Dear Colleagues,

On Friday, February 19th, the McGill Psychology Department will be hosting Dr. Daniel Klein, distinguished professor of Clinical Psychology at Stony Brook University, who will deliver a Hebb Lecture at 3.30pm in MCMED 504.

Dr. Klein is currently a professor at Stony Brook University with joint appointments in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. Dr. Klein obtained his Ph.D. in 1983 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and is currently a distinguished professor of clinical psychology at Stony Brook University. Dr. Klein is interested in developmental psychopathology and adult psychopathology, particularly mood disorders in children, adolescents, and adults. His research explores the intergenerational transmission of depression; the roles of temperament and emotional reactivity, and early adversity in the development and course of mood disorders; the long-term course and continuity of mood disorders; the classification of mood disorders; comorbidity between depression and other disorders; and the psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatment of depressive disorders.

About: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/psychology/faculty/faculty_bio_pages/dklei...

Title: A Natural Disaster as a Test of Personality and Neural Diathesis-Stress Models in Children and Mothers

Abstract: Natural disasters provide an unfortunate “natural experiment” in which to examine the role of a discrete stressor that is independent of individual’s behavior in exacerbating pre-existing vulnerabilities to psychological symptoms. During the course of an ongoing longitudinal study of young children in Long Island, New York, Hurricane Sandy struck the region. Using information on individual differences collected before the hurricane, we were able to examine the effects of exposure to the disaster on changes in children’s and mothers’ symptoms. I will present data on the effects of child temperament and maternal personality, and an event-related potential (ERP) measure of children’s processing of emotionally salient information on changes in symptoms as a function of exposure to the disaster. In addition, I will examine the effects of hurricane-related stress on changes in ERP measures of children’s processing of reward and threat, and how these changes are moderated by parents’ promotion- and prevention-oriented parenting styles.

Following the lecture, everyone is invited to join us for a wine-and-cheese reception in the lobby of the 8th floor of the Stewart Biology Building.

Please feel free to circulate this notice widely.

Best,

Anna

Anna Weinberg

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology

McGill University

Stewart Biology Building, Office W8/33A

514-398-4672

1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue

Montreal, Quebec

H3A 1B1

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