CONTE CENTER

We are striving to understand how the constantly evolving environment that infants and young children experience in our modern and chaotic world influences the structural and functional maturation of the brain. These changes, in turn, may increase the vulnerability of children, adolescents, and adults to several mental illnesses. We investigate if chaos and unpredictability of parental and environmental signals to the developing brain impact its normal maturation processes... To enable discoveries and enhance their impact, UC Irvine's Conte Center includes multidisciplinary teams studying cohorts of individuals from fetal life to adulthood, including military veterans. We employ cutting edge tools in experimental models, including epigenomics, viral-transgenic mapping and manipulation as well as in vivo imaging across species. These are integrated via our neuroimaging and computational cores... The Conte Center @ UCI addresses how established and novel early-life adversities..

Primary location: Irvine United States