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    Emerging Topics in Psychiatry

    APA presents the Emerging Topics Webinar Series—learning opportunities analyzing the critical challenges faced in the profession and offering practical solutions from subject matter experts.

    New APA learning opportunities dedicated to keeping members up-to-date on important topics and the latest trends and information impacting the profession. Interact with your peers and subject matter experts. Topics are diverse, covering clinical practice updates, emerging psychedelic use, burnout and physician well-being, new legislation impacting your practice and patients, innovative technology and more.

    Upcoming Webinar

    Unseen Consequences: Research Linking Childhood Trauma & Epigenetics

    •  Wednesday, January 29
    •  1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET
    •  1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ **
    •  Stacy Drury, M.D.

    The established link between exposure to early life adversity and trauma, including exposure to violence and racism, with lasting behavioral and physical health risks raises important scientific questions about the processes through which these experiences result in later risk. While original models suggested that a significant proportion of risk might be attributable to health risk behaviors or lifestyle choices, it is increasingly evident that the biological processes, including epigenetic changes, contribute to the underlying pathways leading to later risk across health outcomes. This course will provide an overview of epigenetics and discuss current and developing methodologies with critical attention to the challenges and promises of epigenetic studies. Next this course will describe the current evidence linking epigenetic changes, specifically DNA methylation, epigenetic aging, telomeres and histone modification, and childhood trauma. Lastly this course will discuss future directions of research that is expected to demonstrate mechanisms and provide potential next steps to evaluate the impact of evidence-based interventions on not only behavioral but biological pathways.

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    Previous Webinars

    Watch the following webinars on demand in the APA Learning Center:

    For past emerging topics webinars and other educational content, visit the APA Learning Center at education.psychiatry.org.

    Other past topics include:

    • What Happens When the Public Health Emergency Ends? Telepsychiatry and Hybrid Practice Post-PHE
    • Evaluation, Management, Coding, and Documentation – What All Psychiatrists in Clinical Practice Need to Know
    • Facing the Hard Truths About Our Climate Disaster– Psychiatry's Role in Preparing society to accept a necessary shift in the Cultural Paradigm
    • The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Child Mental Health Crisis: What We Can Do Now
    • Heat Waves and Wildfires for the Practicing Psychiatrist: What you need to know to protect your patients and community
    • Denial: Nuclear Trauma and the Cold War Psychiatry in Hiroshima
    • Psychedelics as Therapeutics for Substance Use Disorders

    Accreditation

    **The American Psychiatric Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The APA designates this enduring CME activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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