King's College London

Moderator

• Jennifer Silvers, University of California - Los Angeles

Introducer

• Michelle P Brown, University of South Carolina