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Speaker: Anderson Johnson, PhD
Professor and Dean
Claremont Graduate University School of Community and Global Health
Time: 14:00pm-15:30pm
Date: Dec 12, 2011 (Mon)
Venue: Lecture Hall, North Building
Abstract: Brain development in adolescence and early adulthood shapes the potential for risky and addictive behaviors including cigarette smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, and eating. In a series of experimental epidemiologic and laboratory studies we have identified several neurocogntive factors that serve as risk factors for accelerated trajectories in dysfunctional appetitive behavior. Furthermore, some of these factors appear to predispose individuals to greater receptivity to prevention and control interventions. Among these are depression, impulsivity, and hostility. Especially implicated are neural systems that regulate affective decisions, or choices made under emotional arousal. This lecture summarizes the results of these studies carried out in the U.S, and China and suggests a new personalized or individualized approach to public health wherein interventions are delivered via new media (cell phones, iPads, etc.) targeted to individual neurocognitive and psychological characteristics and in response to immediate environmental circumstances.
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