On Wednesday 26th August the pPOD team will be at the Science Museum lates event presenting on early parent-infant interactions and attachment.

The theme this month is Childhood, with a variety of talks, stalls, activities and games to both take you back to your childhood and hear a little bit more about the science behind it. Entry is free and the event starts at 18:45 and runs until 22:00.

Event Information
 
Attention, big kids - join us at the Science Museum on Wednesday 26 August and step back into the wondrous world of childhood. Explore the scientific secrets of Doctor Who, uncover the meaning behind types of play and learn how the food your mum eats affects your tastes.
 
1. Paul Ramchandani’s talk: First love: do early parent-infant interactions shape our future? (19.30, 20.15 and 21.00)
Our early lives and relationship are important, but how important? Do they really mould us for life. Dr Paul Ramchandani will explore the place of these first loves.
 
2. Drop in: First loves, first attachments (all evening)
Where does our understanding of our attachments as babies come from? Take a peek at some of the original experiments with scientists from Imperial College.
 
For more information please see the guide below or visit the Science Museum website here.

Ellen Grimås and Paul Ramchandani have recently written a blog for the Mental Elf looking at modifiable partner factors associated with maternal anxiety and depression in the perinatal period - read the blog here. 

The latest pPOD blog post is written by Lauren Capron and is about the Begin Before Birth conference, held at Imperial College London. The blog post can be read here.

Congratulations to Lauren Capron who has been accepted to present her research  at the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) conference in September, and at the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) conference in November.

Jane Iles has written a new blog post about her recently published paper with Dr Helen Pote, exploring first-time mothers’ experiences of postnatal posttraumatic stress. The study aimed to use qualitative accounts to build a theoretical model of maternal trauma symptoms, which can be used to guide clinical understanding and intervention. 

You can read the full blog post here, and download the paper from the bottom of the page.

On the 5th June 2015 members of the pPOD team attended the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) annual conference and Jack Tizard memorial lecture. This conference focussed on the implementation of evidence-based prevention and treatment for child mental health disorders. 

Christine O'Farrelly and Dot King presented posters from the Healthy Start, Happy Start and ACORN study, respectively.