Media Advisory: Douglas Institute hosts international conference looking at impact and interventions - January 28 to 30, 2009 

The stress caused by living through cataclysmic events such as tsunamis, ice storms or severe floods, may have far reaching mental health implications, especially for pregnant women and their children.

Join us at an international conference, held next week at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, to find out the consequences of climate change on brain development and how we can adapt. The over-reaching goal of the conference is to develop a plan for how best to conduct research on pregnant women during natural disasters, so that appropriate interventions can be implemented.

Experts will be discussing the latest information about the effects of: 

• Prenatal maternal stress on the fetus; Jan. 28 
• Prenatal maternal stress on brain development in animals and humans; Jan.29 
• Disasters impact on populations, in particular women and children; Jan.30

You are also invited to attend a press briefing summarizing the conference highlights on January 30.

CONFERENCE
When: January 28 to 30, 2009. 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Douglas Institute, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion, 6875 LaSalle Blvd., Montreal

PRESS BRIEFING
When: January 30, 2009. 12 to 1 p.m.
Where: Douglas Institute, Bowerman Room, Dobell Pavilion, 6875 LaSalle Blvd., Montreal