Brain Development, Childhood adversity, Sex differences | Research Digest with Rafiad Islam | S2E4

04/09/2025 56 min Temporada 2 Episodio 4

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In this episode of the Research Digest Podcast, we discussed the article titled “Early adversitycauses sex-specific deficits in perforant pathway connectivity and contextual memory in adolescent mice”, published in Biology of Sex Differences Journal (Volume: 15, Article number: 39) in 2024 by BMC/Springer Nature. We talked with the leading author, Dr. Rafiad Islam, about the backgroundof the research work, major findings, and future perspectivesYOUTUBE LINKGUEST INTRODUCTIONRafiad Islam, PhDAssociate Research Scientist,Yale School of Medicine ARTICLE LINK  TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Introduction01:45 – Author’s career journey06:35 – Early life adversity and related studies19:49 – Starting of the project and initial experiments28:10 – Other main findings of the study44:40 – A challenging part of the study 47:23 – Why do men and women differ in terms of development?51:20 – Future directions of the study53:54 – Take home message

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