Dr Robbie Duschinsky, head of the Applied Social Science Group at the Cambridge Primary Care Unit, invites you to
the Inaugural Annual Symposium of the Group
‘Evolutionary hypotheses and early human development: findings from the Wirral Child Health and Development Study’
with
Jonathan Hill, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Reading
Monday, 10th Oct 2016 at 14:00 to 16:00
Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR
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This event will be of particular interest to researchers and clinicians interested in human health and development, gender and mental illness, and the application of psychology and sociology to public health and clinical medicine as well as those interested in evolution, biology and behaviour. Organised with the Public Health@Cambridge Network.
Chair: Ann Louise Kinmonth, Emeritus Professor of General Practice, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John’s College where she chairs the Inequalities in Health Reading Group
Discussant: Michael Lamb, Professor of Psychology, Cambridge University; Fellow of Sidney Sussex College
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Abstract
“Why do boys more often suffer more from early onset neurodevelopmental and behavioural problems, and girls from adolescent onset emotional disorders? The prevailing view is that this is because boys are exposed to more early risks and girls to later ones, and not because the risks or mechanisms are different across the sexes. Many animal and human studies point in a different direction, and so do evolutionary hypotheses. I will discuss how the ‘Sex Biased Parental Investment’ and the ‘Predictive Adaptive Response’ hypotheses jointly imply very different mechanisms in males and females, and illustrate with recent findings from our longitudinal study. I will bring out the clinical and NHS planning implications if these results are robust. If there is time I will briefly outline my domains theory of social interactions, with its evolutionary origins, and therapeutic implications”.
Jonathan Hill, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Reading
There are three main strands to Professor Hill’s research, first the investigation of the long term consequences of childhood adversities for mental health and social functioning, second the development of novel conceptualizations of processes in development and psychopathology leading to new measures and treatment, and third attempting to understand more generally the nature of causal processes in the mind.
Studies of the consequences of childhood experiences have included investigations of adult outcomes following child maltreatment and childhood cancer together with Bridget Young and Peter Salmon in Liverpool and Tim Eden in Edinburgh, and outcomes in childhood of children with cleft lip and palate together with Lynne Murray in Reading. Since 2007, together with Helen Sharp in Liverpool and Andrew Pickles at King’s College London, Professor Hill has led the Wirral Child Health and Development Study, the longitudinal study of a cohort of first time mothers recruited during pregnancy to investigate foetal and infancy origins of child and ultimately adult psychopathology.
See more: https://www.reading.ac.uk/Psychology/About/staff/j-hill.aspx
About the Applied Social Science Group
The Applied Social Science Group was established in 2016 within the Primary Care Unit and is led by Dr Robbie Duschinsky. The group provides a forum for research drawing on the social sciences to offer insights into patient experiences, contexts and health behaviours.
More about the Group: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/research/research-groups/applied-social-science-group/