FALL 2011 | SPRING 2012
Tuesdays | 12 NOON | Meyer 1-191
| DATE | PRESENTER | AFFILIATIONS | TOPIC |
| Sept 6 | Solange Brown M.D.,Ph.D. Host: Akira Sawa | Assistant Professor, JHU SOM Neuro Neuroscience | Deciphering the functional organization of cortical circuits through cell-type identity |
| 13 | Sharon Inouye,M.D., MPH Host: Karin Neufeld | Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair Director, Aging Brain Center Institute for Aging Research | Delirium in Older Persons: A Research Update |
| 20 | Karen L. Swartz, M.D. Host: Gwenn Smith | Associate Professor, JHU SOM Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | The Adolescent Depression Awareness Program (ADAP): Moving from Program Development to Evaluation |
| 27 | Tom Hyde M.D., Ph.D. Host: Akira Sawa | Chief Operating Officer, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Special Volunteer, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health | GABA Signaling Elements, Brain Development, and Schizophrenia |
| Oct 4 | O. Joseph Bienvenu, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Michael Smith | Associate Professor of Psychiatry, JHU | Is OCD an Anxiety Disorder, and What, if any, are OCD-Related Conditions? A Family Study Perspective |
| 11 | Jeannie-Marie Leoutsakos, Ph.D. Host: Cynthia Munro | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, JHU | Carving Nature at its Joints: Applications of Mixture Models in Psychiatry |
| 18 | Paul Worley. M.D. Host: Kellie Tamashiro | Professor of Neuroscience The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience Johns Hopkins University | Synaptic Signaling and Cognitive Disease |
| 25 | Barbara K. Lipska, Ph.D. Host: Mikhail Pletnikov | Staff Scientist at Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, GCAP, NIMH | Genome-wide and Candidate Gene Studies in Normal Development and Schizophrenia |
| Nov 1 | Joe Gallo, MD, MPH Host: Gwenn Smith | Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health The Johns Hopkins University | Mixing Methods to Understand Depression in Late Life |
| 8 | Antonello Bonci, M.D. Host: Akira Sawa | Scientific Director National Institute on Drug Abuse | Synaptic plasticity in the dopamine system: implications for substance abuse |
| 15 | Jennifer Reese, Ph.D. Host: Michael Smith | JHU Postdoctoral Fellow | Cancer and Sexual Concerns |
| 22 | Jason Brandt, Ph.D. Host: Cynthia Munro | Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | New Methods of Screening for Dementia |
| 29 | Hanna Jaaro-Peled, Ph.D. Host: Akira Sawa | Instructor, Program in Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, JHU | A Novel Approach in Modeling Schizophrenia in Mice |
| Dec 6 | James I. Koenig, Ph.D. Host: Kellie Tamashiro | Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center | A Stressful Pregnancy has Neurobiological Consequences for the Offspring |
| 13 | Takanari Inoue, Ph.D. Host: Akira Sawa | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Department of Cell Biology Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Center for Cell Dynamics | Intersection of Synthetic Biology, Lowe Syndrome and Ciliopathies |
| 20 | Igor Elman, M.D. Host: Gwenn Smith | Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University School of Medicine | Interfacing Stress and Reward Systems in Addictive and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders |
| 27 | HOLIDAY | ||
| Jan 3 | Charles Hoge, M.D. Host: Ray DePaulo | Senior Scientist, Walter Reed Army Inst of Research | Translating Research in Mental Health Policy During the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars |
| 10 | David Borsook, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Michael Smith | Director, Center for Pain and the Brain | Imaging the Crossroads of Pain and Psychiatry |
| 17 | Arnold Bakker, Ph.D. Host: Cynthia Munro | Instructor, SOM Psy Psychiatric Neuroimaging, JHU | Episodic memory on the path to Alzheimer's disease |
| 24 | Roland Griffiths, Ph.D. Host: Ray DePaulo | Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Human Studies of the Serotonergically Mediated Hallucinogen Psilocybin |
| 31 | Brooke H. Miller, Ph.D. Host: Akira Sawa | Departments of Neuroscience & Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute--Scripps Florida | MicroRNA Dysregulation in Psychiatric Disease |
| Feb 7 | Kerry J. Ressler, M.D., Ph.D. Host: Kellie Tamashiro | Emory University, Associate Professor, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Translational Neurogenetic Approaches to PTSD and Fear-Related Disorders |
| 14 | Jerome Frank Lecture Julia B. Frank, M.D. Host: Ray DePaulo Note new location: Hurd Hall | Associate Professor Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences George Washinton University | Persuading the Healer: Jerome Frank's Legacy in an Age of Evolutionary Biology |
| 21 | Kelly Brownell, Ph.D. Host: Michael Smith | Professor of Psychology, Epidemiology, and Public Health Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity; Yale University | TBD on Obesity and Public Health |
| 28 | Ralph Benedict, Ph.D Host: Cynthia Munro | Professor of Neurology, Phychiatry and Physiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences | |
| Mar 6 | Raj Narendran M.D. Host: Gwenn Smith | Associate Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | |
| 13 | John Gunderson, M.D. Host: Ray DePaulo | Professor of Psychiatry , Director, Psychosocial & Personality Research | |
| 20 | Suzanne Haber, Ph.D. Host: Gwenn Smith | Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology, Neurobiology and Anatomy and Brain/Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine | |
| 27 | L. Fredrik Jarskog, M.D. Host: Akira Sawa | Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Research Director, North Carolina Psychiatric Research Clinic | Therapeutic Targeting of GABAergic and Synaptic Deficits in Schizophrenia for Potential Pro-cognitive Effects |
| Apr 3 | Gary Wand, M.D. | The Alfredo Rivière and Norma Rodriguez de Rivière Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism, JHU SOM | Cortisol and Mesolimbic Dopamine |
| 10 | Randy Buckner, Ph.D Host: Cynthia Munro | Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience, Harvard University Director, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Exploring the Large-Scale Architecture of the Human Brain |
| 17 | Carol A. Shively, Ph.D. Host: Kellie Tamashiro | Professor, Dept of Pathology/Comparative Medicine, Wake Forest University Primate Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine | Social Stress, Depression, and Cardiometabolic Health in Female Primates |
| 24 | Sophia Vinogradov, M.D. Host: Akira Sawa | Interim Associate Chief of Staff at San Francisco VA Medical Center, Interim Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry at UCSF | |
| May 1 | Martin Pomper, MD, PhD. Host: Gwenn Smith | William R. Brody Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, Pharmacology, JHUSOM | |
| 8 | Kenneth Silverman, Ph.D. Host: Michael Smith | Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins,Center For Learning and Health | Maintenance of Reinforcement to Address the Chronic Nature of Drug Addiction |
| 15 | Timothy Salthouse, Ph.D. Host: Cynthia Munro | Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology | Aging and Cognitive Change |
| 22 | Janet DiPietro, Ph.D. Host: Kellie Tamashiro | Professor,Associate Dean for Research | The Johns Hopkins Fetal Neurobehavioral Development Project: From Fetus to Child |
| 29 | Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. Host: Ray DePaulo | Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Director, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry & Neurosciences University of California, San Diego | Successful Aging and Wisdom |





