PGTRS is a weekly series examining the latest research in the field, sponsored by the Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit.
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Schedule:
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9/14/2010 | Ben Neale, Ph.D. |
“Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing Methods ” |
| 9/21/2010 | Anna Wiste, M.D., Ph.D. |
“Genetics of Smoking and Behavior and Its Role in Psychiatric Disorders ” |
| 9/28/2010 | Roger Pitman, M.D. |
“Biological Studies of Identical Twins Discordant for Combat Exposure in Vietnam: Implications of the Pathogenesis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ” |
| 10/12/2010 | Elizabeth Kensinger, Ph.D. |
“How Emotional Arousal and Valence Influence Episodic Memory ” |
| 10/19/2010 | Scott Lukas, Ph.D. |
“Merging Brain Imaging with Behavior--Strategies for Studying Drug and Alcohol Abuse ” |
| 10/26/2010 | Niels Rosenquist, M.D., Ph.D. |
“Genetics and Economics: What they can learn from each other ” |
| 11/2/2010 | Olivia Okereke, M.D., S.M. |
“Insulin, Insulin-related Proteins and Cognitive Aging ” |
| 11/9/2010 | Dean Salisbury, Ph.D. |
“Auditory event-related potentials and event-related oscillations in first episode schizophrenia and family members ” |
| 11/16/2010 | Martin Kafka, M.D. |
“Hypersexual Disorder: a new diagnosis for DSM-5? ” |
| 11/30/2010 | Takao Hensch, Ph.D. |
“How early experience shapes neural circuits ” |
| 12/7/2010 | Barbara Pober, M.D. |
“Anxiety in Williams-Beuren syndrome: phenotype in patients and mouse models ” |
| 12/14/2010 | Katie McLaughlin, Ph.D. |
“The Long Shadow of Childhood Adversity: Mechanisms linking Adverse Childhood Experiences to the Onset of Psychiatric Disorders across the Life Course ” |
| 1/11/2011 | Laura Kubzansky, Ph.D., MPH |
“Feeling with Your Heart: (Un)Healthy Psychological Functioning and Coronary Heart Disease ” |
| 1/18/2011 | Jeremiah Scharf, M.D. |
“Genetics of Tourette Syndrome: A Multifaceted Approach |
| 1/25/2011 | Laramie Duncan, Ph.D. |
“Gene-Environment Interactions in Psychiatry: True Results or Type I Errors ” |
| 2/1/2011 | Donald Goff, M.D. |
“New approaches to glutamatergic treatments in schizophrenia; recent pharmacogenetic findings ” |
| 2/15/2011 | Robert Waldinger, M.D. |
“Happiness in Old Age: The Psychobiology of Positive Emotion Regulation ” |
| 2/22/2011 | Kimberly Saudino, Ph.D. |
“It’s complicated: Genetic Influences on Activity Level ” |
| 3/1/2011 | Joshua Greene, Ph.D. |
“The Moral Brain ” |
| 3/8/2011 | Guoping Feng, Ph.D. |
“Probing Synaptic and Circuitry Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders ” |
| 3/15/2011 | Mireya Nadal-Vicens, M.D., Ph.D. |
“Depression in Fruit Flies? A model for possible antidepressant drug discovery ” |
| 3/22/2011 | Judith Edersheim, J.D., M.D. |
“Brain Scans in the Courtroom: Neuroscience meets Jurisprudence ” |
| 3/29/2011 | Jon Madison, Ph.D. |
“Toward cellular models of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia ” |
| 4/5/2011 | Snezana Milanovic, M.D., MsC |
“Search for Putative Psychophysiologic and fMRI Biomarkers in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Psychosis: A Tale of Two Working Memory Paradigms ” |
| 4/26/2011 | Peter Conrad, Ph.D. |
“The Medicalization of Society |
| 5/3/2011 | Tianxi Cai, Sc.D. |
“Personalized prediction of disease risk and treatment response ” |
| 5/10/2011 | Tracey Petryshen, Ph.D. |
“Role of the bipolar disorder risk gene, Ankyrin 3, in behavioral regulation in mice ” |
| 5/17/2011 | Janet Rich-Edwards, Sc.D. |
“Abuse of Girls and Chronic Disease in Women: Associations, Pathways, and Vulnerabilities ” |
| 5/31/2011 | Mary Carmichael, B.A. |
“Scientists, Journalists, and the Public: Can't We All Just Get Along? ” |
| 6/7/2011 | Stephen Gilman, Sc.D. |
“Social Inequalities in Neurodevelopment ” |
