The impact of trauma on the child’s developing brain and what we can do about it

Overview

In this live-stream presentation, Professor McCrory will discuss his amazing work on brain scanning children who have suffered from traumatic life experiences.

He is one of a team of researchers at UCL working to examine the impact on mental and physical trauma on developing brains and how this effects a child’s emotionality, behaviour, emotional regulation and perception. Children participate in the research play games while their brains are scanned. The magnets inside can detect subtle changes in the brain relating to traumatic experiences. Most importantly, Professor McCrory will then discuss prevention and intervention.

About the presenter

Professor Eamon McCrory

Eamon McCrory is a London-based scientist and clinical psychologist. He is Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology at University College London, where he Co-Directs the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit. He is a Programme Director and member of the Executive team at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, Director of UKRI’s programme on Adolescent Mental Health and Wellbeing, and Co-Director of the UK Trauma Council.

He is best known for his work investigating how changes in the brain during childhood can shed light on the link between adversity and mental health.