New Tools, New Hope: The Modern Face of Psychiatry
The 2018 Weill Neurosciences Symposium, held on November 9, 2018 and hosted by Weill Cornell Medicine, brought together neuroscientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences to examine the current landscape of psychiatry-related neuroscience research, highlighting recent advances and discussing key challenges facing the field.
Program Details
Morning Session
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dean Augustine M.K. Choi, MD; Sandy & Joan Weill
Current State of Psychiatry
Francis Lee, MD, PhD & Matthew State, MD, PhD
Neuronal Cell Biology
Timothy Ryan, PhD | Metabolic Vulnerability of Your Brain’s Communication System
Mark von Zastrow, MD, PhD | The Cellular Landscape of Neuromodulation: New Therapeutic Opportunities
Neuronal Circuits
Vikaas Sohal, MD, PhD | Rhythms in the Human Brain That Encode Real-Time Changes in Mood
Conor Liston, MD, PhD | Sustained Rescue of Prefrontal Circuit Dysfunction by Antidepressant-Induced Synapse Formation
Lisa Gunaydin, PhD | Fronto-Striatal Control of Approach-Avoidance Behavior
Joshua Levitz, PhD | Optical Interrogation of Synaptic G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Mazen Kheirbek, PhD | Hippocampal Circuits Supporting Emotional Behavior
Afternoon Session
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Rebecca Jones, PhD, MPhil | The Social Brain in Autism
So Hyun “Sophy” Kim, PhD | Charting the Symptom and Developmental Trajectories of Autism in Early Childhood: Clinical and Research Implications
Stephan Sanders, BMBS, PhD | Genomic Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder
Jeremy Willsey, PhD | The Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative: Identifying Convergent Functional Pathways in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, PhD | Chromatin Regulation in Cortical Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Helen Willsey, PhD | Identifying Phenotypic Convergence Among Autism Risk Genes Using CRISPR in Frogs
Closing Remarks
Costantino Iadecola, MD & Stephen Hauser, MD