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Mental ill-health / Brain-disorders now exceed all other burdens of ill-health, costing the EU a Staggering €386 billion! 1
A Cutting edge! Joint Conference on how nutrition, hormones and genomics are causing mental-ill health and affecting future generations
The McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health
together with
The International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology & Medicine (ISPPM)
Invite you to participate in this ground breaking debate
Generating Healthy Brains
on Tuesday 17 January 2006
Innholders’ Hall, 30 College Street, Dowgate Hill, London, EC4R 2RH
(next to Cannon St Station)
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Speakers include
Dr Joseph Hibbeln MD, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics and Biochemistry,
National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, USA – Cleave Award
The impact of deficiencies of omega-3 fats on homicide, suicide, depression and
greater risk of developmental trajectories towards lifelong psychopathy
Professor Barry Keverne, FRS, FMedSci, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
The significance of genomic imprinting for brain development and behaviour, and future generations
Dr Ludwig Janus MD – Conference President – ISPPM President 1995-2005, Heidelberg, Psychotherapy, Psychohistory,
From tribal life to civilisation’s sedentary, solo-parent life –
Contending with change in nurture, anatomy, gestation, birth and medicine
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Nutrients and hormones vitally affect each of our lives as they operate the switches on our genes, shaping our lifelong mental and physical health, at no time more powerfully than at conception and in early life. Speed of change, social, nutritional and environmental, is exceeding our evolutionary adaptability. We have to use our brains to remain a healthy race in today’s conditions, to stave off the pandemic of:
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Obesity – the visible tip of the iceberg – & diabetes
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cardiovascular disorders
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mental illness – the most damaging aspect
APPLY HERE or by post to Kate Start (McCarrison Society), 179 Friern Road, SE22 OBD
£125 | Industry and Government |
£75 | University, Charities, NHS, non-member |
£15 | Students -SORRY FULLY SUBSCRIBED AT PRESENT -please try again in a few days |
£50 | McCarrison or ISPPM members |
All bookings £20 extra after 31 Dec ‘05 (online only concession), space limited Lunch and Supper included |
1 EU Journal of Neurology, “Cost of Disorders of the Brain in Europe” vol 12, Suppl 1 pages 1-92, June 2005.
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