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Welcome to the UNC Brain and Humanity Collaborative Catalyst Seminar!

We are excited to launch our new collaborative initiative.

The UNC Brain and Humanity Collaborative Catalyst Seminar aims to explore key findings, literature, methods, and approaches to biopsychosocial factors that impact brain maturation and adolescent mental health.

Adolescence is a critical period for neural and social-emotional development, and a key time for the onset of neuropsychiatric disorders. Our understanding of biological, psychological and social
factors that synergistically contribute to the emergence of mental health problems during adolescence and effect daily lives and society, remain unknown.

The goal of this seminar is to foster transdisciplinary intellectual exchanges to review complex factors that affect adolescent brain development and mental health, and inform policies that can mitigate them.

We hosted 6 seminars through the 2017-2018 academic year.

This series has concluded, but you are welcome to take part in a new series co-convened by Ayse Belger: Dual Impact of COVID-19 and Systemic Racism and Inequity on Children’s Developmental Trajectories in the Early Years: Interdisciplinary Conversations and Development of a Research-Policy Agenda.