0800-0900 Registration / Breakfast
Session #1 - Small Table 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 Session #2 - Col Eric Vermetten+ brief questions
"True prospective studies in military cohorts; central and peripheral regulation of combat stress"
1000-1045 Session #3 - Sumantra Chattarji + brief questions
"Stress, memory and the amygdala: implications for PTSD"
1045-1115 Coffee Break
Session #4 - Poster Review
1115-1145 Session #5 - Panel Discussion: Vermetten+Chattarji
Moderator: David Benedek, MD
1145-1245 Lunch at USU Cafeteria, Small Dining Room
Poster Reviews in the Auditorium Lobby
1245-1330 Session #6 - Sheena Josselyn + brief questions
"Making and breaking fear memories in mice"
1330-1415 Session #7 - Jordan Smoller + brief questions
"Genetic and Neural Contributions to Anxiety-Proneness"
1415-1445 Coffee Break and Posters
1445-1530 Session #8 - JoAnn Difede + brief questions
"A new twist on an old problem: Novel therapeutics for the treatment of
PTSD"
1530-1600 Session # 9 -Panel Discussion: Josselyn, Smoller,
+ Difede
Moderator: Edmund Howe, MD
1600-1615 Closing Remarks & Presentation of Travel Awards
Robert Ursano, MD
Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Professor and Chair of USU Psychiatry
