and disease to be explored
The School of Medicine is offering a continuing medical education conference (CME) on Friday, Oct. 20, on the relationship between stress and disease, including the effect of traumatic events around the world.
"Facing Stress: Implications for Psychiatric Practice and Research" will address the clinical consequences of stress that people face every day, as well as highly stressful events such as terrorism, natural disasters or poverty. It will also link the latest discoveries in stress research to stress-related disease.
Topics include the most recent advances in stress-related psychiatric illness, coping and resilience; the neurobiological underpinnings of stress; stress among children and the elderly; psychosomatic conditions related to stress, and the role of stress in addiction and cognitive disorders, memory and the aging brain.
Among the speakers will be Robert Sapolsky, professor of biological sciences, neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University. His research focuses on stress and neuron degeneration as well as gene therapy to protect susceptible neurons from disease.
Sapolsky's book "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping" examines how prolonged stress can damage the neurons of the hippocampus. He is currently working on gene transfer techniques to strengthen neurons against the disabling effects of glucocorticoids. He has received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, among many other awards.
"Facing Stress" will be held at the Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education, 300 Cedar St. Registration is at 7:45 a.m. and the conference is from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The course offered by the Department of Psychiatry is accredited for seven Category 1 CME credits. The fees range from $125 to $150.
Participants interested in attending the conference, as well as the dinner at The New Haven Lawn Club, should check the registration page for further details at www.cme.yale.edu/conferences/conference_schedule.asp. For more information, visit www.cme.yale.edu or contact the Yale CME Office at (203) 785-4578.
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