2023-2024 Recordings

Session Description

Behavioral health evaluations in the pediatric emergency department (ED) have grown exponentially over the past decade. Several initiatives have been implemented to assess and assist in caring for children and families as they await evaluation and then treatment at next levels of care. QI projects will be reviewed, along with adaptations made in the ED and the various members of the multidisciplinary team within the context of a particularly challenging case presentation.

The learning objectives for this session are to:

• Understand the unique treatment components provided within a pediatric emergency department setting, in the current setting of pediatric boarding as expectation, not outlier
• Appreciate the challenges of providing crisis care for patients while boarding
• Learn about the importance of multidisciplinary care in an acute emergency service with multiple departments in play

Continuing Education

YCSC Grand Rounds are reviewed for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits on an annual basis and most lecture-style sessions are approved for the year. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available. Compassionate Care Rounds are not recorded to maintain confidentiality.

Session Description

When children receive treatment for anxiety disorders in clinical trials, approximately 50% benefit from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), while the other 50% remain symptomatic, even with enhanced treatments. Additionally, some children relapse after an initial positive response. To date, little is known about the individual differences between those who respond well and those who respond sub-optimally or relapse later. Single randomized controlled trials often lack the power to examine (combinations of) predictors of treatment success.

The iconic question posed by Gordon Paul – “What treatment, by whom, is most effective for this individual with that specific problem, and under which set of circumstances?” – was asked 55 years ago, and we are still not much closer to the truth in the field of child mental health. We urgently need data innovations to better support clinicians and families in assessment, treatment planning, and decision-making to improve outcomes for children and young people with anxiety.

In this presentation, several programs of work will be reviewed that have been in development at the Black Dog Institute, in collaboration with other partners, to move the field closer to offering personalized care driven by data.

The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Understand the efficacy of CBT in treating childhood anxiety disorders: Attendees will learn about the current success rates of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in clinical trials for children with anxiety disorders, including the challenges of relapse and sub-optimal responses.
2. Identify predictors of treatment success and relapse: Attendees will explore the individual differences and potential predictors that influence treatment outcomes, and understand why single randomized controlled trials may be underpowered to examine these factors comprehensively.
3. Explore data-driven innovations for personalized care: Attendees will review the latest programs and research initiatives at the Child Mental Health team at the Black Dog Institute aimed at using data innovations to support personalized care in the assessment, treatment planning, and decision-making processes for children and young people with anxiety.

Dr. Hudson will also be available to meet with members of the Yale community to discuss her most recent research related to children’s emotional disorders and digital mental health while she is on campus. To schedule a meeting, send an e-mail to Wendy Silverman and Alison Magnotti with your availability on Tuesday, November 12, 2024.

Continuing Education

This session is approved for Continuing Education Credit (CEC) by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information and instructions for earning CEC for this session will be provided at the live event.

YCSC Grand Rounds are also reviewed for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits on an annual basis and most lecture-style sessions are approved for the year. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available.

Patrick Luyten, PhD is professor of clinical psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at University of Leuven in Belgium, as well as a reader at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, at University College London in the UK. He is also a visiting scholar at the Yale Child Study Center, and will be providing this special lecture as part this role.

Dr. Luyten’s main research interests are disorders from the affective spectrum (i.e., depression and stress- and pain-related disorders), and personality disorders. In both areas he is involved in basic research and in interventional research. His basic research focuses on the roles of personality, attachment and social cognition or mentalizing, i.e., the capacity to understand oneself and others in terms of mental states, in these disorders from a developmental psychopathology perspective.

His research is fundamentally translational, as he is interested in translating knowledge concerning the mechanisms involved in the causation of psychopathology to the development of new interventions, the evaluation of their (cost)-effectiveness, and their dissemination to and implementation in routine clinical care.

In recent years, his research has increasingly focused on the development of interventions based on an integrative, evolutionary perspective rooted in the capacity for epistemic trust and salutogenesis, i.e., the capacity to derive benefit from the social environment.

His most recent book, Handbook of Psychodynamic Approaches, was published by Guilford Press in 2015 and received the 2015 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship.

At the Leuven Center for Irish Studies, he heads the Peace and Transformative Growth group. Research within this group focuses on the impact of trauma at both the personal and sociocultural level. Special interests include the role of resilience and transformation in individuals and groups faced with trauma as well as biological and psychosocial processes involved in the intergenerational transmission of trauma and resilience.

Continuing education will not be available for this special add-on session to Grand Rounds.

Session Description

This presentation will update attendees on evolving treatment paradigms for supporting the mental health of transgender youth across various stages of development. The learning objectives are as follows.

• Explain how the treatment of prepubertal transgender youth has evolved over the past two decades
• Discuss the rationale and current evidence base for pubertal suppression for transgender adolescents
• Discuss the rationale and current evidence base for gender-affirming hormone treatment for transgender adolescents

Continuing Education

This session is approved for Continuing Education Credit (CEC) by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information and instructions for earning CEC for this session will be provided at the live event.

YCSC Grand Rounds are reviewed for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits on an annual basis and most lecture-style sessions are approved for the year. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available. (Note: this session was not recorded.)

Session Description

In this presentation, an overview of the presenter's research program will be provided, exploring the correlates, causes, and consequences of parents’ well-being. Across multiple studies relying on experimental, daily experience, and longitudinal designs, this research demonstrates the importance of understanding and promoting parents’ well-being, not only to improve the lives of parents, but for their families as well.

The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Describe the three components of subjective well-being and meaning in life, respectively
2. Discuss why some parents are more or less happy than others
3. Identify the benefits of parents' well-being for parent-child relationships and family functioning

Continuing Education

This session is approved for Continuing Education Credit (CEC) by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information and instructions for earning CEC for this session will be provided at the live event.

YCSC Grand Rounds are reviewed for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits on an annual basis and most lecture-style sessions are approved for the year. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available.

Session Description

The presentation will address how policies and Programs that support Early Childhood Development (ECD) have a triple return on investment (Human Development, Community Climate Resilience, and Sustainable Development) and consider how ECD policies and programs can deliver on this promise. Actions being taken by countries and international institutions to elevate the importance of early childhood in the sustainable development policy arena will also be reviewed.

The learning objectives for this session are for participants to understand:

• that policies and programs supporting Early Childhood Development have a triple return on investment
• how ECD policies and programs can deliver on this promise
• what actions are being taken by countries and international institutions to elevate the importance of early childhood in the sustainable development policy arena

Continuing Education

This session is approved for Continuing Education Credit (CEC) by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information and instructions for earning CEC for this session will be provided at the live event.

YCSC Grand Rounds are also reviewed for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits on an annual basis and most lecture-style sessions are approved for the year. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available. Compassionate Care Rounds are not recorded to maintain confidentiality.

All in the YCSC community are invited to join this second annual opportunity to gather together and celebrate academic progression among YCSC faculty and staff. This will be in-person only again this year, held in the Cohen Auditorium. Refreshments will be served, and YCSC Chair Linda Mayes will welcome all to this social event.

The following people will be recognized for recent promotion, as finalized and approved in fiscal year 2024, i.e., 7/1/23-7/1/24, with anyone approved after July 1, 2024 to be recognized next year.

• Benedicte Aarestrup

• Michael Bloch

• Christina Cipriano

• Nancy Close

• Nicole Elbertson

• Jessica Hoffman

• Karim Ibrahim
• Rachel Kabari

• Danica Kelly

• David Lewkowicz

• Angelina Vernetti
• Sherayna Young

This special session in recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month will be focused on the 2024 national theme, Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together. As with the YCSC Black History Month Grand Rounds, volunteers from the YCSC community (faculty, staff, and trainees) will share ways in which they are shaping the future as a Latine person. This may include practices and interventions anchored in Latine culture in the therapy and research space, individual innovations, participation in committees or activities at the YCSC or in the broader community that are shaping the future, and/or unique experiences of being Latine and part of the YCSC.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available. Additional details and speakers for this session will be added as soon as they are confirmed.

Session Description

Black children in the United States disproportionately experience early childhood adversity and toxic stress, which can lead to long-term negative physical and mental health outcomes. Mothers are traditionally enrolled in intervention programs to help address this while fathers typically are not. This presentation will highlight research focused on increasing the engagement of Black fathers in such programs to help improve outcomes for young Black children.

The learning objectives for this talk are to:

1. Discuss psychosocial strengths and stressors associated with Black fatherhood
2. Identify the benefits of Black fathers' positive engagement in the perinatal and early childhood periods
3. Describe strategies for conducting community-based participatory research and collaborative team science

Continuing Education

This session is approved for Continuing Education Credit (CEC) by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information and instructions for earning CEC for this session will be provided at the live event.

YCSC Grand Rounds are reviewed for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits on an annual basis and most lecture-style sessions are approved for the year. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available.

Session Description

In this session, the impact of trauma across early development on child and adolescent development and psychopathology will be reviewed, as well the historical and current challenges to diagnostic and treatment specificity in youth with complex trauma. Dr. Havens will also cover the importance of trauma-informed care in child psychiatric settings and the processes for systematic and sustainable implementation of trauma-informed care in inpatient settings. The learning objectives for this session are to understand the:

• Impact of trauma across early development on child and adolescent development and psychopathology

• Historical and current challenges to diagnostic and treatment specificity in youth with complex trauma
• Importance of and processes for systematic and sustainable implementation of trauma-informed care in inpatient settings

Continuing Education

This session is approved for Continuing Education Credit (CEC) by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information and instructions for earning CEC for this session will be provided at the live event.

YCSC Grand Rounds are also reviewed for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits on an annual basis and most lecture-style sessions are approved for the year. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available.

Join YCSC Chair Linda Mayes, MD for this traditional welcome back session to kick off the 2024-2025 Grand Rounds series. This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

YCSC Grand Rounds sessions are typically presented in the Cohen Auditorium at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays from September through June, with a live stream available via Zoom. Internal participants are encouraged to attend sessions in person​​​​​. Recordings are posted on-line as soon as they are available. Compassionate Care Rounds are not recorded to maintain confidentiality.

Join the YCSC Grand Rounds committee in the courtyard at 230 South Frontage Road (with the Cohen Auditorium as the rain location) to mark the end of the department's Grand Rounds season with an Annual Juneteenth Celebration.

This year's event will include a book sale curated by Delores Williams from Bingham’s Books and Culture as well as the return of special guest Kenneth Joseph of St. Luke's Steel Band, who last visited to provide a talk and performance at the February session focused on Black History Month. YSM Deputy Dean and Chief Diversity Officer Darin Latimore will also join and provide a few remarks.

Established in 2022 by Dr. Krystal Finch, Belinda Oliver, Dr. Camille Cooper, Stacey Cannon and Tara Davila, this event has won the hearts of YCSC community members. Feel free to bring a folding chair to sit and connect with colleagues while listening to music and enjoying some culturally influenced treats.

Note: Due to technical difficulties and the widespread network issues across campus this week, this session was unfortunately interrupted and ended rather abruptly. As a result, the session has been rescheduled for December 3, 2024. View the YCSC Grand Rounds web calendar for details.

Session Description

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals experience among the highest rates of depression, anxiety, substance use problems, and suicidality of any population risk group. Methodologically innovative and rigorous research now shows that this disparity is almost certainly caused by the multiple forms of stigma that SGM individuals experience across the lifespan. This presentation will review theoretical and empirical advances in psychiatric epidemiology and developmental psychopathology that identify the mechanisms through which stigma compromises SGM people’s mental health that can also serve as promising treatment targets for identity-affirming psychotherapies. The presentation will then discuss the development, application, and efficacy of the first identity-affirmative mental health intervention for SGM individuals to be tested in randomized controlled trials. The talk will conclude by examining promising studies into the implementation of this treatment within SGM-serving settings locally, nationally, and globally with the goal of reducing the barriers to identity-affirming evidence-based treatment that this population has long faced.

The learning objectives for this talk are to:

1. Evaluate the epidemiology of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) population’s mental health in the US by listing the mental and behavioral health problems that disproportionately affect SGM individuals.
2. Assess the major determinants of SGM mental health in the US by defining structural and interpersonal stigma and providing two examples of each.
3. Analyze five behavioral treatment principles and techniques underlying LGBTQ-affirmative evidence-based practice.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Part of the Viola W. Bernard Fund for Innovation in Mental Health Care, the annual Viola Bernard Lecture Series addresses social justice and health care equity topics, named in honor of Viola Bernard, MD.

Session Description

This fully virtual session will focus on the following key areas:

• Understanding the Importance of Sleep in Early Childhood Development: Providers will gain insights into the fundamental role of sleep in supporting brain development, emotional regulation, and overall physical growth. The presentation will highlight the long-term implications of sleep deficits and the benefits of promoting healthy sleep habits from an early age.
• Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Healthy Sleep: Attendees will learn about the social determinants that contribute to sleep disparities, including environmental factors, socioeconomic challenges, and cultural practices. The session will explore strategies to mitigate these barriers through community engagement, parental education, and tailored interventions.
• Implementing the "Sleep Well, Bee Well" Intervention: The presentation will provide a practical guide to implementing this evidence-based intervention in clinical and community settings. Emphasis will be placed on fostering strong parent-child relationships through consistent bedtime routines and active parental involvement.

The learning objectives for this session will be to:

• Understand the importance of sleep in early childhood development
• Identify barriers to healthy sleep in historically marginalized populations
• Describe the potential of sleep health promotion interventions in clinical and community settings to improve sleep outcomes and strengthen parent-child relationships

This will be a fully virtual session, held via Zoom. Contact Una Casey for the Zoom registration link.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

There has never been more urgency to support the academic, social, and emotional health of children and adolescents in the United States (US). Despite the robust research evidence for universal prevention science practices and multi tiered systems of support, the discourse of the science of learning and development is situated within the politics and power of the US education system, wherein significant disparities in student experiences of social and emotional learning and their academic, social, and emotional outcomes persist.

Further, an increasingly polarized socio-political climate is diminishing the public's confidence in science and in some cases, producing misinformation that contributes to exclusionary and inequitable educational experiences or policies for some students, schools, and families. Improving the conditions for student learning and thriving in the US requires immediate, intentional, and preventative action that advances equity for with and through the science of learning and development. The learning objectives for this session are for participants be able to:

1. Articulate operational definitions of equity, inclusion, and marginalization in the context of prevention science research and practices.
   
2. Explain the intersection of politics and the science of learning and development.
3. Identify critical opportunities and corresponding strategies for advancing equity for, with, and through the science of learning and development.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

The Heritage and Legacy Project is structured around the creation of "Heritage and Legacy," a 6 × 4 ft oil painting of 15 trainees (8 women, 7 men) from the Yale Child Study Center, painted between February 2020 and December 2022. Each studio sitting lasted approximately four hours and included an in-depth interview that was recorded and transcribed for qualitative analysis. Narrative inquiry was used as am analytic approach, a method that attends to unique stories and aims to make meaning out of individuals' life experiences. Individuals included in the painting represented different professional disciplines including child psychiatry, psychology, and social work.

The learning objectives for this session involve:

1. The unique methodology of using a collective oil portrait as the basis for a qualitative study using narrative inquiry
2. The impact of "before me" (Heritage) and "after me" (Legacy) on child mental health trainees
3. Advancements at the intersection of visual arts and psychiatry

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Established in memoriam to explore the interface between the arts and child/adolescent mental health, the multidisciplinary Max Ritvo ‘13 and Alan B. Slifka ‘51 Program for the Medical Humanities aims to improve the clinical experience of those affected by illness and strengthen the ability of providers to deliver compassionate care. It includes guest speaker and visiting scholar components, as well as culminating special lectures each spring.

Jointly sponsored by the Yale Child Study Center and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, the 2024 Ritvo Lecture will be offered in a hybrid format, held in person in the Cohen Auditorium and available via Zoom.

Description & Learning Objectives

People with psychosis experience loneliness at higher rates than the general population and identify loneliness as one of the most significant barriers to personal recovery. While many researchers have called for psychosocial treatments to specifically target loneliness for people experiencing psychosis, there are limited treatment models that provide direct recommendations for therapists working with people with psychosis.

In this talk, the concept of loneliness will be explored through a review of psychological and philosophical literature and through first-person accounts of psychosis. Additionally, the correlation between specific psychotic symptoms and loneliness will be reviewed. Following this, four key practice elements will be outlined, including addressing barriers to accessing the patient’s longing for connection, the loneliness of psychotic experiences, internalized stigma, and loneliness within the therapeutic relationship, that can serve to engage and reduce loneliness through psychotherapy.

Schedule

10:30-12:30 Presentation in the Cohen Auditorium and via Zoom
2:30-1:30 Lunch provided for those in-person
1:30-3:30 Case Discussion in-person only in the Cohen Auditorium

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

Endowed by the first director of training in child psychiatry at Yale, Samuel Ritvo, MD and his wife Lucille Ritvo in 2007, the annual Ritvo Lecture focuses on bringing modern psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thought to child and adolescent mental health practice, with a particular focus on its trainees.

Session Description

Acting as one continuously is not always the optimal state, due to an intrinsic tension between individualistic and synergistic forms of action that exist in many social situations. A novel theory of flexible multimodal synchrony highlights context as a key component that defines “pulls” toward connection and “pulls” toward segregation inherent to the social situation. Trait-like individual differences and relationship variables modulate the effects of these contextual motivations. Context, individual differences, and relationship variables provide the backdrop to the emergence of flexible and dynamical synchrony patterns, in several modalities– behavioral, physiological, and neural. There are several types of consequences of multimodal synchrony patterns: Self-oriented, social-oriented and goal-oriented outcomes.

In this talk, the speaker will provide several empirical proofs-of-concept of the theory and provide guidelines and ideas for future synchrony research. The next frontier in interpersonal synchrony research - studying human groups - will also be presented. The learning objectives for this session are to:

1. Learn of recent advances and gaps in biobehavioral synchrony research
2. Understand the principles of the flexible multimodal synchronization theory
3. Explore a new frontier in synchrony research: the human group context

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

Although it was long assumed that all cells in the brain had identical genomes, it has more recently been shown that each neuronal genome has hundreds of somatic mutations at birth, and more than a thousand by late in life, with point mutations accumulating remarkably linearly with age. Damaging somatic mutations that are shared by multiple cells in the brain contribute to risk of pediatric and adult epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder, and schizophrenia. The learning objectives for this session are to understand:

1. The concept of somatic mutation
2. Somatic mutation contribution to risk of autism spectrum disorder
3. That genomes are constantly changing

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information will be provided at the live event.

Session Description

Over the last several years, there has been ongoing and increased societal attention on topics like emotional wellness and mental health, the impacts of culture, and the challenges of social justice. Learn how to effectively communicate with and engage the public on topics at the intersection of neuroscience, mental health, faith, culture and social justice.

By the end of the talk, audience members will understand:

1. The tools and best practices for becoming a public intellectual, engaging general audiences on academic topics of public interest and relevance.
2. How principles of service leadership inform work that spans from the academy to the public domain.
3. How conversation at the intersection of brain science, mental health, culture and social justice can improve mental health awareness, approaches, and access to services.

This will be a hybrid session, held live and in person from the Cohen Auditorium and simulcast via Zoom.

Continuing Education

The 2023-2024 YCSC Grand Rounds series has been approved for eligibility for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Individual event designation details are provided at applicable live events.

This program has been approved for one Continuing Education Credit Hour by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Counselor, and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal. This session also meets the requirement for cultural competence. Additional information will be provided at the live event.