Allan Schore

Alan SchoreAllan Schore, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Editor, Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology

BIO: Dr. Allan Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is author of three seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, as well as numerous articles and chapters. He is Editor of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, and a reviewer or on the editorial staff of 35 journals across a number of scientific and clinical disciplines. Dr. Schore’s activities as a clinician-scientist span from his theoretical work on the enduring impact of early trauma on brain development, to neuroimaging research on the neurobiology of attachment and studies of borderline personality disorder, to his biological studies of relational trauma in wild elephants, and to his practice of psychotherapy over the last 4 decades.

Presentation Title and Description:

Neurobehavioral Development of Young Children: Neuroscience and Early Trauma

A large body of experimental and clinical data now indicates that early trauma specifically impacts the later capacities of the right brain and its connections into the limbic and autonomic nervous system to implicitly regulate an array of affective and motivational states, including pain states. Dr. Schore will describe the mechanisms by which overwhelming experiences impact the developing brain and mind, including the characterological use of the bottom-line defense of dissociation.

At the completion of this presentation, the participant will understand:

  1. How current neuroscience is exploring relational trauma and its enduring impact on right brain functions.
  2. How this data is being incorporated into updated models of psychopathogenesis and defense mechanism.
  3. The interpersonal neurobiology of pathological dissociation.