13 – 14 November, 2008 • The Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, VA, USA

A Brain Research Meeting: Stress, Coping and Disease

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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 aims 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.

Topics include:

  • 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 announced:

  • Alain Dagher, McGill, Montreal, Canada
  • Ronald de Kloet, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  • Ronald Duman, Yale University, New Haven, USA
  • René Hen, Columbia University, New York, USA
  • Marian Joëls, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • George F. Koob, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
  • John Krystal, Yale University, New Haven, USA
  • Stafford Lightman, University of Bristol, UK
  • Steven Maier, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
  • Husseini Manji, NIMH, Bethesda, USA
  • John Morrison, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
  • Louis Muglia, Washington University, St Louis, USA
  • Mark Packard, Texas A&M University, USA
  • Jens Pruessner, McGill, Montreal, Canada
  • Benno Roozendaal, University of California, Irvine, USA
  • Murray Stein, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • Julian Thayer, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
  • Robert Ursano, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, USA

Photography

Please be advised that no photography or video/sound recording of conference presentations is allowed to take place during the conference.

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