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Hear the 2017 Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners and select Young Investigators present updates on leading research discoveries across brain and behavior disorders, and a Special Keynote Presentation.
Registration: 8:30 am
Morning Session: 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners
The Prevention of Relapse with Medication: A Statistical Perspective
John M. Davis, M.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Toward Personalized Medicine in Schizophrenia: Clinical Trials Targeting Specific Biomarkers and Patient Populations
Deanna L. Kelly, Pharm.D., BCPP
University of Maryland School of Medicine
The Brain Circuitry of Bipolar Disorder: A View from Brain Scanning Research
Hilary P. Blumberg, M.D.
Yale School of Medicine
Mechanisms of Mood Disorder in the Human Brain: Neural Targets for New Treatments
Mary L. Phillips, M.D., M.D. (Cantab)
University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Recovery from Severe Psychosocial Deprivation
Nathan A. Fox, Ph.D.
The University of Maryland, College Park
Charles A. Nelson III, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital
Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., M.D.
Tulane University School of Medicine
Break: 12:30 pm-1:30 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:30 pm-4:30 pm
Keynote Speaker
Are There Breakthrough Opportunities For Mental Health?
Herbert Pardes, M. D.
Executive Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
President, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council
Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners
Addiction as Brain Disorder of Self-Control
Trevor W. Robbins, Ph.D.
University of Cambridge, UK
Young Investigators
Harnessing the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis During Pregnancy to Improve Mother and Child’s Health
Mary C. Kimmel, M.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brain Development and the Immune System: The Basic Science of Stress
Anna V. Molofsky, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
The order of the presentations is subject to change.
