LIN Seminar: “Neural circuits of mood and their sensitivity to stress-induced inflammation” by Amiel Rosenkranz (Rosalind Franklin University)
February 8, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
SELE 4289
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Download iCal FilePlease join us on Feb. 8, 2024 at 4pm in SELE 4289 for a LIN Seminar featuring "Neural circuits of mood and their sensitivity to stress-induced inflammation" by Dr. Amiel Rosenkranz (Rosalind Franklin University)
Host: Max Loh
Abstract: Stress is a potent trigger for emergence of psychiatric disorders. While it has been studied for many decades, there is still debate about how stress may impact neural circuits to produce these effects. Converging evidence across several fields points to peripheral inflammation as a mediating factor. Stress can produce peripheral inflammation, mild peripheral inflammation is enough to produce mood changes and low-grade peripheral inflammation has been found in depression, anxiety, and other disorders that are exacerbated by stress. Social engagement is particularly sensitive, and social withdrawal is a common feature across depression, anxiety and inflammation. This seminar will give an overview of recent findings in the interaction between stress and inflammation, with a focus on the convergent neurobiological substrates for their effects on mood. The seminar will also present new unpublished work that aims to determine how stress and mild inflammation influence the neural circuits of social behavior. These findings demonstrate previously unknown links between inflammation and neural circuits of socio-emotional behaviors that may help us understand the effects of stress.
Date posted
Nov 10, 2023
Date updated
Jan 16, 2024