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Speakers
Millie Rincon-Cortes, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience at UT Dallas
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Dr. Rincón-Cortés leads the Developmental and Maternal Neurobiology Lab at UT Dallas, a developmental behavioral neuroscience lab that studies how exposure to adversity compromises behavioral and brain function throughout the lifespan. Her team is particularly interested in maternal adversity exposure because the postpartum period is a time of increased risk for affective dysregulation in women and because postpartum adversity is known to disrupt maternal behavior and have adverse consequences for offspring development.
Her research interests include normative and adversity-induced plasticity of reward and mesolimbic dopamine function, emphasis on early development and the postpartum period.
Frontiers of BrainHealth is a hybrid speaker series. Register for the season, and you will get a link to the virtual talks as well as available recordings. If you are interested in attending any of the talks in person, please note that you can confirm attendance when we send you a reminder email a few days prior to each talk.
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Originally from Puerto Rico, Dr. Rincón-Cortés was first exposed to neuroscience through a physiological psychology course during her junior year at the UPR-RUM (The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus or Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez) because it sounded fun. She became fascinated by the brain and moved to New York City to pursue a PhD in neuroscience (2015) under the mentorship of Dr. Regina Sullivan at NYU and completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Anthony Grace at the University of Pittsburgh. Her lab aims to characterize normative and adversity-induced adaptations in reward-related behaviors and dopamine function throughout development. Outside the lab, she enjoys cooking, reading at breweries, dance nights, Pilates, tending to her many plants, spending time with her cat Fausto, and going on hikes/road trips.
Watch select recordings below.
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