This annual event features presentations by our Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners, select BBRF Young Investigator Grantees, and Keynote Speakers.
Location:
Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th St. (btw Broadway and Amsterdam)
New York, NY 10023
Join us for a keynote talk from The Honorable Steven Leifman, Associate Administrative Judge, Criminal Division; and featured speaker Altha Stewart, M.D., President, American Psychiatric Association (APA), along with presentations on leading research discoveries across brain and behavior disorders by the Foundation’s 2018 Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners and two select Young Investigator Grantees.
Schedule:
Registration: 8:30 am
Morning Session: 9:00 am-12:10 pm
Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners
Repercussions of Abnormal Dopamine on Brain and Behavior in Schizophrenia
Anissa Abi-Dargham, M.D.
Stony Brook University
Bridging Brain, Mind, and Experience to Understand Psychosis
Guillermo Horga, M.D., Ph.D.
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University
Schizophrenia and the Brain’s Folded Genome
Schahram Akbarian, M.D., Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Evaluating Schizophrenia Risk Genes in Human Neurons
Kristen Brennand, Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Heart Matters: Bipolar Disorder as a Vascular Disease
Benjamin I. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.C.
University of Toronto & Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Advancing Translational Research and Clinical Care in Bipolar Disorder
Lakshmi N. Yatham, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.P.C., M.R.C.Psych (UK)., MBA (Exec)
University of British Columbia
Imaging the Developing Brain in Autism
Joseph Piven, M.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Break: 12:10 pm-1:10 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:10 pm-4:30 pm
Featured Speaker
Using Mental Health Research to Achieve Health Equity
Altha Stewart, M.D.
Keynote Speaker
Ending the Criminalization of Mental Illness
Judge Steven Leifman
Outstanding Achievement Prizewinners
Imagining a Better World for Children with Autism
Ami Klin, Ph.D.
Marcus Autism Center, Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Acetylcholine Receptors and Higher Brain Functions
Jean Pierre Changeux, Ph.D.
College de France and Institut Pasteur, France
The Computational CEO of the Brain
Xiao-Jing Wang, Ph.D.
Center for Neural Science, NYU
Young Investigators
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Socially Anxious Youth
Michelle Pelcovitz, Ph.D.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Emerging Wearable Biomarker Sensors for Mental Health Monitoring
Sam Emaminejad, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
The order of the presentations is subject to change.
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