Hamida Ouled Slimane

Neuroscientist, Italy

Presentation Title:

Neuroscience and new research perspectives on violence as a risk factor in pregnancy

Abstract

More and more often, adolescents feel alone and misunderstood, leading them to fall into pathological addictions and develop emotional disorders or real psychiatric pathologies, sometimes even leading to suicide. The review by Esposito-Smythers and Goldston (2008) highlights that the presence of a substance use disorder is associated with a 3-4 fold increase in suicide attempts. Furthermore, adolescents who have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder are 5 to 13 times more likely to die by suicide than adolescents without this diagnosis (Kelly et al. 2001). In many cases, in fact, the origins of the discomfort date back to the period spent in their mother's womb and to the violence suffered by their mother. Domestic violence that occurs during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of perinatal death and neonatal death (Yost et al., 2005). Women who have been hospitalized for physical assault during pregnancy are eight times more likely to die from fetal death and nearly six times more likely to die from neonatal death (El Kady et al., 2005). In addition, domestic violence and continuous exposure to trauma are associated with increased intercurrences in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle. (Petrone et al., 2019). The Michigan State University study (2014) is among the first to highlight correlation between the abuse of pregnant women and symptoms of emotional and behavioral trauma in their children within the first year of life. Prenatal abuse could, therefore, be the cause of changes in the mother's stress response systems, increasing levels of the hormone cortisol, which in turn could increase cortisol levels in the fetus. Domestic violence against women during pregnancy can also have a significant impact on the brain development of the unborn child and a neuro-psycho-postural alteration. Hiscox et al. (2023). These changes could also partly explain the development of neurodevelopmental disorders and other psychiatric pathologies, recalling delinquent behaviors (such as pathological addictions) and criminological behaviors, degenerating the functioning of the "Locus Coeruleus, a brain nucleus which tends to be involved, when dysfunctional in neurodegenerative diseases, in the control of the limbic system". It is therefore important to act through a multidisciplinary scientific and social and integrated approach such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS is a neuromodulation technique that uses localized magnetic fields to easily modulate cortical excitability. It can stimulate or inhibit local cortical activity, depending on the application of high (> 5 Hz) or low (< 5 Hz) frequencies, respectively. These interventions have the advantage of not exposing the individual to the unwanted chemical effects of various substances and drugs, circumventing the cognitive side effects induced by drugs. These practices include different perspectives of analysis, in order to work on the neurophysiological-psychological causes of the individual.

Biography

Hamida Ouled Slimane is a Neuroscientist, Neurocriminologist, Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychopathologist expert in Integrated Medicine. She is a professor for a high-level training course in Criminology and the study of addictions. Founder and CEO of the scientific method and center "Gaudium" or the use of the multidisciplinary approach to clinical contexts. She is the President of the PSAF headquarters in France (Scientific Association of Insurance and Forensic Health Professionals recognized by the Ministry of Health), President of delegation (Association of Italian Sociologists, recognized by the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy) in Paris and member of AIPU (Italian Association of University Posturology), Honorary Researcher and International Chancellor Of Regional Scientific Directors in IFNLS (International Federation of Neurolegal Sciences) and member of IPO (International Police Organization, recognized by the UN). She is also committed to developing projects at an international level on scientific studies. She is a published author of a book belonging to the scientific chain: Neuromodulation in the Treatment of Addictions and numerous scientific studies: and developed a research study currently being published: The Correlation Between Psychiatric Disorders And Sld: A Study Towards New Research Perspectives.

3rd International Conference on Neuroscience and Mental Health

Hamida Ouled Slimane

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Neuroscience and new research perspectives on violence as a risk factor in pregnancy

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