3rd FinnBrain International Congress

PRENATAL AND EARLY LIFE STRESS – IMPLICATIONS FOR LATER CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH

Accumulating evidence is showing that both prenatal and early postnatal stress is related to a wide variety of child outcomes. Recently also the possibility of epigenetic inheritance of stress related phenotypes across generations has been put forward. To gain greater understanding of this topic we started planning a new birth cohort in Turku, Finland 15 years ago.  The first subjects were recruited to the Cohort in 2011, preceded by a pilot study in 2010.

Now FinnBrain Birth Cohort is organizing the third international congress on this topic. We have invited several international well-known researchers who have been working with us or who are internationally well known authorities in the field as key-note speakers. Additionally, many FinnBrain researchers will present exciting new findings from their studies.