Welcome to the 7th Annual

Amygdala, Stress and PTSD Conference 

Recovery From Stress

 Please join us on Tuesday, April 24th 2012

Registration Closed

Directions To Conference

USU is easily accessible from the Medical Center metro stop on the Red Line. We will have shuttles to USU from the metro. There is parking at the Strathmore metro stop - 1 stop over. Please note there is No Parking on the WRNMMC Base. 

Please click here for travel information.  

This conference is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (TM)

For further information please contact: info@amygdalaconference.org

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress and the Department of Psychiatry.  The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is the Nations's federal health sciences university and is committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war.  We provide the Nation with health professionals dedicated to career service in the Department of Defense and the United States Public Health Service and with scientists who serve the common good.  We serve the uniformed services and the Nation as an outstanding academic health sciences center with a worldwide perspective for education, reseach, service and consultation; we are unique in relating these activities to military medicine, disaster medicine, and military medical readiness.



2012 Speakers

Col Eric Vermetten MD PhD

True prospective studies in military cohorts; central and peripheral regulation of combat stress

Sumantra Chattarji PhD

Stress, memory and the amygdala: implications for PTSD

Sheena Josselyn PhD

Making and breaking fear memories in mice 

Jordan Smoller MD ScD

Genetic and Neural Contributions to Anxiety-Proneness 

JoAnn Difede PhD

A new twist on an old problem: Novel therapeutics for the treatment of PTSD