Annual Amygdala, Stress, and PTSD Conference
Schedule
Schedule for 21 April 2010 Meeting
All lectures 35 minutes + 10 minutes for questions
| 0800-0900 | Registration / Breakfast / Discussion Groups |
| 0900–0905 | Conference Announcements Luke Johnson PhD |
| 0905-0915 | Welcome and Introduction Robert Ursano MD Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress Professor and Chair of USU Psychiatry |
| 0915–1000 | Bruce McEwen PhD + brief questions "How Stress Can Warp the Brain and Behavior…and Affect the Rest of the Body" |
| 1000–1045 | Andrew Holmes PhD + brief question "Neural, molecular and genetic factors underlying individual differences in risk for PTSD" |
| 1045–1115 | Coffee Break and Posters |
| 1115–1200 | John Morrison PhD + brief questions "Stress-induced dendritic alterations in the medial prefrontal cortex and potential for recovery: interactive effects of circuitry, hormones, and age" |
| 1200–1230 | Panel Discussion: McEwen, Holmes and Morrison Moderator: Joel Kleinman MD, NIH |
| 1230–1330 |
Lunch at USU Cafeteria "Small Dinning Room" |
| 1330–1415 | Karim Nader PhD + brief questions "The key to prevent the return of fear memories – extinction or reconsolidation?" |
| 1415–1500 | Ruth Lanius MD PhD + brief questions "Heterogeneity of Response to Psychological Trauma: Neuroimaging Perspectives" |
| 1500–1530 | Coffee Break and Travel Awardee Posters |
| 1530–1615 | Murray Stein MD MPH + brief questions PharmacofMRI to Identify New Anxiolytics: A Human Bioassay of Amygdala and Insula Activation" |
| 1615–1645 | Panel Discussion: Nader, Lanius, Stein Moderator: Mathew Freidman MD Dartmouth Medical School |
| 1645–1700 | Closing Remarks and Presentation of Travel Awards Robert Ursano MD, Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Professor and Chair of USU Psychiatry |
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Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress Uniformed Services University |