Symposium Reports Research Articles

EMBEDDING EVIDENCE-BASED CAREGIVER SUPPORT IN COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS: THE ADS PLUS PROGRAM

Abstract Adult Day Services (ADS) are a community-based option in long-term care, providing a safe, interactive, and managed environment for people with dementia (PWD). ADS also serve racially/ethnically diverse communities, provide respite for family caregivers and help people age-in-place. Nevertheless, research reveals inconsistent benefits of ADS for caregivers of clients and ADS do not typically offer evidence-based caregiver programs as part of routine care. This symposium reports on the results of a novel NIA funded multi-site Hybrid Type I trial with pragmatic elements which evaluated the effectiveness of embedding a caregiver support program, ADS Plus, in ADS and delivered by staff. ADS Plus, provides caregivers with dementia education, stress reduction techniques, validation/support, referrals and linkages, and strategies to address caregiver-identified challenges over 12-months. Reported are the quantitative and cost outcomes, implementation processes, and challenges and lessons learned. Dr. Gitlin will present the main quantitative study outcomes of this multi-site trial involving 34 sites nationally and 234 caregivers, which demonstrated benefits for caregivers and ADS. Next, Dr. Marx will examine implementation findings including session completion and content. Dr. Gaugler will present findings from the qualitative arm examining perceived benefits of ADS Plus by staff and participants. Ms. Prioli will then examine cost savings associated with ADS Plus whereas Dr. Parker will address barriers when partnering with home and community-based services including developing and maintaining partnerships, institutional review board hurdles and staff readiness. To conclude, our discussant, Dr. Kenneth Hepburn, will offer perspectives on moving evidence-based programs into community-based settings such as ADS. This is a Behavioral Interventions for Older Adults Interest Group Sponsored Symposium.

AGE-INCLUSIVE STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE LEARNING AND WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS IN U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract This symposium reports on recent research to develop informed strategies to expand age-friendly campus practices related to institutional functions our previous study identified as areas of high-need and broad-impact within an age-friendly campus environment: Teaching and Learning, Personnel, and Student Affairs. The current research aimed to identify barriers and opportunities for age inclusivity as experienced by older campus members (faculty, staff, and students); identify challenges and strategies for implementing age-friendly campus practices; and recommend practical strategies to expand and enhance age-friendly practices. To this end, we drew on data collected from several sources: open-ended responses to the Age-Friendly Inventory and Campus Climate Survey (ICCS) administered to a sample of 23 U.S. members of the Age-Friendly University (AFU) network; responses from 16 focus groups of faculty, administrators/staff, and students; and 18 experts on a nationally selected Delphi panel of experts in higher education. Based on the focus group data, we generated over 50 strategy recommendations within the academic functions that were then evaluated by the Delphi panelists to assess their efficacy, feasibility, likelihood of implementation, and perceived impact. Silverstein will provide an overview of the research objectives, Bowen will discuss what the open-ended responses revealed about perceptions of campus age-inclusivity, Lin and Xu will describe the study samples, Whitbourne will describe the results of the focus group analyses, and Montepare will discuss the final set of recommendations based on the Delphi panel analyses. Berg-Weger will serve as Discussant.

IgE-Dependent Allergy in Patients with Celiac Disease: A Systematic Review.

In order to answer the question if an IgE-mediated allergy (A-IgE) may occur in subjects with celiac disease (CD), a systematic review was performed of available publications collected in the United States National Institute for Biotechnology Information/National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine/PubMed database up to 28 December 2022, with the use of the following keywords "allergy&celiac/coeliac", "sensitization&celiac/coeliac", and "anaphylaxis&celiac/coeliac" compared in the form of a conjunction. In total, the search returned 2013 publications from these keywords in any section of the article. As numerous review articles included the above-mentioned entries in the abstract, we decided to focus on the publications with the entries only in the title (n = 63). After rejecting studies unrelated to the topic, narrative reviews, book chapters, conference abstracts, symposium reports, letters to the editor, or non-English articles, 18 publications (6 observational original studies and 12 case reports describing a total of 15 cases of A-IgE developed after a diagnosis of CD) were included to this review. Our study is the first systematic review on allergy occurrence in CD patients. The analysis indicated that the possibility of a coexistence of A-IgE with any food and inhalant allergens in subjects diagnosed with CD should be considered. A sensitization to wheat was the most frequently described in subjects with CD. The clinical manifestation of A-IgE in CD was similar to that in subjects without CD; e.g., with possible atopic dermatitis, vomiting, urticaria, angioedema, or anaphylactic shock. Screening for allergies in subjects with CD should be considered, especially in those cases where symptoms persist after introducing a gluten-free diet. The elimination of wheat from the diet of patients with CD may lead to a loss of immune tolerance and to the development of sensitization, which may even manifest as anaphylaxis. In conclusion, although there are few studies assessing the occurrence of A-IgE in subjects with CD, they show the possibility of a coexistence of both diseases and the high clinical significance of this phenomenon, which indicates the need for further studies.

LIVED EXPERIENCES OF OLDER CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DURING THE PANDEMIC: STRESS AND RESILIENCE

Abstract Older immigrants in affordable housing have unique sets of challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic posed by limited English proficiency and resources. The aggregated living condition could increase their risk of being exposed to the contagious disease. This symposium reports empirical findings of the social Network of Immigrant Chinese older adults in affordable Housing Environment (NICHE) project, which focused on the influence of COVID-19 on underprivileged Chinese older immigrants. We conducted 27 semi-structured interviews with foreign-born older Chinese immigrants (mean age 78.1, 69.23% female) in an affordable housing in Los Angeles to learn about their lived experiences and coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first presentation focused on the changes in older Chinese immigrants’ social life after the onset of the pandemic and aimed to understand the pandemic’s impact on their depressive symptoms and loneliness. The second presentation describes older Chinese immigrants’ perceived pandemic-related stressors and resilience across phases of the pandemic, including at the beginning, after they got vaccinated, and the rising of delta variant. The participants explained what supportive services had been helpful and what support they wished they could have over the past two years in the pandemic. The third presentation reports the experience of being discriminated against during the pandemic, the Chinese older adults’ attitudes towards these discriminatory events, and coping strategies. Together, these three presentations will depict the lived experience of Chinese immigrants over two years during the pandemic and discuss intervention strategies and policy considerations for preparing for future crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.

THE INFLUENCE OF NURSING HOME CONTEXT ON IMPLEMENTATION: EARLY FINDINGS

Abstract Evidence suggests that organizational context, including context of care in nursing homes (NHs) is associated with implementation and improvement success and that optimized context contributes to improved resident and staff outcomes. However, evidence on mechanisms of these influences is scarce. The longitudinal Translating Research in Elder Care program (2007 to present) is our data source. This symposium reports findings of a secondary analysis of longitudinal organizational structural and contextual, staff worklife, and resident care quality data collected in nursing homes from 2007-2021, in a cohort of 94 Canadian nursing homes. Our data include continuously collected administrative data (RAI-MDS 2.0), 5 waves of primary surveys from multiple care providers in NHs (15,000 cases to date), extensive qualitative case study data, and data from two large scale pragmatic trials. The TREC program was framed originally and continues to be, using the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARiHS) framework. Each of our 5 papers will report on a critical aspect of the findings. The symposium will conclude with a discussion of implications of these findings of phase one and a description of phase two and how it is shaped by our interactions with expert panels (context and implementation experts, policymakers, NH managers, paid care providers, and residents and families). Early implications of this work for future research in nursing homes and for practice and policy will be mentioned.

INTEGRATING HOUSING, HEALTH, AND SUPPORTIVE CARE IN AFFORDABLE SENIOR HOUSING: EVALUATION OF THE R3 PROGRAM

Abstract This symposium reports evaluation findings from the Right Care, Right Place, Right Time (R3) program. The initiative is designed to integrate housing, health, and supportive care to residents of affordable senior housing using a wellness team (nurse and social worker). The embedded team works directly with residents to address health-related, educational, and informational needs and access to services - focusing on proactive outreach and prevention, coordination with providers, constant contact with residents, and targeting high-risk residents. The initiative aims to create a replicable, scalable, and sustainable model of housing with supportive services that enables independent living while reducing health care costs. Two wellness teams served approximately 400 participants at seven Boston-area buildings. The R3 program was implemented in two phases. The 18-month pre-intervention period was January 2016-March 2017, while the 18-month Phase 1 intervention period was July 2017-December 2018. The 21-month Phase 2 implementation period (known R32), which introduced a targeting strategy to identify high risk residents, was January 2019-September 2020. Evaluation activities included quantitative and qualitative components. Program participants and non-participants at intervention and comparison sites were surveyed on program-related experiences. Program, housing, and community partners were interviewed. Key performance indicators were tracked. Medicare claims data were analyzed using comparison groups. Focus groups were completed with payers, housing providers, and community stakeholders. The purpose of this symposium is to identify the experiences of program participants and key stakeholders with the R3 program, and to assess program impact. Edward Miller and Marc Cohen will serve as chair and co-chair, respectively.

Unique Opportunities and Challenges From Two Online Psychosocial Randomized Clinical Trials

Research aimed at testing readily delivered online psychosocial interventions for addressing the needs of custodial grandfamilies (CGF) has been scarce. This symposium reports on two NIH-funded randomized clinical trials (RCT) involving fully online interventions: Study 1 (S1)-dyadic social Intelligence training for custodial grandmothers and their adolescent grandchildren, and Study 2 (S2)-4 week resourcefulness training with daily journaling intervention for grandmothers only. We presented here on the unique advantages and challenges of online RCTs as they apply to CGFs and similar hard-to-reach populations. First, in a cross-study collaboration, Jeanblanc et al. report data from both studies on how COVID-19 influenced coping habits, grandchild’s remote learning, household conflict, uncertainty, and finances. Second, Castro et al. investigate how baseline positive and negative affect were reported in daily diaries completed by both grandmothers and grandchildren across 14 days at pretest in S1. Third, Musil et al. describe the challenges and benefits of using an entirely online design for the distribution and collection of longitudinal data, as exemplified by 4 weeks of qualitative daily journals from S2. Lastly, Webster et al. report on the benefits and challenges of recruitment and retention strategies encountered across S1 and S2. As discussant, Rachel Pruchno considers how the specific methodological advantages and disadvantages of online RCTs covered in the above papers apply to family caregiving research in general.

Effects of Loneliness and Social Isolation on Cognitive Health: Latest Perspectives and Future Directions

Loneliness and social isolation as antecedents of cognitive decline have received substantial attention in recent research. This symposium addresses this year’s conference theme of aging in the “new normal”. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the negative impacts of loneliness and social isolation on older adults’ health and wellbeing. This symposium includes studies that shed light on the relationships between loneliness, social isolation and cognitive health using a multidisciplinary approach, and provide recommendations and future directions for advancing this research area. The first presentation examines cardiovascular biomarkers as potential mechanisms that mediate the longitudinal relationship between loneliness and cognitive decline with the HRS dataset. The second presentation examines several social isolation indicators and their effects on cognitive decline in a Canadian longitudinal study. Using the US ADRC longitudinal study of aging, the third study shows the effect of loneliness on cognitive health in older adults pre- and post-onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The symposium concludes with a literature review of the different measures employed to operationalize the constructs of loneliness, isolation, which resulted in heterogeneous study findings on their influences on the risk of developing dementia. This review calls for consistent measures to produce comparable evidence on the health consequences of loneliness and isolation. In all, this symposium reports and reviews the latest evidence on the association between social isolation, loneliness and cognitive health amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It also echoes the conference theme of transforming disruption to opportunities in aging health service and research.

Curating a Sustainable Consulting Practice: Reflections of Experts

The consulting industry continues to evolve in the age of digital transformation, and the expanding role of the management consultant remains critical as managers seek to navigate uncertainty. When and how professionals choose to engage in a consulting practice is a career consideration for many career pivoters, doctoral students, and academics seeking to be more connected to the practice of management. This symposium reports on the amazing career stories of ten experienced consultants who each have cultivated sustainable consulting practices. Often the choice to launch a consulting practice occurs after many have established themselves as scholars in a particular management knowledge area and become interested in putting their scholarly knowledge to work. Universities are not in the business of developing their professors and students as consultants. Thus, there is a need to address this desire among many members of the Academy of Management. The purpose of this symposium is to provide participants with a venue for sharing and exploring how to develop a management consulting practice. Members of the Academy of Management (both scholars and practitioners) who have thriving consulting practices and/or firms will share their stories and interact with participants interested in either developing or enhancing their consulting practices. The session brings together established practitioners, scholars, and students, creating a forum through which ideas can be shared about how to make the shift from scholar to consultant.

Emerging Research Directions Exploring Grief in Organizations

Grief is an increasingly salient component of organizational life. Yet, we know relatively little about: (1) how employees experience and manage grief in their workplaces, (2) the impact of grief on employees and organizations, and (3) how colleagues, leaders, and organizations can best aid grieving employees as they move through grief towards recovery. Our symposium reports qualitative and quantitative research that extends the understanding of grief in the management literature, provides research-based recommendations for organizations in managing grieving employees, and subsequently strongly contributes to the Academy of Management’s conference theme “Bringing the Manager Back in Management.” The symposium includes four papers showcasing the influence of grief on employees’ work lives. Taken together, our papers and discussion, led by Dr. Gianpiero Petriglieri, endeavors to provide insight into the consequences of grief and mourning for employees and organizations, build an emerging community of scholars focused on issues related to grief and mourning, and generate a strong program of future academic research. Misery Loves Company? An Examination of Sharing Grief at Work Presenter: Seoin Yoon; Texas A&M U., College Station Presenter: Nitya Chawla; Texas A&M U. Presenter: Ji Koung Kim; Texas A&M U. Presenter: Yu Tse Heng; U. of Washington, Seattle Discovering a New Abnormal: The Role of Interpersonal Support at Work Presenter: Jessi Hinz; Case Western Reserve U. Work as Refuge: Job Crafting as Coping with Difficult Life Events Presenter: Pletneva Lidiia; ESSEC Business School “Careful the Wish You Make”: When Entrepreneurial Success Ushers in Grief Presenter: Hilary M. Hendricks; U. of Michigan

Geropsychology Training Innovations: Understanding Ageism and Adultism in Students and New Training Initiatives

In order to address the geropsychology workforce shortage, educators are trying to better understand the attitudes, interests, and needs of prospective students as well as expand educational opportunities and specialty competence. This symposium reports on several recent and ongoing research projects and educational initiatives which can together inform future efforts to recruit students into the field. King et al. discuss how concerns about adultist oppression might keep young adults from entering the field. This study describes a new adultism measure which positively correlates with ageism and negatively correlates with both experience and interest in working with older adults. Together with Strong and Graham’s study looking at ageism among North American and non-North American students, these studies remind us of the continued effort needed to better understand and combat age-related oppression of individuals at both ends of the lifespan. Two studies share specific educational initiatives addressing areas of essential but undervalues areas of training for geropsychologists. O’Malley and Graham report on the integration of health policy training into undergraduate education, while Jacobs et al. describing a new performance-based evaluation tool for training in the assessment of decision-making capacity. Postgraduate specialization continues to be crucial in establishing and growing the discipline of geropsychology. Mlinac and Smith report on the development of a mentorship program for professionals on the path to board certification.

Prosocial Behavior and Contributors to Older Adults’ Well-Being in Daily Life

This symposium reports findings from a national experience-sampling study of 165 older adults (mean age=71, range=60-88 years) who are heavily involved in prosocial activity, contributing to their communities as leaders or high-commitment volunteers in social-purpose organizations. Gerontological research has linked prosocial activity to a set of positive outcomes for the older adults who engage in it (e.g., better health and reduced mortality), including global measures of well-being such as life satisfaction. However, little is known about the contributors to these individuals’ momentary well-being. Four presentations address this gap in knowledge. In the first presentation, Dwight Tse revisits the concept of successful aging as a within-person variable with day-to-day variations. Experience sampling data revealed great variations in successful aging indicators, and successful aging was associated with better well-being as hypothesized. In the second presentation, Ajit Mann extends beyond general control beliefs and explores the diversity in distribution of control beliefs across various daily activities (e.g., active leisure, prosocial activity, socializing, etc.), in addition to investigating the relationship between later life control diversity and subjective well-being. In the third presentation, Kelsey Finley explores Aristotle’s concept of the golden mean (an ideal state between deficiency and excess) for the number of hours spent in prosocial work on momentary well-being outcomes. In the fourth presentation, Jeanne Nakamura examines the relationship between global meaning in life and meaningful engagement in the moment, illuminating variation in this relationship through a comparison of the prosocial leaders and high-commitment volunteers.

Death and Work: Utilizing Diverse Methods to Integrate Mortality into Management Research

Many occupations involve mortality cues, or external stimuli that remind employees of death. Yet we know relatively little about: (1) how employees experience mortality cues in workplaces and (2) the effect of mortality cues on employees and organizations. On one hand, mortality cues can trigger employee stress, trauma, and uncertainty. On the other hand, employees can bond and find humor and purpose in these experiences. Our symposium reports qualitative and quantitative research that extends the understanding of mortality in the management literature, and, in so doing, strongly contributes to the Academy of Management’s conference theme “20/20: Broadening our Sight”. The symposium includes four papers showcasing the influence of mortality cues on employees’ emotions, work orientations, well-being, and performance. We address dichotomies in this symposium – that mortality cue exposure has both positive (e.g., work engagement, meaning) and negative (e.g., emotional exhaustion) employee outcomes – and clarify mechanisms and boundary conditions contributing to these dichotomies. Taken together, our papers and discussion, led by Dr. Peter Bamberger, endeavors to provide insight into the consequences of mortality cues for employees and organizations, deliver actionable recommendations for managers, and generate future academic research. Called to Cure: Patient Deaths, Death Fear, and Calling of Substance Abuse Treatment Counselors Presenter: Zhenyu Yuan; U. of Illinois at Chicago Presenter: Lisa E. Baranik; U. at Albany, State U. of New York Presenter: Lillian Eby; U. of Georgia Presenter: Robert R Sinclair; Clemson U. Another Day, Another Death? The Impact of Mortality Cues on Employees Exposed to Death at Work Presenter: Pascale Fricke; U. of British Columbia Presenter: Danielle Van Jaarsveld; U. of British Columbia Presenter: David Douglas Walker; U. of British Columbia Mortality Cue Threats, Death Anxiety, and Employee Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model Presenter: Alexandra Jacobsen; Central Michigan U. Presenter: Terry A Beehr; Central Michigan U. Song of Sorrow: A Longitudinal Study of Work-Related Grief and Organizational Change Presenter: Elizabeth E. Stillwell; U. of Minnesota Presenter: Angelica Leigh; U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Presenter: Olivia Amanda O'Neill; George Mason U.

THE GSA PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM — STRENGTH IN AGE: HARNESSING THE POWER OF NETWORKS

GSA is a network of disciplinary components each of which is a network composed of members. This large system possesses powerful emergent properties that are realized at many interdisciplinary interfaces. The GSA Presidential Symposium mirrors this by bringing together rapporteurs from our disciplinary presidential symposia who will summarize the major findings of these symposia. The Behavioral and Social Sciences presidential symposium explores the use of social networking by aging adults, the media and technologies utilized, and the impact of these trends on health and well-being. The Biological Sciences presidential symposium examines multiple layers of biological networks as predictors of systemic aging. The Social Research Policy and Practice presidential symposium dissects the reciprocal relationship between broad environmental contexts and social networks throughout life and ways in which this relationship can be used to optimize the aging experience. The Health Sciences presidential symposium reports on the improvement of perioperative care of older adults achieved through harnessing the partnership and collaboration of all disciplines involved in this care. The Academy of Gerontology in Higher Education presidential symposium discusses ongoing initiatives that build networks to shape age-friendly programs and policies at universities, international collaborations, and competency-based gerontology education. The Humanities and Arts presidential symposium investigates the synergy between museums and aging, both of which are represented as networks. A discussion between the presidential symposia rapporteurs with audience participation will ensue to identify common, overarching themes and to spark approaches to important, interdisciplinary problems in gerontology. • Kelly Niles-Yokum, Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education, Education Networks: Strengthening of Gerontology and Geriatrics through Connectivity • Kristine J. Ajrouch, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, The Ties That Bind: The Influence of Social Media and Technology in the Lives of Older Adults • George L. Sutphin, Biological Sciences Section, Expanding the Geroscience Network • Luigi Ferrucci, Health Sciences Section, Optimizing Surgical Care for All Older Adults • Kate de Medeiros, Humanities and Arts Committee, Museums and Aging: Novel Network Opportunities to Support Optimal Aging • Emily Greenfield, Social Research Policy and Practice Section, Harnessing Social Networks to Optimize Environmental Contexts for Diverse Aging Experiences

Risk guideposts for a safer society: Introduction and overview

This symposium issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty addresses wide-ranging policy issues pertaining to risk regulation and the economic underpinnings of these efforts. One such intervention consists of policies to address informational market failures. Whether new information has a positive value is less obvious than economists often assume. When more stringent regulations are required, the structure and evaluation of these efforts often hinges on the value of a statistical life, or the VSL. This symposium reports estimates of the utility functions that generate these local risk-money tradeoffs as well as new estimates of the VSL using both stated-preference and revealed-preference approaches. Articles also explore the behavioral factors that affect VSL estimates, the effect of health risks on product prices, and how income taxation affects stated-preference survey elicitations of the VSL. The symposium reports estimates of the VSL for almost 200 countries as well as the VSL levels used by U.S. government agencies in analyses of over 100 government regulations from 1985 to 2018.

食料市場のグローバル化とわが国の輸入食品検査体制(テーマ:食品の安全・安心と品質表示,2003年度大会シンポジウム報告)

食料市場のグローバル化とわが国の輸入食品検査体制(テーマ:食品の安全・安心と品質表示,2003年度大会シンポジウム報告)

農業・食料セクターの「工業化」「グローバル化」と農協・農政 : 「国際農業市場の再編と農業政策」の分析視角と方向(テーマ:食料・農業市場の現段階と展望,2001年度大会シンポジウム報告)

農業・食料セクターの「工業化」「グローバル化」と農協・農政 : 「国際農業市場の再編と農業政策」の分析視角と方向(テーマ:食料・農業市場の現段階と展望,2001年度大会シンポジウム報告)

14.2 Depression in Childhood: One Year Outcomes of Family Versus Individual Treatment

Depression in childhood is associated with high rates of subsequent depression, contributing to later morbidity and risk for suicide. We previously reported that a family-focused treatment for childhood onset depression (FFT-CD) aimed at mobilizing family support and skills led to higher rates of clinical response at the end of treatment compared with individual supportive therapy (IP). However, improvement was strong for both conditions. This part of the Symposium reports on longer-term outcomes. We hypothesized that FFT-CD would lead to more persistent recovery and reduced risk of recurrent episodes. This hypothesis was based on the view that because young children are relatively dependent on their families, enhancing support for recovery within the family would be particularly beneficial during this developmental period.

Sexual dimorphism, plasticity and genomic diversity of the paraventricular nucleus

The hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) is the nodal point for the integration of multiple homeostatic responses. Neurons in this area display both unique and overlapping phenotypic identities and functions. They control diverse, yet related, functions, such as fluid and electrolyte homeostasis, metabolism and cardiovascular integrity, via the release of vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone) and oxytocin from the neurohypophysis and adrenocorticotrophic hormone from the adenohypophysis. Pre-autonomic fibres projecting from the PVN exert potent effects on sympathetic and parasympathic outflow from the brainstem, medulla and spinal cord, and recently, a role for those neurons in the sexual dimorphism of cardiovascular health and disease has been identified. Certainly, neurons in the PVN play important roles in the control of gonadotrophin release and thus reproductive function. Not to be overlooked is the importance of PVN neurons in behavioural functions only secondarily related to reproduction or cardiovascular status, such as thirst, sodium appetite and food intake. Over the years, the phenotypic identities of multiple cell types in the PVN have been described, and connectivity studies have elucidated their targets. New ligand–receptor pairs have been discovered based upon the interactions of peptides and their receptors in the PVN. As a result of the availability of modern molecular tools and advanced behavioural screening approaches, studies examining PVN neurons continue to reveal new insights into the integrative nature of this crucially important region of the hypothalamus. The Physiology Society-sponsored symposium entitled ‘Sexual dimorphism, plasticity and genomic diversity of the paraventricular nucleus’ held on Wednesday 26 April 2017 at Experimental Biology 2017 in Chicago, IL, USA, brought together investigators whose work addresses several of these advances. Unique insight into the genomic regulation of cells in the PVN was presented by Dr Alastair Ferguson (Loewen, 2017), and a surprising view of their ability to switch phenotypes during physiological challenges highlighted the examination of cellular function introduced by Dr Jaideep Baines. Attention then was turned to the behavioural aspects of PVN function, with the focus on sex differences described by Dr Jessica Santollo (Santolo, 2017) and the importance of chromosomal sex on cardiovascular health as illustrated by Dr Jill Barnes (Barnes, 2017). Symposium reports from those speakers are included in this issue of Experimental Physiology. The organizers acknowledge the important contributions of the speakers and the support provided by The Physiological Society.

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