Please just us for a Special Guest Lecture on October 22, 2025 by Dylan Gee, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory at Yale University.
Dr. Gee received her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California Los Angeles and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her lab’s research focuses on neurodevelopmental mechanisms of early experiences and risk for psychopathology in childhood and adolescence, with a translational focus to inform interventions and policy related to youth well-being. In addition to her lab’s research, she serves as a principal investigator at the Yale site of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Dr. Gee’s work has received broad recognition, including the American Psychological Association (APA)’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology, the Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association of Psychological Science, and the APA’s Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Children, Youth, and Families.
Environmental contexts can have a profound influence on brain and behavioral development. From trauma exposure to variation in the predictability of caregiving behaviors, the environments in which children and adolescents develop actively shape their neurodevelopment and mental health. Advances in developmental neuroscience have demonstrated how experiences of safety, predictability, and adversity influence the maturation of corticolimbic circuits in ways that confer risk or resilience for mental health disorders. This talk will illustrate how these insights from developmental neuroscience can inform efforts to optimize clinical interventions for anxiety and stress-related disorders in youth. Together, this work advances understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms that promote favorable mental health outcomes and guides approaches to foster recovery among youth exposed to adversity or living with psychiatric conditions.
This lecture will take place in person in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Auditorium.
For more information regarding this lecture, please contact Nathan Rockcastle at rockcastlenj@upmc.edu.
