The "Healthy Brains for a Healthy Oklahoma" lecture series on January 25th has been cancelled and will resume next month on February 22nd.

If you were looking forward to Dr. Sahib Khalsa's lecture, please visit our YouTube channel to view a past recording:

"When Food Rules the Brain"

​Pain is a common experience among human beings. It is estimated that more than 30% of Americans have some form of acute or chronic pain. The increase awareness of pain and its consequences has had some unfortunate consequences. In 2014 alone, U.S. retail pharmacies dispensed 245 million prescriptions for opioid pain relievers.

In this lecture Dr. Paulus will outline:
(1) How pain is generated?
(2) What brain and molecular processes contribute to the severity and intensity of pain?
(3) How opioids work and what the consequences are of long-term opioid use.
(4) Treatments for opioid addiction and alternative for pain management.

Alexander Bystritsky, M.D., Ph.D.: November 14th, 2017

"Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Pulse:  A New Neuromodulation Technology.  Similarity and Differences with Other Neuromodulation Technologies”

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
11:00am - 11:45 am    Registration and Lunch, lunch stops being served at 11:45 - no exceptions
12:00pm - 1:00pm     Program

Professor Alexander Bystritsky, M.D., Ph.D. graduated from Pavlov Medical Institute (currently Pavlov Medical University) in St. Petersburg, Russia (former Soviet Union) with M.D. degree in 1977 and then his Ph.D. in Pharmacology in 1979.  In 1976 his paper won the Gold Medal for the Best Student Scientific Paper and Maria Petrova National Award in Neuroscience.
 
After he arrived to New York, he worked for one year as an Associate Researcher in the NYU Department of Psychiatry prior his admission to the NYU-Belleview residency program in Psychiatry. He completed his residency in 1985 and moved to UCLA as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Bystritsky has been on the UCLA Faculty since 1987. He is currently a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles where he directs the Anxiety Disorders Program and Targeted Brain Stimulation Program. Dr. Bystritsky published over 240 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and short publications and has served as the PI and Co-PI on several NIH, foundations and industry sponsored grants. Over the years, he earned several honors and awards including OCD Foundation Research Award and Brain and Behavior Distinguished Investigator Award. He is also listed in the Best Doctors in America for the last 20 years. For several years, he was a Visiting Professor and a collaborator with Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts investigating Focused Ultrasound Pulsation effects on brain using fMRI. He has authored several patents on image-guided neuromodulation of brain neurons using Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Pulsation (LIFUP). His current area of interest is neuroimaging guided brain stimulation. He the director of collaborative Targeted Brain Stimulation clinical and research program on image-guided DBS, rTMS, LIFUP and other neuromodulation techniques in Anxiety Disorders with the department of Neurosurgery at UCLA. He is Executive Director of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation. He is Founder and CEO Brainsonix Corporation, a start-up company producing LIFUP/MR compatible devices for research.

Learning objectives:

1.  Inform the learners about different neuromodulation techniques.
2.  Discuss similarity and differences with LIFUP.
3.  Discuss historical development of the LIPUP.
 
REGISTER TO ATTEND!
 
To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com

Dr. Justin Feinstein's talk will discuss float therapy, a brand new treatment for naturally reducing levels of stress and anxiety.  The presentation will provide an overview of this novel therapy, how it works, and how it can help individuals who suffer from stress and anxiety.

Justin Feinstein is a Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research and an Assistant Professor at the new Oxley College of Health Sciences at the University of Tulsa.  He received his PhD from the University of Iowa and completed his postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology.  His research examines how the human brain produces primal states of emotion, with an emphasis on the neuroscience of fear and treatments that alleviate anxiety.  His work has been published in a number of top scientific journals and has been featured in the popular press including the New York Times, TIME magazine, NPR, and New Scientist.  

​Dr. Feinstein serves as Director of the Float Clinic and Research Center (FCRC) at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. The FCRC’s mission is to investigate the effects of floatation on both the body and the brain, as well as explore its potential as a therapeutic treatment for promoting mental health and healing in patients who suffer from anxiety.

 Gary Glover, Ph.D.: October 10th, 2017
"Neuromodulation and fMRI”

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
11:00am - 11:45 am    Registration and Lunch, lunch stops being served at 11:45 - no exceptions
12:00pm - 1:00pm     Program

Dr. Glover is Professor of Radiology, Biophysics and Neurosciences, Electrical Engineering and Psychology (by courtesy), and is Director of Radiological Sciences Laboratory (RSL) in the Department of Radiology as well as the Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging.  He has extensive experience in virtually all aspects of diagnostic medical imaging dating back to 1975, and has been a pioneer in developing novel magnetic resonance imaging techniques for nearly 30 years and fMRI methods since 1992.  His group has pioneered the use of spiral k-space methods for fMRI and contributes to development of both acquisition and analysis technology in use by many investigators.  As director of the Lucas Center, Dr. Glover works with many scientists and their students in performing fMRI experiments and has vast experience in a broad field of cognitive neuroscience, but with particular emphasis on neuroimaging acquisition methods.  He mentors five of his own students and post docs as well as approximately 10 other students and junior faculty for whom he a secondary advisor, thesis reader or research consultant. 

Learning objectives:

1.  Discuss how Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Electrical Stimulation can affect brain function.
2.  Identify ways to monitor the stimulation sites.
3.  Learn how to apply this technology for basic and clinical applications.
 
REGISTER TO ATTEND!
 
To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com
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 Leanne Williams, Ph.D.: August 8th, 2017
"Neuroscience Informed Precision Psychiatry”

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
11:00am - 11:45 am    Registration and Lunch, lunch stops being served at 11:45 - no exceptions
12:00pm - 1:00pm     Program

Dr. Williams is changing the way we understand and treat mental disorders. She is developing a model for Neuroscience Informed Precision Mental Health for understanding mental disorders as disruptions in brain circuits that govern emotional and cognitive functions. The goal is to use this model to accelerate the  translation of neuroscience insights into better diagnosis and treatment choices that are tailored to each person. After first graduating, Dr. Williams worked with patients experiencing serious mental disorders and who had been hospitalized for many years. This experience transformed the trajectory of her career. She went on to complete her PhD in 1996 with a British Council scholarship for study at Oxford University.
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Dr. Williams develops Neuroscience Informed Precision Mental Health as a Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and as Director of her interdisciplinary lab, the “PanLab”.  She also leads department-wide initiatives in Precision Psychiatry as Associate Chair of Research Strategy and as the Chair of the major labs focused on clinical translational neuroscience. She has a joint position at the Palo Alto VA where she is Director of education and dissemination, focused on traumatic stress. 
Dr. Williams first came to Stanford as a visiting Professor in 2011. At that time she was leading a multi-site international study to identify brain biomarkers for depression and antidepressant response.  She was thrilled to join the Stanford faculty in 2013. Prior to this time she was foundation Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the Sydney Medical School and Director of the interdisciplinary Sydney Brain Dynamics Center for 12 years. Her scholarly contributions to the field include over 250 peer-reviewed publications. 

Learning points:
An introduction to key principles for one approach to developing a neuroscience-informed psychiatry model

1. Learn about brain imaging findings that may inform treatment decisions for depression
2. Learn about genetic and environmental predictors of treatment outcomes for depression
   
   

REGISTER TO ATTEND!
 To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com                           

Tor D. Wager, Ph.D.: June 6th, 2017
"Reproducible, Generalizable Brain Models of Affective Processes”

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
11:00am - 11:45 am    Registration and Lunch, lunch stops being served at 11:45 - no exceptions
12:00pm - 1:00pm     Program

Dr. Wager is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and a faculty member in the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in cognitive psychology in 2003, and served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Columbia University from 2004-2009. Since
2010, he has directed Boulder’s Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience laboratory. He has a deep interest in how thinking influences affective experiences, affective learning,
and brain-body communication. His laboratory also focuses on the development and deployment of analytic methods, and has developed several publically available
software toolboxes for fMRI analysis.
 
Learning points:
 
1. Understand how pain and emotions are represented in the brain.
2. Examine the role of scientific transparency and reproducibility in modern brain scanning experiments.
3. Differentiate between pain and emotional networks in the brain.
 
REGISTER TO ATTEND!
 
To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com

​Each hemisphere of the brain performs special functions that allows the brain as a whole to work more efficiently.  How do these two halves work as a whole? What are patterns of right brain and left brain functions?  How did these functions evolve through time and within individuals?  What relevance does handedness have on mental illness?  In this talk, we will explore lateralization of human brain function and how the balancing of specialized components makes a healthy whole.

Dr. Yoon-Hee Cha is a neurologist who earned her medical degree from Mayo Medical School. While at the University of California-Los Angeles, she developed an interest in using functional MRI, EEG, and neuromodulation techniques to study and treat disorders of motion perception.  She joined LIBR in August 2012.  Her current work focuses on a group of patients with mal de debarquement syndrome (MdDS) as well as disorders of spatial processing related to anxiety and migraine. 

 John H. Krystal, M.D.
"Glutamate Synaptic Dysfunction in Schizophrenia:  Microcircuits, Macrocircuits, and Novel Therapeutics”
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Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
9:00am - 9:45 am    Registration and Breakfast, breakfast stops being served at 9:45 - no exceptions
10:00am - 11:00am     Program

Dr. Krystal is the Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Professor of Translational Research, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, and Professor of Neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine and Chief of Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital.  He is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Yale Psychiatry Residency Training Program.  He has published extensively on the neurobiology and treatment of schizophrenia, alcoholism, PTSD, and depression. Notably, he led the discovery of the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine in humans. He is the Director of the NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism and the Clinical Neuroscience Division of the VA National Center for PTSD. Dr. Krystal is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. Currently, he is president of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP), a member of the NIMH National Mental Health Advisory Council, and editor of Biological Psychiatry (IF=11.212).

Learning points:
 
1. To introduce glutamate synaptic dysfunction in schizophrenia
2. To describe evidence for disinhibited/hyperconnected and atrophic phases of schizophrenia
3. To consider the implications of these pathophysiologic hypotheses for glutarnatergic pharmacotherapies for schizophrenia

REGISTER TO ATTEND!
 
To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com

​The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study is the largest (with a planned enrollment of 11,000 individuals ages 9-10) longitudinal study of its kind ever conducted.  The recruitment for this 23-site study started in September of 2016; so far approximately 1400 participants age 9-10 have been enrolled in the study.  The Coordinating Site has released some initial data to the participating sites for preliminary analyses.  LIBR will present some very basic characterization of the participants in comparison to the other ABCD sites.  The presentation will have a particular emphasis on gaming and internet activities.  This will include a review of what is known about the influence of gaming on the brain and brain development.  We also welcome questions from the audience during and after the presentation.

"Immune Activation in Psychiatric Disorders”

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
11:00am - 11:45 pm    Registration and Lunch, lunch stops being served at 11:45 - no exceptions
12:00pm - 1:00 pm     Program

Dr. Yolken is the Theodore and Vada Stanley Distinguished Professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  He chairs the Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology, the nation's first pediatric research center designed to investigate links between early childhood infections and severe mental illness including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and autism.  His research group is investigating whether these disorders can be associated with prior exposure to viral triggers such as herpesviruses and influenza viruses as well as eukaryotic organisms such as Candida albicans and the Toxoplasms gondii.  Their research indicates that antimicrobial and anti-flammatory medications have the potential to treat or prevent serious psychiatric disorders in some individuals.

Dr. Yolken attended Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and received post-doctoral training at Cornell University and the National Institutes of Health.  He has over 480 published peer-reviewed articles and numerous book chapters and presentations at scientific meetings.
 
Learning points:
 
1. Understand immune activation in psychiatric disorders
2. Recognize risk factors
3. Recognize opportunities for intervention
 
REGISTER TO ATTEND!
 
To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com

​Florence Breslin will present an overview of adolescent drug and alcohol use and abuse around the country and here in Oklahoma. The key themes of the talk are: (a) the real statistics of use to reduce the “not my child” ideology, (b) the effects of use on the developing brain, and (c) how to talk to your child about why to avoid drugs and alcohol.
 
Ms. Breslin is the Child and Adolescent Clinical Assessment Manager at LIBR.  She studied biology and genetics at Niagara University and obtained her Masters in biology and addiction at the University of Virginia.  Ms. Breslin is a Certified Clinical Research Professional with publications in genetics, pre-clinical addiction and neuroimaging.  In January of 2015, Ms. Breslin joined LIBR as the study coordinator for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, a landmark nation-wide study of adolescent brain development funded by the National Institutes of Health. 

Celebrate Brain Awareness Week! Join the OSU Center for Health Sciences this Friday, March 10th from 10-12pm to learn about physical activity, healthy living and brain function, understanding and responding to dementia-related behavior and dancing for a healthy brain.

Light refreshments and cookies will be served. The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to Darin Tyson at darin.tyson@okstate.edu. We'll see you there!

"Targeting the Prefrontal Cortex and Cognition for Intervention in Addiction”

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
11:00am - 11:45 pm    Registration and Lunch
12:00pm - 1:00 pm     Program

Dr. Goldstein is a Professor of Psychiatry with a secondary appointment in the Department of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) in NY. Dr. Goldstein is chief of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC) at ISMMS; she also directs the NARC (Neuropsychoimaging of Addiction and Related Conditions) research group that uses multimodality functional neuroimaging methods to explore the neurobiological basis of impaired cognitive and emotional functioning in human drug addiction and other disorders of self-control. An important application of this research is to facilitate the development of intervention modalities that would improve treatment outcome in drug addiction and other chronically relapsing disorders of self-regulation. Nationally and internationally known for her neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies in drug addiction, Dr. Goldstein formulated a theoretical model known as Impaired Response Inhibition and Salience Attribution (iRISA). The model uses multiple neuroimaging modalities—including MRI, EEG/ERP, PET—and neuropsychological tests to explore the neurobiological underpinnings of iRISA in drug addiction and related conditions. Dr. Goldstein became fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) in January 2015, receiving the prestigious Joel Elkes Research Award in 2012 and the Jacob P. Waletzky Award in 2013.
 
Learning points:
 
1. Identify the core neuropsychological mechanisms (response inhibition, salience attribution, and self-awareness/insight into illness) underlying the clinical symptomatology of drug addiction
2. Recognize the contribution of compromises in brain function and structure to human cocaine addiction
3. Is there recovery of brain function and structure in addiction?
 
For Physicians: CME credit will be given.

For Psychologists: The Oklahoma State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, the American Psychological Association and the Oklahoma Psychological Association recognizes AMA PRA Category 1 credit™.  

For Social Workers: This event has been approved by the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Social Workers for 1 hour Category 1Clinical.  (CEP Number - 20150007)

For LPCs and LMFTs: An application has been made to the State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure (BBHL) for 1 hour of CE.

For CADCs and LADCs: Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma, is accredited as a provider of continuing chemical dependency education by the State of Oklahoma - Board of Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors for 1 hour of CE.                                     

 
REGISTER TO ATTEND!
Email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com

​Dr. Amanda Morris will present an overview of how parents, caregivers, and educators influence children’s emotion regulation in the brain. The key themes that will be discussed are: (a) how adults’ influence emotion regulation across development, in infancy, childhood and adolescence, (b) positive techniques for responding to children’s emotional displays, (c) behaviors to avoid when interacting with children when they are emotional, and (c) how adults’ responses to children’s emotions impact later development and mental health.
 
Dr. Morris is a developmental scientist and the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Child Development at Oklahoma State University. She studied psychology at Temple University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental psychology at Arizona State University. In October of 2015, Dr. Morris joined LIBR as a co-investigator for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, a landmark nation-wide study of adolescent brain development funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is also part of Tulsa’s Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA) and is conducting a study of parent-adolescent inter-brain activity.   

William K. Warren, Jr.  Frontiers in Neuroscience Lecture
Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

11:00am - 11:45 pm    Registration and Lunch (Please register and arrive by 11:45 for lunch)
12:00pm - 1:00 pm      Program
 
“Intergenerational Risk: Direct and Indirect Effects of Parental Adverse Childhood Experience on Child Biobehavioral Regulation”
 
Jennifer Hays-Grudo, PhD, is a Regents professor of Human Development and Family Science and an adjunct professor of Pediatrics at Oklahoma State University. Prior to joining OSU in July of 2013, she was a George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) Chair in Community Medicine at OU-Tulsa. Since 2008, Dr. Hays-Grudo has been involved with the Tulsa Children’s Project, a GKFF-funded collaboration between OU-Tulsa, Harvard’s Center for the Developing Child, Tulsa Educare, and other community partners in designing and implementing a highly integrated set of interventions to reduce the effects of intergenerational poverty and adversity on young children. Before coming to Oklahoma, she was on the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where she led the Office of Health Promotion, held numerous NIH grants on health behavior in high-risk populations and was the principal investigator of the Baylor’s clinical center for the Women’s Health Initiative. Dr. Hays-Grudo is currently the Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA), an $11.3M, five-year NIH grant that builds capacity for federally-funded research addressing the immediate and long-term effects of trauma and poverty on children’s health and development.
 
Learning points:

1. Know the current research findings on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s).
2. Understand potential mechanisms of intergenerational transmissions of ACE’s.
3. Be familiar with novel approaches to treat effects of childhood trauma.

 
REGISTER TO ATTEND!
 
To register, email:  Lauren Haguewood at lehaguewood@saintfrancis.com