This year's SOBP Annual Meeting will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Brendan Lim/Flickr Commons
Numerous current and former UCSF Psychiatry faculty members and trainees will be represented, including the following scheduled to present symposiums or have their research presented at one or more sessions:
Thursday, May 12
- Jamie Ferri, PhD; Judith Ford, PhD; Brian Roach, MS; and Daniel Mathalon, PhD, MD - Oral Session: Imaging in Psychosis: "Thalamo-Cortical Dysconnectivity in Schizophrenia" (3:30 p.m., Grand Hall CD-LL2)
- Tiffany Ho, PhD; Matthew Sacchet, PhD; Colm Connolly, PhD; and Tony Yang, MD, PhD - Oral Session: Development and Childhood Disorders: "Task-Positive and Task-Negative Functional Networks in Adolescent Depression" (12:45 p.m., Grand Hall CD-LL2)
- Aoife O'Donovan, PhD - Poster Session: Elevated C-Reactive Protein Predicts Depression and Anxiety Severity: A Population-Based Study (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
Friday, May 13
- Joaquin Anguera, PhD - Poster Session: Treating Late-Life Depression by Improving Cognitive Control Through the Use of Video Games (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
- Susanna Fryer, PhD; Judith Ford, PhD; Brian Roach, MS; and Daniel Mathalon, PhD, MD - Oral Session: Fear and Stress Studies: "Should I Stay or Should I Go? FMRI Response During Inhibitory Control in Clinical High-Risk and Early Illness Schizophrenia" (3:45 p.m., Grand Hall AB-LL2)
- Daniel Mathalon, PhD, MD - Poster Session: Mismatch Negativity and Repetition Positivity Deficits Implicate Deficient Predictive Coding in the Auditory System in Clinical High-Risk Youth Who Transition to Psychosis (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
- Matthew Sacchet, PhD; Tiffany Ho, PhD; Colm Connolly, PhD; Kaja Lewinn, ScD; Eva Henje Blom, MD, PhD; and Tony Yang, MD, PhD - Poster Session: Hypoconnectivity Among Resting-State Functional Networks in Adolescent Major Depression (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
- Owen Wolkowitz, MD - Symposium: Discovery of Diagnostic Biomarkers for PTSD: "Metabolism, Inflammation, and Cell Aging Markers for PTSD" (12:30 p.m., Centennial II-LL1)
- Owen Wolkowitz, MD - Oral Session: Fear and Stress Studies: "Blood Glucocorticoid-Related Immune Co-Expression Networks Associated With PTSD Diagnosis and Treatment Response" (4:30 p.m., Grand Hall AB-LL2)
Saturday, May 14
- Colm Connolly, PhD; Tiffany Ho, PhD; Eva Henje Blom, MD, PhD; Kaja Lewinn, ScD; Matthew Sacchet, PhD; and Tony Yang, MD, PhD - Poster Session: Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Amygdala in Adolescent Depression (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
- Lize De Coster, PhD; Daniel Mathalon, PhD, MD; Sophia Vinogradov, MD; Jamie Leung; Lisa Lin; Joshua Woolley, MD, PhD - Poster Session: The Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Oxytocin During a False Belief Task in Patients With Schizophrenia: A Functional MRI Study (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
- Holly Hamilton, PhD; Judith Ford, PhD; Brian Roach, MS; and Daniel Mathalon, PhD, MD - Poster Session: Mismatch Negativity, but Not P300 Abnormalities, Are Associated With Occupational Functioning in Schizophrenia (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
- Felipe Jain, MD - Poster Session: 4-Week Mindfulness and Guided Imagery Group for Depressed Dementia Caregivers: Feasibility and Candidate Neural Mechanisms (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
- Brian Roach, MS and Daniel Mathalon, PhD, MD - Poster Session: History of Cannabis Use Is Associated With Mismatch Negativity Deficits in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis and Healthy Controls (5 p.m., Grand Hall West-LL2)
- Stephan Sanders, PhD, BMBS - Symposium: Constructs, Dimensions, and Units: Exemplars of RDoC-Informed Research: "Genetic Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders and Neuropsychiatric Variation in the General Population" (1 p.m., Centennial IV-LL1)
- Matthew State, MD, PhD - Symposium: State of the Art in Biological Psychiatry: "The Genetics of Autism" (12:30 p.m., Regency V-LL1)
Schedule information provided by the Society of Biological Psychiatry. Presenters and presentations are subject to change without prior notice.
About UCSF Psychiatry
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine, with a mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service. UCSF Psychiatry has an organizational structure that crosses all major UCSF sites - Parnassus, Mission Bay, Laurel Heights, Mt. Zion, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health Care System, and UCSF Fresno.
About UCSF
UC San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division with nationally renowned programs in basic, biomedical, translational and population sciences; and a preeminent biomedical research enterprise. It also includes UCSF Health, which comprises two top-ranked hospitals, UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, and other partner and affiliated hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the Bay Area.
