Kolejne Seminarium Kliniczne

Zapraszamy na trzecie spotkanie z serii seminariów klinicznych, które odbędzie się w formie zdalnej w dniu 29 lutego 2024 roku w godzinach 11:30 – 13:00 (czwartek).

Naszym gościem będzie profesor Livio Provenzi z Katedry Nauk o Mózgu i Zachowaniu Uniwersytetu w Pawii (University of Pavia), dyrektor Developmental Psychobiology Lab (dpd lab) przy Istituto Neurologico Nazionale a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Fondazione Mondino.

Temat wystąpienia to Seamless: The psychobiological superpowers of parenting in research and clinical settings [Szwów nie widać. Psychobiologiczne supermoce rodzicielskie w badaniach i warunkach klinicznych]. Po wykładzie przewidujemy około 15-30 minut na dyskusję. Link do spotkania znajduje się TUTAJ.

Early experiences involving the parent-child system – especially those related to the first thousand days from conception – have the ability to modify the neurobiological processes that regulate the socio-emotional and cognitive development of the child, as well as the well-being of the parents. The effect of these experiences is clearly dependent on the high gradient of neuroplasticity that characterizes the early stages of development, thanks to epigenetic regulation mechanisms of DNA that are particularly susceptible to environmental influences. Behavioral epigenetic studies conducted in the last two decades have begun to provide initial data useful for the emergence of a development model in which the distinction between genetics and environment, predispositions, and caregiving contexts increasingly appears as an awkward forced separation. At the time, early experiences are inherently interactive and relational in nature and presuppose the presence of an adult dancing in rhythm with the child. Current advances in neuroscience now allow us – through methodological paradigms defined as "hyperscanning" – to observe, quantify, and understand the processes of interactive co-regulation that occur not only at the behavioral level but also at the brain level. Recent studies, in fact, make use of advanced methods to study the electroencephalographic activity of parent and child while they interact in natural contexts, offering an unprecedented insight into early micro-adjustments and their effects – whether protective or risky – on developmental outcomes and well-being. Provocatively, it is then possible to wonder whether it is worth constructing a model of developmental neuroscience that sees the parent child system as the privileged unit of analysis, considering the human being as a primarily bi-brained animal, intrinsically wired to be in interaction: born to be wired. Such an epistemological model could guide a more decisive transition of services dealing with child well- being towards a family-centered approach. In this perspective, if it is true that early experiences are a context of biological and relational learning, taking care of children would no longer be possible without truly taking parents seriously: their experiences, their representations, their needs.

Livio Provenzi is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and researcher, Associate Professor at the University of Pavia (Italy), where he teaches Developmental Psychobiology and Developmental Psychopathology. He is the director of the Developmental Psychobiology Lab (dpb lab) at the IRCCS Mondino Foundation in Pavia, Italy. His research activities integrate infant research methodologies with neuroendocrine, neurophysiological, and epigenetic biomarker to unveil the processes of parent-infant intersubjectivity in typical development and developmental risk conditions. Author of more than 130 articles in international scientific journals, he published “Developmental Human Behavioral Epigenetics” for Elsevier in 2020 and “Family-centered care in childhood disability” for Springer in 2023. He is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Pediatric Psychology and Associate Editor for Infant Behavior and Development.