The Science of Stress: Focus on the Brain, Breaking Bad Habits, and Chronic Disease

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Mary S. Harkness Memorial Auditorium
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT

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Learning Objectives

 

This course will enable participants to:

 

• Identify specific cellular, molecular and neural changes relating to chronic stress and adversity and to addictive behaviors
• Identify the stress, psychosocial and biological mechanisms that perpetuate addictive behaviors of smoking, excessive alcohol use and overconsumption of high calorie foods
• Evaluate new therapeutic targets that rescue adverse stress-related neurobehavioral sequelae, and improve bad habits and poor lifestyle choices
• Analyze latest empirically validated behavioral lifestyle interventions that improve chronic disease outcomes
• Evaluate the effectiveness of social interventions to prevent stress and addictive habits in adolescents and adults

Listen to exciting presentations and panel discussions by leading stress and health experts, including:

Your Brain on Stress: Maintaining the Balance Between Adaptions and Pathophysiology

Keynote Speaker: Bruce McEwen PhD Professor of Neuroscience, Rockefeller University; Director, Harold & Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology

Brain Systems Promoting Bad Habits

Trevor Robbins, PhD Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge

Stress and Enhanced Habit Formation

Jane Taylor PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology, Yale University

Ralph Dileone PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Yale University

Adversity and Stress Effects on Brain Development in Children: Early Pathways to Chronic Disease Risk

Panel Discussion:

Mary Dallman PhD Professor Emerita Physiology, Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco

Hilary Blumberg MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Child Study Center, and of Diagnostic Radiology; Director, Mood Disorders Research Program, Yale University

Linda Mayes MD Professor of Child Development, Child Study Center; Professor of Pediatrics & Psychology, Yale University; Special Advisor to the Dean; Chairman, Directorial Team, Anna Freud Centre, London.

Carolyn Mazure PhD Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; Director, Women's Health Research at Yale

Improving the Quality of Preventive Services in California Managed Care Organizations

Keynote Address: Robert Kaplan PhD Professor of Preventive Medicine, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Incoming Director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research

Medications to Rescue the Prefrontal Cortex, Decrease Stress and Overcome Bad Habits

Amy Arnsten, PhD Professor of Neurobiology, Yale University

Sherry McKee PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Yale Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory

Endocannabinoids and New Medication Targets for Stress, Pain, and Addictive Behaviors

Daniele Piomelli, PhD, PharmD Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, Irvine

Mindfulness and Behavioral Interventions to Decrease Stress, Addictions, and Disordered Eating Problems

Rajita Sinha PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Child Study, Yale University; Director of the Yale Stress Center

Carlos Grilo PhD Professor of Psychiatry, of Psychology; Director, Eating Disorders and Obesity Research Program

The Promise of Social Interventions in Improving Health

Kelly Brownell, PhD Professor of Psychology, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University; Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity

Reducing the Harm of Stress: Improving Habits Through Individual Control and Social Policy

Panel Discussion:

Jody Sindelar PhD Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Chair of the Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale University

Kelly Brownell PhD Professor of Psychology, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University; Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity

Jacob Tebes PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Child Study, and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); Co-Director, Division of Prevention and Community Research, Department of Psychiatry; Deputy Director, The Consultation Center

Catherine Panter-Brick PhD Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Jackson Institute for Global Affairs