Speakers > Naguib Mechawar
Dr. Naguib Mechawar is a Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, and head of the Neuroanatomy of mood disorders and suicide laboratory as well as of the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank at the Douglas Institute. His research is focused on the fine neuroanatomy and molecular neuroplasticity of limbic brain circuits in depression and suicide. In the past few years, his lab has focused most of its efforts at investigating the lasting impact of early-life adversity on glial cells and neuroplasticity. Early-life adversity and altered cerebral plasticity: recent cellular and molecular evidence in humans
This talk will present recent post-mortem data generated in well-characterized human brain samples showing that child abuse has lasting consequences on major features associated with cortical plasticity, namely myelination and perineuronal nets. |
