Please join us! This hybrid seminar will take via Zoom with an in-person option for CUID holders.  Zoom registration is required at the link below. For more information or to join our mailing list, please contact Caitlin Hawke at [email protected].

Energy, Mitochondrial Psychobiology, and Human Health
Martin Picard, PhD
Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Psychiatry and Neurology)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022, 1PM-2PM ET

In person (for CUID holders): Hess Commons, 722 West 168th Street
Via Zoom, register here: tinyurl.com/CACMartin

Abstract: Optimizing health and human potential across the lifespan is a shared goal among the biomedical and public health sciences. However, we lack a complete framework to adequately measure and enhance human health. Recognizing the life-sustaining role that energy plays in the human body has brought us to focus on mechanisms of energy transformation within our cells – in the mitochondria. Moreover, human lives are moved by interdependent psychological experiences and molecular-biological processes, which together shape the human experience. This presentation will describe how the developing field of Mitochondrial Psychobiology provides an opportunity to advance the science of health.