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Day 1: Knowledge About Responses to Trauma

December 13, 2002

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Northwest Campus Auditorium at Sunset Village
University of California, Los Angeles

Introduction: 8:00-8:30 AM

8:00-8:10 AM: Opening Remarks
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Vice Chancellor
University of California, Los Angeles
8:10-8:30 AM: Introduction
Allan Tobin, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, and
Robert Lemelson, Ph.D., The Foundation for Psychocultural Research and the University of California, Los Angeles

Session I: 8:30-11:15 AM: Overview: PTSD Clinical Phenomenology

Chair: David Kinzie, M.D., Oregon Health and Science University

8:30-9:00 AM: The multiple effects of severe psychic trauma: Cultural and Clinical Implications
David Kinzie, M.D., Oregon Health and Science University
9:00-9:30 AM: Neurobiology and treatment of PTSD
J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., Emory University
9:30-10:00 AM: The etiology of posttraumatic symptoms.
Mardi Horowitz, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
-----------Break: 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM------------
10:15-10:45 AM: From fear and horror to PTSD: What determines the longitudinal course of early stress responses.
Arieh Shalev, M.D., Hadassah University
10:45-11:15 AM: Cognitive behavioral treatments for PTSD.
Edna Foa, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Session II: 11:15-12:45 PM: Neurobiological Aspects of Fear, Anxiety, and Trauma

Chair: Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

11:15-11:45 AM: Role of the amygdala vs. bed nucleus of stria terminalis in fear and anxiety
Michael Davis, Ph.D., Emory University
11:45-12:15 PM: Sex- and Hemisphere-Related Influences on Emotionally Influenced Memory
Larry Cahill, University of California, Irvine
12:15-12:45 PM: Neurobiological and neuroethological perspectives on fear and anxiety.
Michael Fanselow, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
-----------Break: 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM------------

Session III: 2:00-4:00 PM: Cultural Constructions of Trauma

Chair: Laurence Kirmayer, M.D., McGill University

2:00-2:30 PM: Human resilience and adaptive aspects of PTSD: An anthropological and evolutionary view.
Melvin Konner, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University
2:30-3:00 PM: Failures of imagination: The refugee's predicament.
Laurence Kirmayer, M.D., McGill University
3:00-3:30 PM: Traumatic pasts: Conceptual and analytical lessons from the medical history of psychotrauma
Mark S. Micale, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
3:30-4:00 PM: Is traumatic memory synonymous with posttraumatic stress disorder?
Allan Young, Ph.D., McGill University

Session IV: 4:00-6:00 PM: Interdisciplinary Roundtable-1

Moderator: Robert Pynoos, M.D., M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles


Reception: 6:00-6:30 PM

6:30-7:00 PM: Opening Address:
Dennis Charney, M.D., National Institute of Mental Health
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