Schedule for 28 April 2009 Meeting

All lectures 35 minutes + 10 min for questions

0800-0900       Registration / Breakfast / Discussion Groups

0900-0905       Conference Announcements

                      Luke Johnson PhD

0905-0915       Welcome and Introduction

                      Robert Ursano MD

                      Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

                      Professor and Chair of USU Psychiatry

0915-1000       Bruce McEwen PhD + brief questions 

"How Stress Can Warp the Brain and Behavior…and Affect the Rest of the Body"

1000-1045       Andrew Holmes PhD + brief question

"Neural, molecular and genetic factors underlying individual differences in risk for PTSD"

1045-1115       Coffee Break and Posters

1115-1200       John Morrison PhD + brief questions

"Stress-induced dendritic alterations in the medial prefrontal cortex and potential for recovery: interactive effects of circuitry, hormones, and age"     

1200-1230       Panel Discussion: McEwen, Holmes and Morrison

                      Moderator: Joel Kleinman MD, NIH

1230-1330       Lunch at USU Cafeteria "Small Dinning Room"

                      Posters in Auditorium Lobby

1330-1415      Karim Nader PhD + brief questions

"The key to prevent the return of fear memories – extinction or reconsolidation?"  

1415-1500       Ruth Lanius MD PhD + brief questions

"Complex Adaptations to Psychological Trauma:  Neuroimaging Perspectives"

1500-1530       Coffee Break and Travel Awardee Posters

1530-1615       Murray Stein MD MPH + brief questions

PharmacofMRI to Identify New Anxiolytics: A Human Bioassay of Amygdala and Insula Activation"

1615-1645        Panel Discussion: Nader, Lanius, Stein

                       Moderator: Mathew Freidman MD

                                 Dartmouth Medical School

1645-1700       Closing Remarks and

                      Presentation of Travel Awards

                      Robert Ursano MD

                      Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

                      Professor and Chair of USU Psychiatry

2010 Speakers

Bruce McEwen

Andrew Holmes

John Morrison

Karim Nader

Ruth Lanius

Murray Stein

2010 Moderators

Matthew Friedman

Joel Kleinman