Psychological and Brain Sciences Colloquium: Dr. Alexandra Moussa-Tooks
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The Anomalous Body and Psychosis Risk: A Biopsychosocial Model
Bodily disturbances have long been identified is schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and serve as important early disease markers. Understanding how psychosis may be rooted in early changes in the body (physically and perceptually) and how bodily disturbances may drive symptomology is critical for understanding the disorder. Dr. Moussa-Tooks will review two new lines of her work: First, using puberty as a model period of bodily change, she will show that pubertal development is associated with psychotic-like experiences supported by changes in bodily hormones and the brain. Second, she will describe new work linking changes in the perception of the body during puberty to the emergence of anomalous experience and psychosis risk. Dr. Moussa-Tooks will end by reviewing next steps, including building a more robust biopsychosocial model and considering how these findings support what we know and what we have yet to learn about intervention.
Dr. Alexandra Moussa-Tooks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington.