TITLE: "The Neurobiology of Child Abuse"

Speaker: Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D. University of Miami

Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):

1. Discuss how genetic polymorphisms and epigenetics effect psychiatric disease vulnerability.

2. Explain how a gene variation effects brain development and function so that the risk of a depressive episode or PTSD is increased.

3. Describe how early life experience produces persistent CNS alterations and its implications.

Target Audience: UConn Health faculty, residents, medical students, and other mental health professionals