"The Impact of Peripheral Inflammation on Mood: The Mind and the Body are Connected”
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
Mark Hyman Rapaport, MD is the Reunette W. Harris Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Before coming to Emory, he was the Polier Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
A board-certified psychiatrist, Dr. Rapaport has written over 180 articles for such peer-reviewed publications as American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology. He currently serves as Co-Editor and Chief of FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. and the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Rapaport is a member of the American College of Psychiatrists, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Anxiety Disorders Association of America, the Psychiatric Research Society and the Collegium International Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP). He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the CINP, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is Past-President of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology and the current President of the American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry.
Learning objectives:
- Present the rationale for postulation that peripheral inflammation impacts basic function
- Review data about the impact of inflammation on neurotransmission systems
- Describe the state of current immune modulating therapies as treatments for depression