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SUMMARY:Visitors Talk: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang\, University of Southern 
 California
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DESCRIPTION:Mary Helen Immordino-Yang\, University of Southern California
 \nHosted by Solange Denervaud\, CIBM Flagship Project Officer\, we are ple
 ased  to invite you to attend the CIBM Visitors Talk on April 24th at 13:
 00 CEST by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang from the University of Southern Calif
 ornia who will be sharing on “Longitudinal neurodevelopmental correlates
  of mid-adolescents’ psychosocial processing: A path to young adult well
 being?”.\n\nAbstract\nCombining open-ended interviews (outside the scann
 er) with structural\, trial-by-trial\, and resting-state functional MRI ne
 uroimaging\, we examined real-time functional neural dynamics underlying d
 iverse urban mid-adolescents’ cognitive and emotional engagement with co
 mpelling social stories at two time-points\, two years apart. We found tha
 t the patterns of longitudinal change in neural network dynamics predicted
  psychosocial outcomes five years later in young adulthood.\nWe found that
  “transcendent thinking” – seeing situations not just in terms of X 
 happened to person A\, which makes me feel thusly\, but in terms of the la
 rger societal and contextual forces that shaped how Person A was treated a
 nd how Person A reacted\, the broader implications and lessons one can dra
 w from that situation\, and the larger issues it exemplifies or reveals—
 correlated with a particular set of neural activity dynamics and predicted
  future structural and functional neural development across the subsequent
  two years\, controlling for the starting state of neural development\, an
 d independent of IQ and SES. Transcendent thinking also countered negative
  effects of exposure to community violence on structural brain development
 .\nThe neural development predicted by transcendent thinking (the changes 
 in the brain across the 2-year period) in turn predicted young adult ident
 ity strength\, self-liking\, relationship satisfaction\, and achievement 5
  years later.\nThese findings reveal a novel predictor of neural developme
 nt across mid-adolescence\, and underscore the active role adolescents pla
 y in their own brain development through the meaning they make of the soci
 al world. Implications for secondary education and pedagogy will be discus
 sed.\n\n 
LOCATION:CH F1 614 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CH%20F1%20614 https://epfl.
 zoom.us/meeting/register/J9fJmYSQStOHtZMlxhTgaw
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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