Women's Brain Health: Young Investigator Symposium

May 12, 2020, 8:30 am to 11:15 am

Webinar
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Seven winners of a Young Investigator Award will share their research on women's brain health in this webinar. Participants will learn about interesting topics including how pharmacogenetic testing may be useful to pregnant women taking SSRI's, and how exercise impacts Alzheimers Disease and psychosis. They will also get access to view 30 additional research posters on women's brain health and can interact with speakers as well as poster authors in multiple Q&A sessions.

Event Schedule:

8:30-8:35—Welcome, territorial acknowledgement 

8:35-10:20—Young Investigator Award speakers (10 minute presentations followed by a 5 min Q&A)

  • 8:35-8:50—Speaker 1: Ann-Marie de Lange 
  • 8:50-9:05—Speaker 2: Claudia Barth
  • 9:05-9:20—Speaker 3: Cindy Barha
  • 9:20-9:35—Speaker 4: Catriona Hippman
  • 9:35-9:50—Speaker 5: Travis Hodges
  • 9:50-10:05—Speaker 6: Melissa Woodward
  • 10:05-10:20—Speaker 7: Caitlin Taylor

10:20-10:30—Break

10:30-11:30—Poster Session Q&A

  • 10:30-10:50—Poster Session Q&A: Injury and Diseases
  • 10:50-11:10—Poster Presentation Q&A: Mental Health
  • 11:10-11:30—Poster Presentation Q&A: Sex Hormones and Sex Differences

Register Here      Tickets are only $10!  

Speakers:

Check out their full abstracts here.

claudia barth
Claudia Barth, PhD.

Presentation Title: Sex Hormones and Women's Brain Aging: Evidence for an “Optimal Lifetime Sex Hormone Exposure” Hypothesis

cindy barha
Cindy Barha, PhD.

Presentation Title: Walking For Brain Health: The Effects of Biological Sex And Parity On Exercise Efficacy

catriona hippman
Catriona Hippman, PhD.

Presentation Title: Pharmacogenetic testing for CYP2D6 and CYP2C19: Can it offer guidance for pregnant women taking SSRIs?

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Travis Hodges, PhD.

Presentation Title: Sex-specific behaviours in a fear-based cognitive bias task and neural correlates from adolescence to adulthood in rats

melissa woodward
Melissa Woodward, PhD.

Presentation Title: Medial Temporal Lobe Cortical Changes In Response To Exercise Interventions In Women With Early Psychosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

caitlin taylor
Caitlin Taylor, PhD.

Presentation Title: Progesterone Shapes Medial Temporal Lobe Volume Across a Human Menstrual Cycle 

ann marie delange
Ann-Marie de Lange, PhD.

Presentation Title: Population-based Neuroimaging Reveals Traces of Childbirth in the Maternal Brain

Poster Abstracts:

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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