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Presented By: Department of Psychology

Developmental Area Brown Bag: The Necessity and the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Developmental Science

Daniel Keating, Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics; Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

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Abstract:
​Leading edge research in developmental science increasingly requires a deeply interdisciplinary approach, integrating methods and findings from multiple levels: biological mechanisms including genetic, epigenetic, and neuroscience models; precise and replicable measurement of numerous developmental outcomes in domains from cognition to emotion to behavior to health; core features of social contexts as they are expressed in the lived experience of individuals; and population models that employ advanced survey techniques and well-categorized sampling approaches that include attention to diversity. As intellectually appealing and scientifically necessary as the turn to interdisciplinary models may be, it brings with it a host of challenges. Using two case studies from my current work – on the neurodevelopmental pathways to adolescent health risk behavior, and on the prenatal and early life factors that impact child development outcomes, from the ECHO national consortium (recently funded by NIEHS) – I will explore some of the prominent practical challenges, and a range of approaches to address them.

Bio:
Daniel Keating is Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics, and Research Professor at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, all at the University of Michigan. His published research covers a wide range of topics from epigenetics to population developmental health. His current R01 focuses on neurodevelopment and adolescent health risk behavior, and he is also a co-investigator on an NIEHS ECHO grant on prenatal exposures, child health outcomes, and underlying biodevelopmental mechanisms. Prior to coming to Michigan in 2004, he served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, the University of Maryland, and the University of Toronto, and as Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. From 1993-2003 he served as Director of the Human Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has edited or co-edited nine books, including Nature and Nurture in Early Child Development (in 2011 from Cambridge University Press), and is the author of Born Anxious: The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity – and How to Break the Cycle (forthcoming in April from St. Martin’s Press).
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