UD's Schwarz to speak in Psychological and Brain Sciences colloquium series

9:35 a.m., May 7, 2015--Jaclyn Schwarz, assistant professor in the University of Delaware’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, will speak as part of the department’s 2015 colloquium series from 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, in Room 114 Gore Hall.

The talk, “Impact of Early-Life Immune Activation on Later-Life Brain and Behavior,” is free and open to the public.

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Schwarz is a behavioral neuroscientist. Her research focuses on understanding how events that occur during development impact later-life brain function and behavior, particularly via their influence on the neuroimmune and neuroendocrine systems.

One of her research projects tests the hypothesis that boys may be more vulnerable than girls to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, ADHD, schizophrenia and cerebral palsy because of the increased numbers of microglia, or resident immune cells, in the brain that may make boys vulnerable to early life events that impact the immune system.