Research spanning decades has shown that the roots of mental and physical health can often be traced to experiences very early in life. According to clinical, epidemiologic, and basic science research, two relatively common experiences - malnutrition and psychosocial stress – significantly impact children's future neurodevelopment and physical health. However, these experiences are typically studied in isolation. In development, stress is not just a psychosocial construct with psychosocial loci but also arises from the material contexts of childhood, including those that create disrupted nutritional states. This talk focuses on how the developing brain and body mobilize resources and make physiological adaptations in response to adverse early-life experiences (e.g., stress, caregiving adversity, and disrupted nutritional states). This talk will present multiple research studies on how these experiences in the first years of life affect development, focusing on how these early roots of health become biologically embedded through stress physiology, immunity, and growth to lay the foundation for the architecture of development and highlight future directions for research in developmental science. Dr. Brie M. Reid, PhD, is a Research Investigator & Postdoctoral Fellow funded by a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NICHD in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University with Dr. Laura Stroud. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology with a doctoral minor in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota, where she worked with Drs. Megan Gunnar and Michael Georgieff, funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Dr. Reid is a developmental psychobiologist who studies stress and its regulation in early development. Her broadly examines how our earliest experiences shape how we respond to stress, how the physiology of stress changes how our brains and bodies manage neurodevelopment, health, and behavior.
Nutritional SciencesStress & nutrition: key early experiences building the architecture of development
Nutritional Sciences Faculty Candidate
February 9, 2023
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
M1152 SPH II
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Sponsored by: Nutritional Sciences
Contact Information: Nancy Polderdyke
Research spanning decades has shown that the roots of mental and physical health can often be traced to experiences very early in life. According to clinical, epidemiologic, and basic science research, two relatively common experiences - malnutrition and psychosocial stress – significantly impact children's future neurodevelopment and physical health. However, these experiences are typically studied in isolation. In development, stress is not just a psychosocial construct with psychosocial loci but also arises from the material contexts of childhood, including those that create disrupted nutritional states. This talk focuses on how the developing brain and body mobilize resources and make physiological adaptations in response to adverse early-life experiences (e.g., stress, caregiving adversity, and disrupted nutritional states). This talk will present multiple research studies on how these experiences in the first years of life affect development, focusing on how these early roots of health become biologically embedded through stress physiology, immunity, and growth to lay the foundation for the architecture of development and highlight future directions for research in developmental science. Dr. Brie M. Reid, PhD, is a Research Investigator & Postdoctoral Fellow funded by a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NICHD in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University with Dr. Laura Stroud. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology with a doctoral minor in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota, where she worked with Drs. Megan Gunnar and Michael Georgieff, funded by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Dr. Reid is a developmental psychobiologist who studies stress and its regulation in early development. Her broadly examines how our earliest experiences shape how we respond to stress, how the physiology of stress changes how our brains and bodies manage neurodevelopment, health, and behavior.
