1-163 - Neuroscience Discovery Informing Child Maltreatment

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

In view of the significant research directions in translational research, the challenge for child maltreatment research remains the transformation of neuroscience knowledge and discovery into future research, policy and practice. The Institute of Medicine initiative on New Directions in Child Abuse Research appeals for a public health response that includes research priorities on causes and consequences and services in complex systems and policy (Institute of Medicine, 2013a, 2013b) (Diaz & Petersen, 2014). The report recommends that research capitalize not only on the existing knowledge base of child abuse and neglect research but also related fields. Research studies have integrated neurodevelopment, genetics, and socioenvironmental factors to understand child maltreatment (e.g. (Byrd & Manuck, 2014; Nikulina, Widom, & Brzustowicz, 2012)). Yet the integration of neuroscience and maltreatment is still novel and has been relatively slow, particularly for evidenced-based interventions. To hasten translational research, the Office of the Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development, NIH all within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), gathered experts across multiple disciplines to consider neuroscience and child maltreatment. In this symposium researchers will examine how neuroscience can elucidate differential outcomes of maltreated children and to suggest better targets for novel interventions.

Sub Unit

• Developmental Psychopathology

Chair

• Cheryl Anne Boyce, National Institutes of Health

Individual Presentations

• Relations between childhood adversity, post-traumatic symptoms, and neural activity - Presenting Author: Catherine Orr, University of Vermont; James Hudziak, University of Vermont; Matthew D. Albaugh, University of Vermont; Kerry O''Loughlin, University of Vermont; Nicholas D''Alberto, University of Vermont; Hannah Holbrook, University of Vermont; Hannah Holbrook, University of Vermont; Joan Kaufman, Yale University School of Medicine; Joan Kaufman, Yale University School of Medicine

• Take Your Mind Off It: Coping Style, 5-HTTLPR Genotype, and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems - Presenting Author: Sara R Jaffee, University of Pennsylvania; Jessie Cline, Temple University; Zhi Li, University of California-Davis; Edward Charles Melhuish, Inst for Study of Chld Fam & Soc Iss; Laura Lysenko, King’s College London; Tara McFarquhar, University of London; Tara McFarquhar, University of London; Suzanne E. Stevens, University of Auckland

• Advances in the use of neuroscience to intervene on the effects of maltreatment in child welfare system involved children - Mary Dozier, University of Delaware; Presenting Author: Philip Andrew Fisher, University of Oregon