Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.

Dr. McEwen reports no commercial conflict of interest.

Release Date: 05/08/2002
Termination Date: 05/08/2005

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour(s).

Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Upon completion of this Cyberounds^®, the participant should be able to:

• Describe how the HPA axis is controlled by a number of extra-hypothalamic brain structures which have inputs to the hypothalamus
• Outline how individual differences in HPA activity arise in animal models from early-life experiences
• Discuss individual differences in "weathering", i.e., rate of aging of the human brain and show how they may parallel animal models.

 

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