What genetics can tell us about how we engage with our worlds

In this talk, Professor Eley will provide a brief overview of the genetics of anxiety before moving on to examine the role of genetic factors in how people experience trauma and how respond to psychological treatment. She will then move on to describe efforts to use this information alongside other more traditionally examined risk factors to build models predicting outcomes.

Thalia Eley is Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics and Head of Department in the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London.

She leads the Emotional Development, Intervention and Treatment (EDIT) lab, and her work focuses on the interplay between genetic and environmental factors in the development and treatment of anxiety and depression.