The School of Medicine's annual symposium on recent advances in basic and clinical neuroscience will be held 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, March 29, in Harkness Auditorium, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.
At the symposium, titled "Towards Recovery from Mental Illness: How the Brain Develops and Adapts," speakers will explain how recent research holds promise for revolutionary advances in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness. The presentations will be non-technical and directed at a lay audience.
Opening remarks will be presented by Arthur Evans, deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health; Dr. Benjamin Bunney, chair of Yale's Department of Psychiatry; and Marilyn Ricci, president of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Connecticut chapter.
Talks will include how the brain functions; late-life depression and medical illness; improving cognitive and work capacity in schizophrenia; using neuroimaging techniques to study the effects of antidepressant treatments on brain chemistry; the implications of neuroscience for understanding neurodevelopmental disorders; and understanding and treating tobacco addiction in psychiatric patients.
The speakers, all faculty members from Yale's Department of Psychiatry, will be Dr. John Krystal, Dr. Paul Kirwin, Dr. Morris Bell, Dr. Gerard Sanacora, Dr. Flora Vaccarino, Dr. Tony George and Joan Kaufman. Professor Joan Kaufman from the psychiatry department and the Child Study Center will conduct a general discussion with the speakers at the end of the program.
The symposium is sponsored by the Connecticut Mental Health Center, the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry in association with the Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the Yale Mental Health Education Program.
The program has been approved for 4.5 Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers in Connecticut; meets the continuing education criteria for Connecticut Social Work Licensure renewal; and is approved for 4.5 Continuing Medical Education credits from the Office of Continuing Education, Yale School of Medicine. There is no fee for the program.
For further information, contact Georgia Miller at (203) 974-7723 or by e-mail at georgia.miller@yale.edu.
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