BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251108T201750EST-6893KCPwOc@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251109T011750Z DESCRIPTION:Title: Are psychostimulants affecting children's hippocampal de velopment and function?聽\n\nPresenter:\n Dr. Sherif Karama is a medical doc tor (Universit茅 de Montr茅al) and 9I制作厂免费-trained general psychiatrist with research training in brain imaging and genetics. He obtained a PhD in Neur oscience (Universit茅 de Montr茅al) and pursued graduate studies in neuropsy chology at Harvard University for 12 months as an invited scholar. After h is psychiatry residency\, he completed a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in Brain Imaging of cognitive ability differences at the Montreal Neurolo gical Institute. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychia try at 9I制作厂免费. His work aims to understand the neurobiology of cognitive a bility differences and changes across the lifespan. Within this framework\ , he is interested by the impacts of exogenous and endogenous factors on s haping brain development and their corollary consequences on cognitive abi lity. Dr. Karama is based at the Douglas Mental Health University Institut e.\n\n\n Learning Objectives:\n\n1. Learn about studies that have shown tha t long-term psychostimulant use may harm hippocampus functioning in rodent s\n\n2. Learn about a recent cross-sectional study showing a negative asso ciation between cumulative psychostimulant use and hippocampal volume\n\n3 . Learn about the new longitudinal study on potential impacts of long-term psychostimulant use on hippocampal development in children and adolescent s\n\nThe Child Psychiatry Research Committee is sponsoring a Child Psychia try Research Seminar. This seminar is open to all staff and students. The seminar will be informal and encourage active audience participation and d iscussion. This seminar will be held by Zoom.\n\n\n Meeting ID: 624 5579 80 40\n Passcode: 534891\n DTSTART:20240213T173000Z DTEND:20240213T190000Z SUMMARY:Child Psychiatry Research Seminar URL:/psychiatry/channels/event/child-psychiatry-resear ch-seminar-355219 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR