Glia and the lasting impact of early-life adversity on cortical neuroplasticity in humans
Special Seminar
- Datum: 14.11.2024
- Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 11:00
- Vortragende(r): Prof. Dr. Naguib Mechawar
- Ort: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
- Raum: Conference Room 019 (Museum)
- Gastgeber: Janine Knauer-Arloth

Speaker: Naguib Mechawar, McGill University
Host: Janine Knauer-Arloth
This talk will present data generated with well-characterized human brain samples showing that childhood abuse has lasting consequences on perineuronal nets in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex; a phenomenon hypothesized to be mediated by glial cells, namely microglia, based on recent (unpublished) results.