16th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting

Session

Keynote 1 (streamed session)

24 Sept 2025, 09:30

Innere Medizin/2-0 - Hörsaal 22 (Sauerbruchweg 2)

Conveners

Keynote 1 (streamed session): Neurobiological Consequences of Early-Life Stress: From Mechanisms to Novel Approaches for the Developmental Programming of Lifelong Health

• Maximilian von Heyden (FINDER and Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
• Gregor Burkhart (Principal Scientific Analyst for Prevention, Public Health Unit, European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA), President of the EUSPR (2022-2025))
• Klaus M. Beier (Director, Institute of Sexuology and Sexual Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

314. Neurobiological Consequences of Early-Life Stress: From Mechanisms to Novel Approaches for the Developmental Programming of Lifelong Health

Prof. Christine Heim (Director, Institute of Medical Psychology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

24/09/2025, 09:30

Oral presentation

Adversity in early life, such as childhood abuse, neglect and loss, during times of developmental plasticity can cause lifelong neurobiological changes that leave the individual vulnerable to subsequent maladaptation and at markedly heightened risk to develop a broad spectrum of diseases. Understanding mechanisms and trajectories of biological embedding across development, as well as their...