Robert Sapolsky – Learn from the Masters: The Neuroscience of Stress, Depression and Developmental Trauma: Connect Physiology to Psychology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky

Outline

• What Does Biology Have to do With It?
  • The Nature of Stress and the Stress Response
    • The nature of stress
    • Homeostasis
    • The dichotomy between short-term and long-term stress exposure
    • The stress response
    • Hormones and autonomic pathways
    • How the long-term stress response impacts the brain and body
• Clinical Manifestations of Chronic Stress in Your Clients
  • Impaired declarative memory
  • Vulnerability to anxiety and fear conditioning
  • Impaired executive functioning
  • Impaired empathy
• The Interplay of Stress, Depression and
• Developmental Trauma
  • The Neurochemistry and Neuroanatomy of Stress, Depression and Childhood Adversity
    • How and why stress becomes depression
    • Neurobiological mechanisms
    • The psychological components of stress
    • Learned helplessness as a model for depression
    • Stress as a bridge linking the biological and psychological features of depression
    • The genetics of affective resilience in the face of stress
    • Childhood adversity as a risk factor
    • How traumatic stress shifts the trajectory of brain development
    • Clinical implications
• Connecting Biology to Psychology in Your Clinical Practice: An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Sweeton
  • When is stress good?
  • How can neurobiology help you to determine treatment methods and set goals?
  • Coping with stress – social isolation vs. social affiliation
  • Techniques that impact stress pathways, the stress response and the brains limbic regions
  • Strategies to create resilient brains that are less susceptible to stress-based damage
  • Gratitude interventions for stress and depression