Education
Central to the mission of the Schizophrenia Program of the MGH is to educate the general public, patients, and families about schizophrenia and its treatment. Our faculty speak to consumer groups, such as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), and Boston-based Refuah, as well as to the media. In addition, the faculty lecture at national and international conferences, grand rounds, and provide trainings to other mental health professionals and the judiciary on a variety of topics related to the neurobiology and treatment of schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Areas of expertise for the speakers include the following:
Corinne Cather, PhD: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for first episode and persistent schizophrenia, CBT approaches to enhance medication adherence, Behavioral interventions for antipsychotic-induced weight gain.
A. Eden Evins, MD, MPH: Smoking cessation strategies for schizophrenia, Treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia.
Xiaoduo Fan, MD, MS: Interventional strategies for medical comorbidity in schizophrenia, Cognitive rehabilitation and recovery of real life functioning in schizophrenia, Cultural aspects of schizophrenia.
Oliver Freudenreich, MD: Management of first-episode and early psychosis, Medication adherence and insight in schizophrenia.
Michelle Friedman-Yakoobian, PhD: Family Involvement in Mental Health Care and CBT.
Donald C. Goff, MD: Pharmacological implications of neurobiological models of schizophrenia, Glutamatergic agents for the treatment of schizophrenia, Treatment adherence in schizophrenia, Current pharmacology of schizophrenia, Medical morbidity and mortality in schizophrenia, Polypharmacy in schizophrenia.
Jennifer Gottlieb, PhD: Social Skills Training for schizophrenia and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychotic symptoms.
David C. Henderson, MD: Treatment-resistant schizophrenia, Obesity, lipid and glucose metabolism and antipsychotic agents, Ethnicity and culture in relation to psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, Ethnopsychopharmacology.
Daphne Holt, MD, PhD: Neurobiology of emotion in schizophrenia.
Gina R. Kuperberg, MD, PhD: Language Abnormalities in Schizophrenia, Spatiotemporal Neuroimaging (fMRI, ERPS, MEG).
Dara S. Manoach, PhD: Neural bases of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, particularly executive functions including performance monitoring and working memory.
Eric Morrow, MD, PhD: Genetics of schizophrenia; Genetics of cognition in schizophrenia; Disorders of cognitive development in neuropsychiatry.
Joshua Roffman, MD: Genetics of Schizophrenia.
Anthony Weiss, MD,
MSc: Neuroimaging in schizophrenia, Cognitive abnormalities in schizophrenia.
Links to Online Lectures:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Schizophrenia
November 6, 2004,
By: Corinne Cather, PhD
http://www.massgeneral.org/allpsych/schizophrenia/psy20041106/Cather/start.htm
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