PGTRS is a weekly series examining the latest research in the field, sponsored by the Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit.
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012 Schedule:
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9/20/2011 | Theresa Betancourt, Sc.D. |
“Sierre Leone's War-Affected Youth: Using longitudinal data to develop a Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI) ” |
| 10/4/2011 | Dost Ongur, M.D., Ph.D. |
“Applications of MRS to psychiatric disorders ” |
| 10/11/2011 | Guoping Feng, Ph.D. |
“Probing synaptic and circuitry mechanisms of psychiatric disorders ” |
| 10/25/2011 | Mert Sabuncu, Ph.D. |
“MRI-derived cortical thickness as a dynamic and early marker of Alzheimer risk ” |
| 11/1/2011 | Rebecca Saxe, Ph.D. |
“It's the thought that counts: neural signatures of thinking about thoughts ” |
| 11/8/2011 | Joshua Buckholtz, Ph.D. |
“Dopaminergic mechanisms for individual differences in risk for disinhibitory psychopathology ” |
| 11/15/2011 | Charles Nelson, Ph.D. |
“The effects of early psychosocial deprivation on brain and behavioral development ” |
| 11/29/2011 | Eden Evins, M.D., MPH |
“Neurobiology of Addiction: 'Just Say No?' ” |
| 12/6/2011 | Jonathan Rosand, M.D. |
“Genetics, cerebrovascular disease, and and the aging brain ” |
| 12/13/2011 | Diego Pizzagalli, Ph.D. |
“Toward and objective characterization of depressive phenotypes: Clues from affective neuroscience ” |
| 12/20/2011 | Ellen Braaten, Ph.D. |
“Psychiatric, developmental, and family-based approaches ” |
| Jan. 17, 2012 | Mohammed Milad, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School Assistant in Research at Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, MGH |
“Translational research in the neuroscience of fear distinction” |
| Jan. 24, 2012 | Alisha Pollastri, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit (PNGU), Massachusetts General Hospital |
"Explaining the relationship between urban stress and poor mental health outcomes in low-income youth" |
| Jan. 31, 2012 | Avram Holmes, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, MGH |
“Unraveling depression: Identifying neurogenetic pathways in complex disorders” |
| Feb. 7, 2012 | Immaculata De Vivo, Ph.D., MPH Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health |
“Telomere Length: Findings from the Nurses Health Study” |
| Feb. 14, 2012 | Michael Halassa, M.D., Ph.D. Resident at MGH and Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT |
“Thalamo-cortical state dynamics: opto-molecular dissection of neural and glial substrates” |
| Feb. 21, 2012 | NO SEMINAR | |
| Feb. 28, 2012 |
Christine Hooker, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard University |
“Neural basis of social cognition in schizophrenia” |
| Mar. 6, 2012 | Joel Gelernter, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Genetics, and Neurobiology at Yale University |
"Addiction genetics and bringing a gun to a gunfight" |
| Mar. 13, 2012 | Deborah Blacker, M.D., Sc.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School |
“The Cognitive Phenotype” |
| Mar. 20, 2012 | Amar Sahay, Ph.D. Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Assistant Professor, Center for Regenerative Medicine Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School |
“Harnessing adult hippocampal neurogenesis to improve cognition and modulate mood” |
| Mar. 27, 2012 | Justin Baker, M.D., Ph.D. Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Research Fellow, Harvard Center for Brain Science |
“Network-level functional brain abnormalities in 100 patients with psychosis and mania" |
| Apr. 3, 2012 | Alkes Price, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Statistical Genetics Harvard School of Public Health |
"Tantalizing Dilemmas in Genetic Risk Prediction" |
| Apr. 10, 2012 | Niels Rosenquist, M.D., Ph.D. Instructor, Harvard Medical School Instructor in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital |
"What's in a tweet? Searching for health signals in 'big data' " |
| Apr. 17, 2012 | Elise Robinson, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health |
"Autistic traits in the general population: Investigating autism as the extreme of a neurodevelopmental continuum" |
| Apr. 24, 2012- May 15, 2012 | NO SEMINAR |
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| May 22, 2012 | Maria Glymour, Sc.D. Assistant Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health Harvard School of Public Health |
“Mendelian Randomization Methods” |
| May 29, 2012 | Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Cambridge Health Alliance |
"Disrupted Attachment in Infancy and fMRI Responses to Emotional Faces in Young Adulthood: Limbic and Cortical Components" |
| June 5, 2012 | Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D. Professor of Public Policy and Management Harvard Kennedy School of Government Director of the Harvard Laboratory for Decision Science |
"The Financial Cost of Sadness: A Series of Experiments" |
| June 12, 2012 | Rakesh Karmacharya, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School |
"Cellular Signatures for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: A Chemical Biology Approach" |
| June 19, 2012 | NO SEMINAR |
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| June 26, 2012 |
Gil Alterovitz, Ph.D. Faculty, Harvard Medical School Research Affiliate, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
"A Bayesian Network Framework for Personalized Medicine and RDoC Integration" |
