Registration

Welcome Remarks
Carl Salzman, MD

Neurobiology for the Practicing Clinician: Understanding Brain Function and its Relevance to Drug Treatment in Psychiatry
Matcheri Keshavan, MD

Mechanisms of Action and the Development of New Antidepressants
Alan Schatzberg, MD

Psychopharmacology of Childhood and Adolescent Depression
Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, PhD

Coffee Break

Current Treatment for Schizophrenia: Prodrome First Episode, Relapse and New Treatment Possibilities
Matcheri Keshavan, MD

What You Should Really Know About the Treatment of Mania and Bipolar Depression
Roscoe Brady, MD

Panel Discussion
Roscoe Brady, MD, Matcheri Keshavan, MD, Carl Salzman, MD, Alan Schatzberg, MD,  Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, PhD

Lunch 

Brain Inflammation in Neuropsychiatry
Paulo Lizano, MD

Neural Circuitry Based Treatments in Psychiatry
Roscoe Brady, MD

Coffee Break

Decision Making in the Treatment of Resistant Psychiatric Disorders: From Blood Levels to Dosing to Treatment Combinations
Stephen Stahl, MD

Panel Discussion
Roscoe Brady, MD, Paulo Lizano, MD, Stephen Stahl, MD

Rational Use of Benzodiazepines in Anxiety Spectrum Disorders
Carl Salzman, MD

Sleep in Psychiatric Disorders:
Robert Stickgold, PhD, Anthony (Tony) Cunningham, PhD

Coffee Break 

Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology
John Torous, MD

Difficult to Treatment Patients: Borderline Personality Disorder, OCD, and Eating Disorders
Carl Salzman, MD

Panel Discussion
Carl Salzman, MD,  John Torous, MD, Robert Stickgold, PhD, Anthony (Tony) Cunningham, PhD

Lunch 

Effective Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Kevin Hill, MD

The Psychopharmacology of the Reproductive Life Cycle: Premenstrual, Pregnancy, Lactation, and Menopause
Catherine Lager, MD, Marcela Almeida, MD

Coffee Break 

Older People Are Not All the Same: Differing Approaches for Younger Old and Older Old
Carl Salzman, MD

Panel Discussion
Carl Salzman, MD, Catherine Lager, MD, Marcela Almeida,MD, Kevin Hill, MD