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URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/aug-2-2022-impact-sex-a
 ge-and-stress-cognitive-bias/
SUMMARY:The Impact of Sex\, Age\, and Stress on Cognitive Bias
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSeminar Title: The Impact of Sex\, Age\, and Stress on Cog
 nitive Bias\nPresenter: Dr. Travis Hodges\, Assistant Professor at Mount
  Holyoke College\n\nDr. Travis Hodges is an Assistant Professor in the dep
 artment of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts\, USA. On 
 his journey\, Travis completed his undergraduate studies at the University
  of Manitoba (Manitoba\, Canada) and then completed his Masters and Ph.D. 
 in Psychology at Brock University (Ontario\, Canada) under the supervision
  of Dr. Cheryl McCormick\, where he held an NSERC graduate scholarship. He
  then went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of D
 r. Liisa Galea (UBC\, British Columbia Canada)\, with acquired funding fro
 m the Institute of Mental Health Marshall Fellows Program and a Women’s 
 Health Research Institute Catalyst Grant. Travis has won many travel award
 s\, presentation awards\, and a poster award at international conferences.
   Travis is devoted to mentorship and providing a safe environment for tr
 ainees to enjoy science. Travis is also devoted to promoting diversity\, e
 quity\, and inclusion through connections with the Women’s Health Resear
 ch Cluster and #BlackinNeuro.\n\nTalk Summary: Major depressive disorder 
 (MDD) affects 20% of the population and women are twice more likely to dev
 elop MDD compared with men. Negative cognitive bias is the increased perce
 ption of ambiguous situations as negative and predicts the onset of future
  depressive episodes. Current treatments to reduce MDD symptoms are not ef
 fective for reducing negative cognitive bias. Cognitive bias involves patt
 ern separation\, which is the ability to discriminate between highly simil
 ar situations\, and pattern separation relies on hippocampal integrity and
  is inhibited by inflammation. Cognitive bias was tested in rats using a n
 ovel method\, and the involvement of neural networks\, inflammation\, and 
 neurogenesis were measured in male and female rats throughout development 
 and after chronic unpredictable stress. These data provide examples of mec
 hanistic sex differences in the display of negative cognitive bias across 
 development and stress the importance of analysing sex and age when invest
 igating the neurobiology of depressive-like phenotypes.\n\n&nbsp\;
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CATEGORIES:Women’s Health Seminar Series
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