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Discovery Series: “Trapped in Thought: Understanding Depression and Trauma Through the Brain”

The NextGen Precision Health Discovery Series provides learning opportunities for UM System faculty and staff across disciplines, the statewide community and our other partners to learn about the scope of precision health research and identify potential collaborative opportunities. The series consists of monthly lectures geared toward a broad multidisciplinary audience so all can participate and appreciate the spectrum of precision health efforts.
For questions about this event or any others in the Discovery Series, please reach out to Mackenzie Lynch.

November 18  •  11:30am
Event
Discovery Series: “Trapped in Thought: Understanding Depression and Trauma Through the Brain”

Dr. Carissa L. Philippi earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Iowa in 2011. She then completed a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she conducted neuroimaging (i.e., resting-state fMRI) and behavioral studies on self-related thought in brain injured patients, psychiatric patient populations, and psychopathic prison inmates.

Broadly, her research aims to understand the brain circuits underlying self-related processes, in both the healthy and dysfunctional brain (e.g., psychiatric illness). Self-related processing is essential for normal social and emotional functioning. For example, self-reflection helps individuals to generate social emotions (e.g., guilt) necessary for upholding social norms and forming social relationships. By contrast, a number of psychiatric and neurological conditions are associated with alterations in self-processing (i.e., excessive rumination in depression or diminished self-reflection in patients with medial prefrontal cortex damage) that can have detrimental consequences for our overall well-being.

Dr. Philippi's research involves fMRI, psychophysiology, and a variety of behavioral paradigms to study different types of self-related processing—such as self-reflection and self-agency—with healthy subjects and psychiatric patient populations.



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Behavioral and Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Community Health, Health, Health and Life Sciences, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Equity Institute, Health Sciences District, Medical Engineering, Medicine, Mental Health, MU College Of Arts And Science, MU School Of Medicine’s Department Of Neurology, MU University Student Health Center, Public Health, S&T College Of Arts, Sciences, And Education, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and Health Studies, School Of Science And Engineering, Science, UMKC School Of Education, Social Work, And Psychological Sciences, UMKC School Of Humanities And Social Sciences, UMKC School of Medicine, UMKC School Of Nursing And Health Studies

Date

  
Tuesday, November 18  •  11:30am

Contact

Mackenzie Lynch
  lynchmm@umsystem.edu
  https://www.umsystem.edu/nextgen/events/november-18-2025-carissa-philippi-umsl

Location

  17 Arnold B Grobman Dr, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA
  Online

More Information

https://www.umsystem.edu/nextgen/events/november-18-2025-carissa-philippi-umsl

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