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Two Yale Psychiatry Affiliates to Speak at International Society for Research on Impulsivity (Virtual) Meeting

April 28, 2020

Two Yale Department of Psychiatry affiliates will give presentations at the 2020 International Society for Research on Impulsivity (Virtual) Meeting.

The three-day meeting kicks off Thursday, April 30 and will continue Friday, May 1, and Monday, May 4. Presenters will include Sarah Lichenstein, PhD, a Postdoctoral Fellow, who will present, “Brain-based prediction of opioid versus cocaine abstinence” during the April 30 session, and Stephanie Groman, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry, who will present, “Elucidating the role of orbitofrontal circuits in reinforcement learning and addiction-relevant mechanisms in rat.”

The will be held on Zoom. The link to log in is https://zoom.us/j/97339072127.

More information is available on the website of the International Society for Research on Impulsivity.

Organizers of the meeting from Yale include Sarah Yip, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center, and Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience.

Dates, times, speakers, and session topics include:

April 30, 2:00-3:30 pm

  • Monica Rosenberg, University of Chicago: “Predicting attention with functional brain connectivity”
  • Sarah Lichenstein, Yale School of Medicine: “Brain-based prediction of opioid versus cocaine abstinence”
  • Alex Dombrovski, University of Pittsburgh: “Hippocampal encoding of reinforcement, explore/exploit dilemma and suicidal behavior

May 1, 2:00-3:30 pm

  • Henry Chase, University of Pittsburgh: “Exploring strategies for resolving discrepancies in investigations of reward function in bipolar disorder”
  • Martin Paulus, Laureate Institute: “Latent variables underlying strategic adjustments during inhibitory processing”
  • Karolina Lempert, University of Pennsylvania: “The role of episodic memory in deciding about the future: Implications for health and pathological aging”

May 4, 2:00-3:30 pm

  • Stephanie Groman, Yale School of Medicine: “Elucidating the role of orbitofrontal circuits in reinforcement learning and addiction-relevant mechanisms in rat”
  • Alain Dacher, McGill University; “Impulsivity as a risk factor in obesity”
  • David Lydon-Staley, University of Pennsylvania: “Day-to-day fluctuations in sensation-seeking and implications for risky behavior”

The International Society for Research on Impulsivity is a nonprofit scientific society founded to promote research collaboration on impulsivity and impulse-control disorders by scientists around the world.

Submitted by Christopher Gardner on April 28, 2020