Prenatal Sleep Health & Anxiety Disorders | Claudia Lugo Candelas

Claudia Lugo-Candelas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, presents “Prenatal Sleep Health: An Untapped Intervention Target for the Intergenerational Prevention of Mood and Anxiety Disorders” at the Science & Innovation Symposium, sponsored by Rogers Behavioral Health, as part of One Mind’s 29th Music Festival for Brain Health, held on September 9, 2023 at the Staglin Family Vineyard.

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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can have a lasting negative impact that may extend to the next generation. Poor gestational sleep can confer additional negative effects on a child’s neurodevelopment– making the sleep-ACE connection a cycle of increased risk for psychiatric illness. By examining alterations to prenatal melatonin secretion as the mediator between ACEs and poor maternal sleep in the Latinx population, Dr. Lugo-Candelas seeks to identify how ACEs are passed on. Her discoveries will provide targets for mental health interventions.

CLAUDIO LUGO-CANDELAS – BIO
Claudia Lugo-Candelas, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the perinatal programming of risk and resilience for psychiatric disorders and the Bender-Fishbein Scholar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She obtained a B.A. from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division in 2018. Dr. Lugo-Candelas’ overarching research interest is to better understand the early development of inhibitory control difficulties, particularly as they increase risk for psychiatric disorders in children. She is particularly committed to understanding the exposures and experiences that are most relevant to communities that are minoritized, underserved, and underrepresented. Her lab uses several techniques to answer their research questions, including developmental neuroimaging (starting in utero), biomarker, and behavioral techniques and is funded by the NIH and NARSAD. At the heart of her mission is the strongly held belief that diversity and equity are indispensable to the development of sound science and public health.

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