The WISH Lab – Women Intimate Shelter Health project of the University of Padua questions the effects of domestic violence on the female body in an integrated way, providing scientists with data on which it is necessary to reflect and intervene.
Prisma – The why of things, the podcast by Evidence Network hosted by Giada Giorgi, restarts in a special format on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. In the second season the appointment with our scientific compass turns into an XL version, longer, more in-depth and also in video. What are the effects of violence on the female brain? What happens to the functioning of neurons? To memory circuits, to cognitive functions? And again, what connections are there with the rest of the body?
The project WISH Lab – Women Intimate Shelter Health is the only research in the world that currently studies and questions the effects of domestic violence on the female body in an integrated way, bringing together neuroscience, clinical medicine, psychology and analysis of social contexts. A complementary and innovative approach started from a collaboration between the American Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padua and which is still proceeding with the study on human beings carried out by the Italian research team.
Guests of the episode Dr. Jacopo Agrimi, researcher of the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padua and coordinator of the Wish research project, and Dr. Giulia Melis, researcher and head of the Human Research section of the WISH Lab, which coordinates the collection of clinical and biological data on women who have suffered violence.
