Logan Brewer shares evidence for Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats as a rodent model of ADHD, including an inattentive phenotype- during EEG, rats show lower P1 & P1-N1 amplitudes to auditory tones, suggesting deficits in attention that map onto human behavior #2023SPR @therealspr.bsky.social

Exciting translational psych findings this afternoon @therealspr.bsky.social - Dr. Neal McNeal shares that prairie voles act as a model organism for understanding how social stress, including isolation, acts as a risk factor for heath problems like autonomic dysregulation in humans #2023SPR

Rounding out this symposium, @AlinaKoppold emphasized the need for advances in the measurement of early adversity given large heterogeneity between existing EA measures, culture gaps, & high complexity of this phenomenon- very cool to see this highlighted at #2023SPR @therealspr.bsky.social

Today @therealspr.bsky.social, @alexandra_tyra showed that women w/ more early physical trauma may have lower cardiovascular habituation to stress, regardless of emotion regulation ability- though interestingly, high emotion regulation ability may lead to lower perceived stress #2023SPR

At this morning’s Invited Address @therealspr.bsky.social, Dr. Rita Z. Goldstein spoke about the role of language in promoting recovery of the PFC in addiction: “Language is a great marker of the brain and behavior in human addiction” #2023SPR