William K. Warren, Jr. Frontiers in Neuroscience Conference

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Topic: “An Integrative Model of Personality, Emotion and Psychopathology”   
Presenter: David Watson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame
Where: Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Room
When: October 7th, 2014 from 12 noon - 1 pm

All are encouraged to attend!

Today LIBR had the honor of a visit from former U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy, a long time champion and advocate for the mentally ill.

He took a tour of the LIBR facilities and engaged in a round table discussion with LIBR researchers about future directions in research, how to implement findings into clinical care and ways to expedite new treatments.

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) was the signature achievement of Patrick Kennedy’s 16 years in Congress. Its passage in 2008 was the result of many years of perseverance to overcome institutionalized insurance discrimination against persons with mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

Drs. Paulus, Feinstein and Simmons are pictured here with Dr. Sahib Khalsa, MD, PhD yesterday at the 20th annual Zarrow Mental Health Symposium. Dr. Khalsa is a LIBR visiting scientist from UCLA and is both a psychiatrist and neuroscientist. Their talks during the session on "Improving Mental Health Through Neuroscience" sparked an increased interest from the community in the ongoing research efforts at LIBR.

The lectures were designed to help attendees (1) Understand that the way the brain systems become dysfunctional does not neatly fit into current diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders, (2) Learn about how the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoc) can be used to discover new biological markers for the assessment and treatment of psychiatric patients, (3) Learn about the concept of interoception and its relevance to mental health, (4) Identify the neural systems that process interoception and introduce research documenting how disturbances within these systems can lead to mental illness and (5) Learn about a novel behavioral intervention that aims to promote mental health.