How Stress Shapes the Mind

Wednesday 21 April 2010

Uniformed Services University

The 2010 Conference at the Uniformed Services University will bring together scientists and clinicians working towards solving the biological basis of stress, fear and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Speakers in order of appearance

"How Stress Can Warp the Brain and Behavior…and Affect the Rest of the Body"

Bruce McEwen PhD - Rockefeller University

"Neural, molecular and genetic factors underlying individual differences in risk for PTSD"

Andrew Holmes PhD - NIH

"Stress-induced dendritic alterations in the medial prefrontal cortex and potential for recovery: interactive effects of circuitry, hormones, and age"

John Morrison PhD - Mt Sinai School of Medicine

"The key to prevent the return of fear memories – extinction or reconsolidation?"


Karim Nader PhD - McGill University

"Heterogeneity of Response to Psychological Trauma: Neuroimaging Perspectives"

Ruth Lanius MD PhD - University of Western Ontario

"PharmacofMRI to Identify New Anxiolytics: A Human Bioassay of Amygdala and Insula Activation"

Murray Stein MD MPH - University of California San Diego

Moderators:

Joel E. Kleinman MD PhD - Senior Investigator - NIH

Section on Neuropathology

Clinical Brain Disorders Branch

Matthew J. Friedman MD PHD

Dartmouth Medical School

National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

2010 Speakers

Bruce McEwen

Andrew Holmes

John Morrison

Karim Nader

Ruth Lanius

Murray Stein

2010 Moderators

Matthew Friedman

Joel Kleinman