Presentations from the May 13, 2010 Seminar on Biological Markers for Healthy Development: Recent Findings from Mental Health and Obesity Studies

SEMINAR AGENDA

Session 1: Interactions among Biology and Social Environments – Biological Markers for Mental Health Consequences

Charles Nelson, The search for an endophenotype for autism

Emma Adam, Diurnal cortisol rhythms: Social determinants and role as a risk, state or scar marker for major depressive disorder in youth (presentation will be available at a later date)

Staci Bilbo, The role of the immune system in translating early-life experience to later-life brain and behavior

Session 2: The Role of Early Life Experience in the Regulation of Immune and Metabolic Functions

Elissa Epel, Biological embedding of life stress? Telomeres and Telomerase

Sebastien G. Bouret, Early life origins of obesity: Role of hypothalamic programming

Kevin Grove, The role of early metabolic imprinting in escalating obesity rates in children and the link to childhood anxiety and depression

Paul Taylor, Developmental origins of obesity and the metabolic syndrome

Mandy Brown Belfort, Maternal iron status in pregnancy and offspring blood pressure in childhood