Psychiatry Grand Rounds

The Psychiatry Department's Grand Rounds are typically held on Friday mornings, between September and June, in the Auditorium of the Connecticut Mental Health Center. To see the details of upcoming Grand Rounds, please visit the Department's web calendar.

Below is an archive of past Grand Rounds. Links will take you to a video of a presentation. The Department will continue to add talks as they are digitized.

2011-12 Grand Rounds

04/27/2012: Thomas Gutheil, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Law, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University: "The Yochelson Lecture: "Boundary Issues in Clinical Practice"
04/20/2012: Nora Volkow, MD, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH: "Addiction: Conflict Between Brain Circuits"
03/30/2012: Ronald Duman, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities, Connecticut Mental Health Center: "New Treatments for Depression: Keeping Neurons Alive, Healthy, and Connected"
03/23/2012: Amy Arnsten, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine: "Molecular Regulation of Prefrontal Cortical NMDA Circuits; Vulnerabilities for Neuropsychiatric Disorders
03/16/2012: Frederick Altice, MD, Professor of Medicine (AIDS) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Medicine: "Prison Release Interventions for HIV+ Prisoners: Treating Substance Use Disorders with Medication-Assisted Therapies"
03/09/2012: Rebecca Miller, PhD, MA, Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry; Ani Annamalai, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Claude Grazia, MSW, Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry (Social Work); Sarah Mourra, MD, PGY-4 Psychiatry Resident; David Sells, PhD, MA, Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry; Michelle Joy, YSM Medical Student, Class of 2012; Lila Fain, Occupational Therapist, CMHC; and John Strauss, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry: "Clinicians as People Writing About Patients as People"
03/02/2012: Carole Goldberg PsyD of Yale University Health and Director of the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response & Education Center; Gwendolyn Bassett, LCSW of the VA Medical Center; and Noemie Zador LCSW of the VA Medical Center: "Resident Grand Rounds: 'Goldmine or Minefield? A Workshop for Trainees on Managing and Understanding Erotic Transference'" (No video will be posted of this lecture.)
02/24/2012: Robert Alpern, MD; Ensign Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and Dean, Yale School of Medicine: "The State of the Medical School"
02/17/2012: Helena Rutherford, PhD, MSc, Associate Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center; with with Linda Mayes, MD, Professor in the Child Study Center, of Public Health, of Pediatrics and of Psychology, Yale University: "A Psychobiological Model of Parenting"
02/10/2012: Paul L. Wachtel, PhD; Distinguished Professor in the Doctoral Program of Clinical Psychology, CUNY: "Patient-Sensitive Therapeutic Communication and Evidence-Based Practice: Alternatives or Allies?"
02/03/2012: Marlene Schwartz, PhD; Deputy Director of Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, Yale University: "Creating Health Food Environments: What Mental Health Professionals Can Do"
01/27/2012: Ronald Stall, PhD, MPH; Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and Director of Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Research, University of Pittsburgh: "On Syndemics and Strengths Among Gay Men"
01/20/2012: Mary Carskadon, PhD; Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University and Director, Chronobiology and Sleep Research, Bradley Hospital: "Roots of Insufficient Sleep in Adolescents: Is Depressed Mood a Risk and Do Genes Play a Role?"
01/06/2012: R.H. Belmaker, MD; Professor of Psychiatry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel: "Individual Differences and Evidence Based Psychopharmacology"
12/16/2011: Peter Fonagy, PhD, Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London; and David Zuroff, PhD, Chair, Department of Psychology, McGill University: "Honoring Sidney J. Blatt, PhD"
12/09/2011: Carolyn Sartor, PhD; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: "Links Between Trauma, Alcohol Use Disorders, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Women"
12/02/2011: William Sledge, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Caroline Easton, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; Morris Bell, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; and Bruce Wexler, MD, Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: "Clinical Innovation in Psychiatry Honors"
11/18/2011: Akira Sawa, MD, PhD; Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University: "Human Cell/Tissue Engineering in Psychiatry: iN, iPS, and Olfactory Cell Technology for Clinically Useful Information"
11/04/2011: Myrna Weissman, PhD; Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Columbia University; Chief of Clinical-Genetic Epidemiology at NYS Psychiatric Institute: "Translating Epidemiology Into Familial Risk for Depression: A Yale Legacy"
10/28/2011: Marina Picciotto, PhD; Professor of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology, Assistant Chair for Basic Science Research in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine. Yann Mineur, PhD; Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: "The Skinny on Nicotine: How Nicotinic Acetycholine Receptors Regulate Appetite"
10/21/2011: Tian Xu, PhD; Professor and Vice Chair of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Center for Functional Genomics: "New Forward Genetic Screens in Model Organisms for Deciphering Genetic Basis of Behavior" (No video will be posted of this lecture.)
10/14/2011: Kathleen Bucholz, PhD; Professor of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis: "Substance Abuse Disorders in DSM-5: Empirical Basis for the Proposed Revisions"
10/07/2011: Hochang (Ben) Lee, MD; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine: "Being a Psychiatrist Among Surgeons: Toward Partnership in Research and Clinical Practice"
09/30/2011: Tyrone Cannon, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Clinical Psychology, Neuroscience, and Psychology at UCLA School of Medicine: "Developmental Disruptions in Neural Connectivity in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia"
09/23/2011: Gary Greenberg, PhD; Psychotherapist and Author: "Dragons Live Here, or DSM 5: A Report From the Front"
09/16/2011: Matthew State, MD, PhD; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, of Genetics, and Donald J. Cohen Associate Professor in the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine; Co-Director, Yale Program on Neurogenetics; Deputy Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry: "Sipping From the Fire Hose: The Genomics of Autism Spectrum Disorders"
09/09/2011: Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD; Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School: "Neuronal Epigenome Mapping in Developing and Diseased Prefrontal Cortex"

Resident Grand Rounds - Summer 2011

August 12: Andres Martin MD, MPH, Professor in Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center; "Your Very Flesh: A Glimpse into the World of the Tattooed"
July 29: Andrew Solomon, Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College and Author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression; "The Autism Rights Movement: Various Perspectives"
July 22: David Mintz, MD, Director of Psychiatric Education at Austen Riggs Center, Massachusetts; "Meaning and Medication: Psychodynamic Approaches to the Treatment Resistant Patient"
July 15: Panel discussion featuring Dr. Patrick Fox, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Whiting Forensic Division of Connecticut Valley Hospital; Dr. Mark Mercurio, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Chair of the Yale New Haven Hospital Ethics Committee and Director of the Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics; and Sue Asher, Director of Yale-New Haven Hospital Department of Religious Ministries and co-chair of the Ethics Committee; "Death with Dignity?: Physician-Assisted Suicide, Psychiatry, and the Right to Die"
July 8: Ralph DiLeone, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neurobiology, Yale School of Medicine; "Molecules and Neural Circuits That Influence Models of Obesity and Food Addiction"
June 24: C. A. Morgan, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; "The Science of False Memories: What Does It Teach us? Why Is It Relevant to Clinicians?"

2011

June 17: John Krystal, MD; Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, "State of the Department"
June 10: Commencement; Dennis S. Charney, MD, Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "Further Down the Road: A Prescription for a Career of Self-Fulfillment, Happiness, and Success"
June 3: Seymour L. Lustman Resident Research Awards; Ke Xu, MD, Yale Psychiatry Resident (First Place), "Understanding Stress and Addiction: From Single Gene to Systems Genetics"; Kalyani Subramanyam, MD, Yale Psychiatry Resident (Honorable Mention), "Brain Glucose Metabolism During Experimental Endotoxemia"
May 27: The Flynn Lecture; Carol A. Tamminga, MD, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, "Examining Learning and Memory Mechanisms in Schizophrenic Psychosis"
May 13: Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, Emory University, "Depression and Heart Disease: Is There Gender-Specific Risk?"
May 6: Rachel Yehuda, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, "PTSD: From Behavioral Neuroendocrinology to Molecular Biology"
April 29: The Yochelson Lecture; Robert Phillips, MD, PhD, Forensic Consultation Associates, "Understanding the Behavioral Motivations of Those Who Threaten, Approach or Assassinate Presidents of the United States" (No video will be posted of this lecture.)
April 15: James Noonan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Yale University, "Developmental Gene Regulation in Human Disease and Evolution"
April 9: Neuroscience 2011: Promoting Recovery with New Treatments

Representative Patrick Kennedy, Keynote Address
Joan Kaufman, PhD, "Genetics and the Brain"
John Krystal, MD, "Treatment of PTSD"
Matthew State, MD, PhD, "Common Genetic Factors Associated with PDD and Schizophrenia"
Ronald S. Duman, PhD, "New Mechanisms Elicited with Ketamine in Treatment Resistant Depression"
Deepak Cyril D'Souza, MD, "Glycine Site Drugs and Other Novel Treatments for Psychosis"

April 8: John Strauss, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Yale University, "Clinicians as People Writing About Patients as People"
April 1: Mark Gold, MD, Distinguished Professor and Chair, University of Florida Department of Psychiatry, "Obesity and Food Addiction: From Bench to Bedside"
March 25: Hedy Kober, MA, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University, "Craving and the Regulation of Craving: Insights From fMRI and Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies"

2009

March 6: Visiting Lecture: Beth Shinn, PhD, Professor of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University, "Causes and Cures for Homelessness: Families and Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities"
Feb 20: Visiting Lecturer: Deborah Hasin, PhD, Columbia University, "Alcohol Disorders: Comorbidity, Course and DSM-V Considerations"
Feb 13: Visiting Lecturer: Col. Charles Hoge, U.S. Army, "PTSD and Mild TBI in Veterans of Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"
Jan 16: Visiting Lecturer: Andrew H. Miller, MD, William P. Timmie Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of Psychiatric Oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University

2008

Dec 12: Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Smoking Cessation Among Adolescents: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go?
Dec 5: Visiting Lecture: Frank Yeomans, MD, PhD, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, An Evidence-based Psychodynamic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Nov 21: Yale Forum: Eleni Markakis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Of Mice and Men: A Tale of Two Stem Cells
Nov 7: Visiting Lecture: David Kupfer, MD, Thomas Detre Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Medical Comorbidity of Bipolar Disorder: Current Status
Oct 24: Visiting Lecturer Ken Thompson, MD, US Department of Human Services, Recovery, Transformation and Public Service: Will Psychiatry survive?
Sept 26: Visiting Lecturer: Luis de Lecea, PhD, Stanford University, Sex, Drugs and Hypocretins
Sept. 19: Visiting Lecturer: David Oslin, MD, U Penn Medical Center, Late Life Addictions: The emerging clinical challenge
Sept 12: Visiting Lecturer: Gary Sachs, MD, Harvard University, Director, Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, MASS General, Treatment of Bipolar Depression: Principles and Practice
June 6:Lustman Awards Winning Presentation
May 30: Yale Forum: Arthur Simen, MD, PhD, Department of Molecular Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Molecular Mechanisms Influencing Prefrontal Function in Aging Brain
May 23: Visiting Lecturer: Martha K. McClintock, PhD, University of Chicago, Human Pheromones and Social Scents: Regulation of Fertility, Sexuality and Emotion
May 16: The Flynn Lecture: Trevor Robbins, Cambridge University, Fractionating Impulsivity: Neural Substrates and Neuroplschiatric Implications
May 9: Visiting Lecturer: Karen Faith Berman, M.D. Section Chief, Integrative Neuroimaging, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, NIMH, Gonadal Steroid Hormones and Neural Mechanisms of cognition and emotion in Women
April 25: The Yochelson Lecture: Jeffrey Metzner, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, An Introduction to Correctional Psychiatry
April 18: Visiting Lecture: Brian Flay, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Oregon State, Dr. Flay's Lecture
April 11: Visiting Lecture: The John Strauss Group: Clinicians as People Writing about Patients as People
April 5: Annual Neuroscience Symposium - Stress, Resilience & Recovery
Opening Remarks
Dr. John Krystal
Dr. Joan Kaufman
Dr. Michael Sernyak
Dr. Ismene Petrakis
Dr. Kimberly Yonkers
Dr. Alex Neumeister
General Discussion
April 4: Visiting Lecture: Jeff Lyness, University of Rochester & Paul Kirwin, Yale Dept of Psychiatry, Creative Resilience and Aging: Dreams, Schemes and Themes from Music and Poetry
Mar 14: Visiting Lecture: Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Stanford University, Optogenetics: technology development and application to questions in neuropsychiatric disease
Feb 1: Visiting Lecture: Cindy Ehlers, PhD, Scripps Institute, Understanding Firewater: Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Alcohol and Drug Dependence in Southwest California Indians
Jan 11: Yale Forum: Sandra Alfano, PharmD, Chair, Yale HIC Committee, Research Involving Decisionally-Impaired Adults: Ethical Guidance in a Regulatory Void