This year's Bühler Colloquium of the Faculty of Psychology will start on Wednesday, 29 November 2023, with a lecture by Prof. Christine Heim from the Charité Berlin entitled: "Scars in the brain: Neurobiological consequences of childhood trauma".

Abstract:
Early traumatic life experiences are a widespread risk factor for the development of severe mental and physical illnesses across the lifespan and for reduced life expectancy. A better understanding of the early environmental influences and the biological and psychological mechanisms that lead to negative health consequences of early traumatisation is necessary to counteract these consequences. Prof. Heim discusses the research to date, which is providing increasing insights into the mechanisms. She talks about processes of biological embedding of early traumatic life experiences and links molecular, neural, physiological, emotional and cognitive processes that together lead to long-term developmental programming of negative health outcomes. In fact, there are no mechanism-driven interventions to mitigate negative health outcomes and no diagnostic markers to identify at-risk individuals or those in need of specific intervention. These findings may pave the way for an improved conceptualisation of mental disorders that takes into account developmental mechanisms across diagnostic boundaries and enables innovative and targeted interventions to prevent negative health outcomes.

The event starts at 5 pm in the lecture hall of the Andreas Schubert Building. Registration is requested at:
https://tu-dresden.de/mn/psychologie/ifap/biopsychologie/die-professur/Aktuelles/anmeldung-buehlerkolloquium

The lecture will be followed by a small get-together with the speaker.

The other Bühler talks the winter semester 2023/24 also promise exciting insights into current research areas in psychology:

06.12.23 Andrea Jungaberle (OVID Clinic Berlin) - Psychedelic psychotherapy: from mystical experience to neuroplasticity

10.01.24 Klaus Fiedler (University of Heidelberg) - No more replication crisis: How to make behavioural science studies replicable

17.01.24 Matthias Kliegel (University of Geneva) - From lab to life: Multidomain cognitive training across the lifespan

24.01.24 Thomas Goschke (Dresden University of Technology) - Volition and cognitive control: Where do we stand - where should we go?

Start is 5 pm each day. Here, too, we ask you to register in time

Event poster

Organisation and contact:
Prof. Clemens Kirschbaum
Biopsychology
Tel. +49 351 463-39660
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