Healthy Brains Healthy Bodies

• Healthy Brains Healthy Bodies Course now available on-demand!

Instructors: William Copeland, PhD, and Ellen McGinnis, PhD

This course is designed to help you support youth in your care in understanding the impacts of their choices, and to help you guide them toward healthier behaviors. Healthy Brains Healthy Bodies focuses on the interplay between your environment, epigenome, brain, and behaviors. Your environment and what you do impacts the structure and function of your brain, and therefore your subsequent thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This course includes fundamental information on epigenetics, brain structure and function across development, as well as typical behavioral and emotional functioning.