The Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto marks the 2022 edition of Italian Research Day in the World with a talk by Dr. Marco Battaglia (UofT / CAMH) on 28th April.
The talk will introduce the audience to the methods and approaches of Psychiatry as a field of Internal Medicine. It will briefly review how a broad array of biological and socio-cultural factors affect mental health during development, and it will apply some of this reasoning to the current COVID pandemic: how, and how much the Covid-related constraints may impact mental health.
Marco Battaglia, MD, is currently serving as a Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, and a Clinician Scientist at the Campbell Research Institute and Division of Child Youth and Emerging Adult Programme at CAMH, Toronto. He trained in Italy and in the USA and worked at several academic institutions in Europe and in North America.
He studies both general population and clinical samples by developmental, genetically-informative designs (e.g.twin cohorts, families, developmental cohorts). He employs quantitative intermediate phenotypes (ERPs, fMRI, respiratory challenges, etc.) to map functional traits en route between determinants and behavioural phenotypes. He also investigates early parental separation in man and animal via interspecific neurofunctional components relevant to gene-environment interplays, including epigenetic landscapes.
Highlighting the contribution of Italian researchers to international scientific efforts and promoting the dissemination of the results of their research is the goal of Italian Research Day in the World, established by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research in partnership with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Ministry of Health.
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