PGTRS is a weekly series examining the latest research in the field, sponsored by the Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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| 9/11/2012 | John B. Levine, Ph.D. |
“Basic Research of Environmental Enrichment : Implications for Treating Childhood Adversity ” |
| 9/18/2012 | Nadia Solovieff, Ph.D. |
“Genetic Determinants of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ” |
| 9/25/2012 | Erin Dunn, Sc.D., MPH |
“Gene-environment interplay in depression among children and adolescents ” |
| 10/2/2012 | Peter Kraft, Ph.D. |
“Using gene-environment interactions to identify disease genes, characterize biological mechanism, and improve risk prediction: general principles and examples from cancer epidemiology ” |
| 10/9/2012 | Mike Talkowski, Ph.D. |
“Chromosomal aberrations, chromothripsis, and insight into the genetic architecture of neuropsychiatric disorders ” |
| 10/16/2012 | CANCELLED |
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| 10/23/2012 | Ellen Grant, M.D. |
“Developing Connectivity” |
| 10/30/2012 | CANCELLED |
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| 11/6/2012 | Ki Ann Goosens, Ph.D. |
“Thinking outside the HPA "Box": New targets for preventing stress-sensitive psychiatric illness” |
| 11/13/2012 | CANCELLED |
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| 11/20/2012 | Barbara Barry, Ph.D. |
“Explorations in Computer-aided Psychotherapy” |
| 11/27/2012 | Maria Mody, Ph.D. |
“Language, Cognition and the Atypical Brain: Insights from Neuroimaging in Dyslexia and Autism ” |
| 12/4/2012 | CANCELLED |
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| 12/11/2012 | Alexa Veenema, Ph.D. |
“Vasopressin and oxytocin as mediators of stress and social behavior ” |
| 12/18/2012 | Daniel Ebert, M.D. |
“Neuronal activity and autism spectrum disorders: Activity-dependent phosphorylation of MeCP2” |
| 12/25/2012 | CANCELLED |
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| 1/1/2012 | CANCELLED |
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| 1/8/2013 | CANCELLED |
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| 1/15/2013 | CANCELLED |
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| 1/22/2013 | George Papakostas, M.D. |
“One Carbon Cycle and treatment of Major Depressive Disorder” |
| 1/29/2013 | Ray Kelleher, M.D., Ph.D. |
"Dysregulation of synaptic protein synthesis in autism pathogenesis" |
| 2/5/2013 |
Yigal Agam, Ph.D. |
"Error processing in health and neuropsychiatric disorders: Neural and genetic mechanisms" |
| 2/12/2013 | Mark Logue, Ph.D. |
"Genetics of PTSD and its comorbidities in a VA cohort" |
| 2/19/2013 | Klaus Miczek, Ph.D. |
"Models of impulsive aggressive behavior: CRF modulation of GABAergic and glutamatergic mechanisms" |
| 2/26/2013 | Nadine Gaab, Ph.D. |
"The Typical and Atypical Reading Brain: Developmental Evidence from Infants, Preschoolers and School-age Children" |
| 3/5/2013 | Tyler VanderWeele, Ph.D. |
"Genetic variants on 15q25.1, smoking and lung cancer: an assessment of mediation and interaction" |
| 3/12/2013 | Marcus Munafo, Ph.D. |
"Using Genetic Information to Infer Causation in Observational Data" |
| 3/19/2013 | CANCELLED |
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| 3/26/2013 | CANCELLED |
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| 4/2/2013 | Stuart Ablon, Ph.D. |
"Externalizing Behavior as a Learning Disability? What Makes Challenging Kids Challenging and How to Help" |
| 4/9/2013 | Daniel MacArthur, Ph.D. |
"Functional annotation at scale: examining genetic variation in the protein-coding genes of 25,000 individuals" |
| 4/16/2013 | Laura Germine, Ph.D. |
"Using big data to understand the neuropsychology of individuals" |
| 4/23/2013 | Michela Fagiolini, Ph.D. |
"Cortical circuit development and plasticity in mouse model of neurodevelopmental disorders" |
| 4/30/2013 | Kay Tye, Ph.D. |
"Activating dopamine neurons acutely rescues a stress-induced depression-like phenotype" |
| 5/7/2013 | CANCELLED |
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| 5/14/2013 | CANCELLED |
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| 5/21/2013 | Felix Warneken, Ph.D. |
"The origins of human altruistic behavior in ontogeny and phylogeny" |
| 5/28/2013 | Irwin Waldman, Ph.D. | "New Directions in Genetic Research on Youth Externalizing Psychopathology" |
| 6/4/2013 | Leah Somerville, Ph.D. |
"Building linkages between neurodevelopment and shifts in emotional processes during adolescence" |
| 6/11/2013 | Andrea Baccarelli, M.D., Ph.D. |
"Environmental Epigenetics - Identifying the programming of health and disease in human studies" |
| 6/18/2013 | CANCELLED |
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| 6/25/2013 | Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D. |
"How Emotions are Made" |
