Scars in the Brain
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| Admission free |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer. |
| Dates and ticket booking for the coming month will be activated at the end of the previous month. |
| Duration: 60 min |
| 14 years and older |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| max. 25 persons |
| Part of: Meet the Scientist |
People adapt to their environment, also through changes in the brain. This widely observed phenomenon is particularly pronounced in childhood. Therefore, both positive and negative conditions during early development can have particularly long-lasting effects on brain functions. In the StressBrainAge study, scientists from the Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure are investigating the connection between stress factors in childhood and inflammation and ageing processes in the brain. During Meet the Scientist, Lara Fleck and Christine Heim explain whether such experiences increase the risk of neurological diseases in old age.
SPEAKER
After completing a master’s thesis in Alzheimer’s research, Lara Fleck is a doctoral student working on long-term biological changes in the brain after early experiences of stress. She is currently a research associate at the Institute of Medical Psychology and works in close cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure.
Christine Heim is Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure. She researches the effects of traumatic life experiences in childhood on neurobiological systems and their connection to the development of mental and physical illnesses. With her research, she has brought a highly regarded neuro-developmental psychological perspective to psychiatry and medicine, which is central to understanding the sociobiological basis of mental illnesses, but also somatic diseases.
An event in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure as part of Brain Awareness Week Berlin.
