Program: Biological/Neuroscience

Biological/Neuroscience Flash Talks
Flash Talk
Thursday May 25, 2023
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Speakers: Wadim Vodovozov, Jessica Reid, Mike Le Pelley, Bradley Jack, Kevin Spencer, Thomas Whitford, Tina Chou, Ashley Hayden, Marina Long, Thilo Deckersbach, Darin Dougherty, Krista Ekberg, Monika Waszczuk, Jan Mooney, Leah Lipsky, Jennifer Webb, Tonja Nansel, Sonja Sudimac, Vera Sale, Simone Kuehn, Immanuel Samuel, Thomas Chacko, Kamila Pollin, Calvin Lu, Ryan Brewster, John Barrett, Matthew Reinhard, Michelle Costanzo, Gordon Broderick

Pleasure, Desire, and Addiction in the Brain
Invited Address
Friday May 26, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Speakers: Kent Berridge

Biological Psychology of Racial Disparities in Dementia
Invited Symposium
Friday May 26, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Speakers: Keenan Walker, Mark Gluck

Emotional Well-Being: Can We Measure, Monitor and Modulate it in The Brain?
Invited Symposium
Friday May 26, 2023
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Speakers: Erin Quinlan, Emmeline Edwards, Kuan Wang, Thomas Foo, Kim Pauly

Flexible Decision Making
Invited Symposium
Saturday May 27, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Speakers: Alireza Soltani, Peter Rudebeck

Inflammation and Depression: Causal Relationships and Potential Mechanisms
Symposium
Sunday May 28, 2023
9:00 AM - 10:20 AMInflammation has been reliably linked to depressive symptomology in both human and non-human animal models. In this symposium, we will highlight how studies using a variety of methods (e.g., longitudinal association, ex vivo stimulation, rodent models, neuroimaging) are informing our understanding of the association between inflammation and depression.
Speakers: Sara Norton, Bondy Erin, Zhang Wei, Janace Gifford

Stress in the Adolescent Brain: Structure, Function, and Links to Psychopathology Risk
Symposium
Sunday May 28, 2023
10:30 AM - 11:50 AMAdolescence is a time of increased stress, with critical effects on brain, behavior and psychopathology risk. This symposium presents research using multiple innovative methods to elucidate how stress impacts brain structure and function in adolescents, in ways that affect cognitive and affective processes implicated in psychopathology risk.
Speakers: Hannah Snyder, Alyssa Fassett-Carman, Harry Smolker, Hankin Benjamin, Banich Marie, Aysenil Belger, Sarah Glier, Alana Campbell, Rachel Corr, Joshua Bizzell, Cope Feurer, Katie Burkhouse