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Appendix A: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix A: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 139-142
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J Casey, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at Yale University and an adjunct professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, where she holds appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and an adjunct appointment at The Rockefeller University.
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Board of Scientific Counselors and NIMH Council; the Scientific Advisory Board for NARSAD; the Advisory Board for the Human Connectome Project -- Life Span Study; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board of Children, Youth, and Families; and the National Academies committees on the science of adolescent risk taking, assessing juvenile justice reform, and sports-related concussions in youth. She has received funding from NIMH, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, the John Merck Fund, the Dana Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.
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McEwen produced a massive body of important work on the roles of steroid hormones in reproductive behavior, brain development, gene expression in the brain, brain plasticity in adulthood, and the effects of stress on age-related brain degeneration that causes cognitive deficits. As a neuroscientist and a neuroendocrinologist, he studied environ entally m regulated, variable gene expression in the brain mediated by circulating steroid hormones and endogenous neurotransmitters in relation to brain sexual differentiation and the actions of sex, stress, and thyroid hormones on the adult brain.
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. He directs the busy UCSF dementia center where patients in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond receive comprehensive clinical evaluations.
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