Events

In his research, Dr. Ian Gotlib examines psychological and biological factors that place individuals at increased risk for depression, as well as processes that are involved in recovery from this disorder. Dr. Gotlib is conducting research examining neural, cognitive, social, and endocrinological factors and genetics in depressed individuals, and applying findings from these investigations to the study of predictors of depression in children at familial risk for developing this disorder.

Dr. Carla Mazefsky received her doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University in clinical psychology after completion of her predoctoral internship at Brown University School of Medicine. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics before joining the faculty in Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2006. In 2009, she moved to the Department of Psychiatry.

The University of Pittsburgh Center for Sleep and Circadian Science (CSCS) Research Day is scheduled for Thursday, November 9, 2017 from 9 am – 6 pm. This event will highlight the innovative and transdisciplinary sleep research across the translational spectrum taking place here at Pitt and other local universities. It also provides us with the opportunity to network with colleagues. 

LOCATION: Please join us at the University Club located at 123 University Place on the Oakland University of Pittsburgh campus for this event. 

Although onset of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia tends to occur in late adolescence and early adulthood, these disorders are neurodevelopmental in nature. Neural and clinical precursors of illness may occur long before individuals meet threshold diagnostic criteria. In this lecture, we will take a trans¬diagnostic approach to discussing these precursors, and how they may be the key to early detection of elevated risk for onset of these disorders. We will first review the literature on clinical risk syndromes for psychosis and bipolar disorder.

Dr. Mary Phillips uses multimodal neuroimaging techniques to elucidate functional and structural abnormalities in emotion processing, reward processing and emotional regulation circuitries that are associated with specific psychiatric disorders, and symptom dimensions in individuals with mood and anxiety disorders.