Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital Conference Center- May 10, 2016
11:00am - 12:00pm Registration and Lunch
12:00pm - 1:00pm Program
Psychobiological Mechanisms of Fear Extinction
Alicia E. Meuret, Ph.D. is the Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center (ARC) and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Meuret received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Hamburg based on her doctoral work conducted at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University and the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.
Her research program focuses on novel treatment approaches for anxiety and mood disorders, biomarkers in anxiety disorders and chronic disease (asthma), fear extinction mechanisms of exposure therapy, and mediators and moderators in individuals with affective dysregulations, including non-suicidal self-injury. Dr. Meuret is the founder of the Capnometry-Assisted Respiratory Training (CART), a biobehavioral treatment for normalizing hypocapnia.
Learning points:
1) Learn about methodologies for manipulating and testing biobehavioral mediators in fear extinction therapies
2) Discuss psychophysiological moderators of treatment outcome for anxiety disorders
3) Exploring mechanisms of change in novel RDoC-based interventions for targeting threat and reward sensitivity
To register for this event, email smjenerowitz@saintfrancis.com. Lunch will be provided to registered guests. The William K. Warren Jr. "Frontiers in Neuroscience" Conference Series is free and open to the public.