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.
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.
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