​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