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World Renown Researcher to Discuss Intergenerational Effects of Trauma

March 5, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Free

On Thursday, March 5 at 12 p.m., Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which includes the PTSD clinical research program and the Neurochemistry and Neuroendocrinology laboratory at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, will speak about her research on “The Intergenerational Effects of Trauma.” Her talk will be held in the H-Wing auditorium (H129) under the auspices of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Dr. Yehuda is a recognized leader in the field of traumatic stress studies. She has authored more than 250 published papers, chapters, and books in the field of traumatic stress and the neurobiology of PTSD.  Her current interests include the study of risk and resilience factors, psychological and biological predictors of treatment response in PTSD, genetic and epigenetic studies of PTSD and the intergenerational transmission of trauma and PTSD.

Details

Date:
March 5, 2020
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Venue

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Ramapo College
Mahwah, NJ, 07430 United States
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201.684.7409
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