Imaging genetics: Exploring the interplay of genes, brain & behavior in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders

Ahmad R. Hariri, PhD
Director, Developmental Imaging Genetics Program
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Early Risk Factors and Developmental Pathways to Childhood Mental Health Problems

Marilyn J. Essex, PhD
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Wisconsin Study of Families and Work
Department of Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Emotional processing in pediatric bipolar disorder

Ellen Leibenluft, MD
Chief, Unit on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
Emotion and Development Branch
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program
National Institute of Mental Health
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Bethesda, Maryland

Stress inoculation and the development
of emotional resilience

David M. Lyons, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Neuroscience Institute at Stanford
Program in Human Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

The prefrontal cortex: Rules, concepts and cognitive control

Earl K. Miller, PhD
Picower Professor of Neuroscience
Associate Director, The Picower Institute for
Learning and Memory
Investigator, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

The neurobiology underlying the desire to take drugs

Nora D. Volkow, MD
Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institutes of Health
Rockville, Maryland

Modeling depression:  Building better animal models of psychopathology by selective breeding – lessons learned

Jay M. Weiss, PhD
Jenny Culbreth Adams Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine
Georgia Mental Health Institute
Atlanta, Georgia