Brain Research Meeting: Stress, Coping and Disease.
Basic and clinical neuroscientists have been intensively studying the reactions of individuals to acute and chronic exposures to stressors and trauma for decades, but this research endeavor has grown even more important in light of the increasingly frequent medical diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among the military, and to determine its origins, treatments, and consequences. Some clinicians see the present emphasis as disregarding much prior knowledge about traumatic (emotional and physical) stress reactions, while others see now-forgotten childhood traumatic stressors as setting the stage for adult sociopathic behaviors, and emotional diseases, including criminal behavior and substance abuse. This conference will seek to present the current status of animal and human research into the reactions to environmental and physical stressors, both acute and chronic, to explore the means by which healthy brains respond to such stressors, and how it is that vulnerable individuals may fail to adapt and set the stage for adverse consequences.
Abstracts for poster presentation are now invited. Please submit abstracts using the Online Submission Form by 30 May 2008.
From: Thu, 13/11/2008 - 00:45
To: Fri, 14/11/2008 - 17:45
To: Fri, 14/11/2008 - 17:45
Arlington, VA, USA
Charlotte Wilkins
The topics for the 2008 conference are:
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - diagnosis, treatment and vulnerability factors
Behavioral Adaptations to Stress and Coping and their Consequences
Stress and Coping- human studies and animal models
Neuroendocrine Adaptations to Stress and their Consequences
Cellular Adaptations to Stress and their Consequences
Molecular Adaptations to Stress and their Consequences
New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Stress and Coping
Invited Speakers:
Alain Dagher, McGill, Canada
George F. Koob, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Steven Maier, University of Colorado, USA
Husseini Manji, NIMH, USA
John Morrison, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Louis Muglia, Washington University, USA
Carol North, Southwestern Medical School, USA
Jens Pruessner, McGill, Canada
Beeno Roozendaal, University of California, Irvine, USA
Julian Thayer, Ohio State University, USA
Organizing committee:
Floyd Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute, USA (Chair)
Alan Sved, University of Pittsburg, USA
Bruce McEwen, Rockefeller University, USA
Dennis Charney, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA
Huda Akil, University of Michigan, USA
James McGaugh, University of California-Irvine, USA
Trevor Robbins, University of Cambridge, UK