Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment - Day 2 Schedule
Saturday, January 23, 2010

DAY 2 (January 23, 2010)

8:30—8:45
Summary of Day One
Douglas Hollan, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA; Member, FPR Board of Directors and Advisory Board
8:45–10:45
Session 4: Cultural and Biological Contexts of Bipolar Disorder

Session Chair: Douglas Hollan, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA; Member, FPR Board of Directors and Advisory Board
8:45—9:15
Bipolar Illness: Personal and Professional Perspectives
Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
9:15—9:45
Understanding How Functional Abnormalities in Brain Circuitry Relate to Mood Dysregulation in Bipolar Disorder
Mary L. Phillips, MD, Professor in Psychiatry and Clinical and Translational Science; Director of the Clinical and Translational Affective Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
9:45—10:15
Mania and Depression in American Culture
Emily Martin, PhD, Department of Anthropology, New York University; author of Bipolar Expeditions
10:15—10:45
Roundtable Discussion and Q&A
Douglas Hollan, PhD (moderator); Anne Becker, Robert Bilder, Kay Redfield Jamison, Emily Martin, Mary Phillips
10:45—11:15
Coffee Break and Poster Preview Without Authors (nos. 7–12)
11:15–3:15
Session 5: Cultural and Biological Contexts of Schizophrenia
Chair: Steven López, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, USC; Member, FPR Advisory Board
11:15—11:45
The Continuum of Psychosis: Cultural and Biological Risks and Benefits
Robert Bilder, PhD, Director, Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity and Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; Chief of Medical Psychology-Neuropsychology, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital; Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
11:45—12:15
Predictors and Mechanisms of Conversion to Psychosis in At-Risk Youth
Tyrone Cannon, PhD, Staglin Family Professor, Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Human Genetics; Carol Moss Spivak Scholar in Neuroscience; and the Director of the Staglin Music Festival Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UCLA
12:15—1:30
Lunch and Poster Viewing
1:30—2:00
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn R. Saks, JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law; UCSD School of Medicine
2:00—2:30
Shadows and Illuminations (film)
Robert Lemelson, PhD, President, FPR; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
2:30—2:45
Commentary
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, PhD, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Paul H. Patterson, PhD, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology
2:45—3:15
Roundtable Discussion and Q&A
Steven R. López, PhD (moderator); Robert Bilder, Tyrone Cannon, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Robert Lemelson, Paul Patterson, Elyn Saks
3:15—3:45
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
3:45–6:00
Session 6: Cultural and Biological Contexts of Anxiety-Related Conditions

Session Chair: Emeran Mayer, MD, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Director, Center for Neurobiology of Stress, UCLA
3:45—4:15
Interoception in Psychiatric Disorders: When the Brain Misinterprets Signals from the Body
Emeran Mayer, MD Professor, Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Director, Center for Neurobiology of Stress, UCLA
4:15—4:45
Culture and Panic Disorder
Devon E. Hinton, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Medical Director, Southeast Asian Clinic, Arbour Counseling Center, Lowell, Massachusetts
4:45—5:15
Unfamiliar Presentations of Familiar Symptoms in Ethnic Fijian Adolescent Girls: Implications for the Cultural Moderation of Eating Pathology
Anne Becker, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine; Director, Social Sciences MD-PhD Program and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, Eating Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Member, DSM-V Eating Disorders Work Group
5:15—5:45
Roundtable Discussion and Q&A
Emeran Mayer, MD (moderator); Anne Becker, Devon Hinton, Emily Martin, Kay Redfield Jamison

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