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Schedule

Recovery from Stress

Schedule for 24 April 2012 Meeting

All lectures 35 minutes + 10 minutes for questions

0800–0900 Registration / Breakfast
Session #1 - Small Table 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  Session #2 - Col Eric Vermetten + brief questions
"True prospective studies in military cohorts; central and peripheral regulation of combat stress"
1000–1045 Session #3 - Sumantra Chattarji + brief questions
"Stress, memory and the amygdala: implications for PTSD"
1045–1115 Coffee Break
Session #4 - Poster Review
1115–1145 Session #5 - Panel Discussion: Vermetten+Chattarji
Moderator: David Benedek, MD
1145–1245 Lunch at USU Cafeteria, Small Dining Room
Poster Reviews in the Auditorium Lobby
1245–1330 Session #6 - Sheena Josselyn + brief questions
"Making and breaking fear memories in mice"
1330–1415 Session #7 - Jordan Smoller + brief questions
"Genetic and Neural Contributions to Anxiety-Proneness"
1415–1445 Coffee Break and Posters
1445–1530 Session #8 - JoAnn Difede + brief questions
"A new twist on an old problem: Novel therapeutics for the treatment of PTSD"
1530–1600 Session # 9 -Panel Discussion: Josselyn, Smoller, Difede
Moderator: Edmund Howe, MD
1600–1615 Closing Remarks and Presentation of Travel Awards
Robert Ursano, MD 
Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Professor and Chair of USU Psychiatry