Por que as pessoas com traumas de infância apresentam um risco maior de apresentarem comportamentos impulsivos, que as colocam em situações de autoinjúria e autodestruição?

Early life trauma and impulse control in the adult: the neurological path of a risky and broken biography
Horário: 10h15-11h00
Palestrante: Prof.. Dr. Edward Ziff (New York University-EUA)

Edward Ziff received a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1963 and a PhD from Princeton University in Biochemistry in 1969. As a postdoctoral student with Nobel Prize winner, Fred Sanger, in Cambridge he conducted early genome sequencing studies. Ed served on the faculties of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London and Rockefeller University in New York. In 1982, he joined New York University School of Medicine, where he is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Neural Science and was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  Ed researches brain function and neurological disease and was a Visiting Researcher at UFGD in Dourados. He lives in New York, has written for The New York Review of Books, coauthored a popular book on DNA, and is an amateur photographer, video maker, and painter.

IV International Grand Dourados Neuroscience Symposium-October, 4th-7th, 2017-http://neurocienciasdourados.com.br/index.html