NURTURE AGAINST PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS 17 January 2006 –
PARENTING, NUTRITION AND PRIMAL CARE.
Our next conference is organised in conjunction with The International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM) and takes place on 17 January 2006. The conference, Generating Healthy Brains – Nutrients and Hormones in Development, will discuss the newly realised relationship between nutrition (building blocks, development and maintenance of the brain), emotions & psychology (the subsequent behaviour of that now ‘developed’ or possibly ‘under-developed’ or poorly supplied brain). As sometimes the latter is sadly the case, we are looking at what in the quaint language of evolution science in the previous century would have been called examples of ‘non-adaptive’ evolution.
This will be the first major discussion melding these two disciplines since the completion of the genome map, whilst also considering the potential quantum link between substrate (environment), ecology, nutrition, cell, DNA, organism and the higher faculties.
Psychology and Nutrition seldom meet, let alone with Genomics, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Endocrinology and Biochemistry. Can coordinating care from life’s beginning achieve most for mental health?
Context – The way our brains develop could be the greatest factor affecting our lives individually and socially. Mental and cardiovascular disorders are nearing the top of global disease. These are part of metabolic syndrome X, which also includes diabetes and obesity. They constitute a bigger burden of disease than HIV/AIDS.
Object of the conference –
To present molecular research and experience through psychiatry and psychotherapy, revealing the serious effects of current lifestyle on brain development.
To consider how to oppose these trends and promote the generation of healthy brains.
Outcome – A grasp of the chain of processes contributing to mental illness. An integrated picture of lifestyles and foods imperative for health that can be networked to:
both health professionals and the public for their self-protection
government and health services
agricultural and food industries
CONFERENCE -17 January 2006
The International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM)
The McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health
Venue: the Innholders’ Hall, 30 College Street, Dowgate Hill, London, EC4R 2RH (next to Cannon St Station)
1. Introduction – Nutrients, nurture and the brain 09.00– Common ground of two societies.
Michael Crawford
Ludwig Janus
2. Genomic imprinting in development
– overview
– by emotions/hormones, affecting cortical, limbic, olfactory brain regions.
Barry Keverne
3. – by nutrients; and effects of nutrition on
– oocyte, sperm, fertilisation
– neural plate/tube relating to brain
– subsequent brain growth. (To be confirmed)
4. Nutrient depletion in field and factory. David Thomas
Discussion of 2,3,4
Coffee
5. Diet, evolutionary and contemporary Deficit, growth retardation and associated disorder
– epidemiology and practical psychiatry
Joe Hibbeln
6. Child and adolescent mental states related to brain development.
– brain scans: structure and activity.
– identifying causes, designing treatment
(To be confirmed)
7. Nutritional supplements in school and prison (To be confirmed)
Discussion of 5,6,7
Lunch
8. From tribal life to civilisation’s sedentary, solo-parent, hi-tech medic.
– changes in nurture, anatomy, gestation, birth and medicine.
Ludwig Janus
9. – Responding to key psychosocial adversities with ‘New Parenting’, pre- & perinatal care, psychotherapy
Terence Dowling
Discussion of 8,9
Tea
10. Lifecycle understanding to protect childbearing, development, health. Integral practice/education for
– infant, child, adolescent, parent-potential
– professionals in health, education, politics/religion, Towards psychobiological health and psychosocial peace.
(To be confirmed)
Antonella Sansone
Kate Start
Break
11. Discussion – What do we need to do?
17.15 -18.00
M. Crawford,
L. Janus
18.15 Networking supper
£125 Industry and Government,
£75 Private
£50 McCarrison Society or ISPPM members.
Sandwich lunch, networking supper included.
Bookings £20 extra after 16 December 2005 – space limited.
Book now to avoid disappointment!