Anxiety disorders may be as pervasive a condition as depression, yet they are still not as widely discussed as depression. As part of The Agenda’s Mental Health Matters coverage, we’ll examine the research around anxiety disorders and the best treatments being used today.
The University of Missouri-Columbia hosted the UM System Road to Resilience – Disaster to Social and Environmental Resilience Summit on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. This research summit showcased interdisciplinary work from all four UM System universities and provided a forum to stimulate systemwide collaboration and innovation around recovering from and preparing for disasters. Presentations include topics such as transportation and planning response to natural disasters; counseling children who have been exposed to trauma or adversity; the human dimensions of disaster prevention; and emergency and disaster planning and policy.
Learning how to cope with adversity is an important part of healthy development. While moderate, short-lived stress responses in the body can promote growth, toxic stress is the strong, unrelieved activation of the body’s stress management system in the absence of protective adult support. Without caring adults to buffer children, the unrelenting stress caused by extreme poverty, neglect, abuse, or severe maternal depression can weaken the architecture of the developing brain, with long-term consequences for learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.This video is part three of a three-part series titled “Three Core Concepts in Early Development” from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. The series depicts how advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics now give us a much better understanding of how early experiences are built into our bodies and brains, for better or for worse. Healthy development in the early years provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities, and successful parenting of the next generation.Also from the “Three Core Concepts in Early Development” Series1. Experiences Build Brain Architecture: http://youtu.be/VNNsN9IJkws2. Serve & Return Interaction Shapes Brain Circuitry: http://youtu.be/m_5u8-QSh6AFor more information, please visit: http://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/multimedia/videos/three_core_concepts/