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Symposium: "Psychiatry & Neuroscience--The Past, Present and Future of Brain and Behavior" (UCLA: Los Angeles, California, 8 February 2002)



http://www.neurosciencearchives.org/ucla-npi-bri-40-symposium.htm


Psychiatry & Neuroscience
The Past, Present and Future of Brain and Behavior 

A Symposium Marking the 40th Anniversary of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric 
Institute and Brain Research Institute 

Friday, February 8, 2002
NPI/Louis Jolyon West Auditorium, UCLA
Los Angeles, California

Many of the speakers will highlight breakthrough research on dopamine 
and its role in psychiatric disorders ranging from the addictions to 
schizophrenia. The significance of the research presented at this 
symposium, however, extends far beyond a single molecule or brain 
system. The work of these researchers exemplifies the broad connections 
between mind and brain, psychiatry and neuroscience, and bedside and 
laboratory. To this end, the speakers will address historical, 
clinical, and neurobiological aspects of dopamine and their 
relationship to the broader questions of psychiatry and neuroscience. 

Participants will receive a detailed syllabus including lecture 
outlines and reference materials. As part of this symposium and the 
celebration of the two Institutes' 40th anniversaries, we are 
constructing a Web-based history. This can be found at 
http://www.neurosciencearchives.org/ucla-bri-npi-history.htm . 

There is no fee for attending this Symposium, and reservations are not 
required for the lecture program. 


7:45 a.m.
Registration

8:15
"Introductory Remarks"
Peter Whybrow, M.D., and Allan Tobin, Ph.D.

Historical Aspects

8:30
"Madness: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Decade of the Brain"
Andrew Scull, Ph.D.

9:15
"Dopamine in the Basal Ganglia: The Good and the Bad"
Marie-Francoise Chesselet, M.D., Ph.D.

10:00
Break

Clinical Aspects

10:15
"Drugs Inside the Human Brain"
Nora Volkow, M.D.

11:00
"Prefrontal Dopamine and a Genetic Mechanism of Schizophrenia"
Daniel Weinberger, M.D.

11:45
Lunch Break

Neurobiological Aspects

1:45 p.m.
"Deciphering the Prefrontal Cortex and its Role in Cognition 
and Schizophrenia"
Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D.

2:30
"Differentiation of Dopamininergic Neurons"
Ronald McKay, M.D.

3:15
"Lessons Learned from the Dopamine Transporter Knockout Mice"
Marc Caron, Ph.D

4:00
Break

Future Directions 

4:15

"Past, Present, and Future: NPI/BRI and the State 
of Neuroscience and Psychiatry"
Jack Barchas, M.D.

5:30-7:30
Reception: UCLA Faculty Center


Participants:

Jack D. Barchas, M.D.
Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Arvid Carlsson, M.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
University of Göteborg

Marc G. Caron, Ph.D.
James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center

Marie-Francoise Chesselet, M.D., Ph.D.
Charles H. Markham Professor of Neurology
University of California, Los Angeles

Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D.
Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology
Yale University

Ronald McKay, Ph.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology
NIH/NINDS

Andrew Scull, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of psychiatry
University of California, San Diego

Allan Tobin, Ph.D.
Director, UCLA Brain Research Institute
Eleanor Leslie Chair of Neuroscience
Professor of Neurology
Professor of Physiological Science

Nora D. Volkow, M.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
SUNY-Stony Brook

Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D.
Chief, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch
Intramural Research Program, NIH/NIMH

Peter Whybrow, M.D.
Director, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Judson Brain Professor and Executive Chair, Department of Psychiatry 
and Biobehavioral Sciences

Program Chair:
Joel Braslow, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences 
and History
Director, UCLA Neuroscience History Archives


See website for Accreditation information


For more information, contact: 

     Joel Braslow, M.D., Ph.D.
     Director, Neuroscience History Archives
     Brain Research Institute
     University of California, Los Angeles
     Box 951761
     Los Angeles, California 90095-1761 USA

     Voice: (310) 794-2930
     Fax: (310) 206-5855

     jbraslow@ucla.edu

     or

     info@neurosciencearchives.org

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