HBES 2027

Session

Mental Health

12 May 2027, 09:00

VMMC

Conveners

Mental Health: Mental Health 1

• Edward Hagen (Washington State University)

Mental Health: Mental Health 2

• Edward Hagen (Washington State University)

1. Depression is not a disoder

Prof. Edward Hagen (Washington State University)

12/05/2027, 09:00

Cognition

Podium

Major depression is considered to be a pathological response to stress that elicits aversive responses towards depressed individuals. Alternatively, depression might involve honest signals of need in response to stress and help to bargain for increased support from reluctant others. To test this hypothesis, we examined responses to a wide range of emotional signals in a vignette study in...

6. Depression IS a disorder!

Randy Nesse (Michigan)

12/05/2027, 09:20

Podium

Depression is bad and therefore a disorder

4. Objective and subjective measures of stress in Latinx immigrants before and after the 2016 presidential election: hair cortisol, epigenetics, and mental health

Prof. Elizabeth Clausing (Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego), Dr Kimberly D'Anna-Hernandez (Department of Psychology, California State University, San Marcos)

12/05/2027, 13:00

Cognition

Podium

Immigrants have faced high burdens of stress since long before the current administration’s anti-immigrant policies. This study is an investigation of how immigration-related stress may impact the biology and health of Latinx immigrant mothers and children, considering recent increases in divisive rhetoric and anti-immigrant policies in the U.S. We compared hair cortisol and DNA methylation at...