Sarah K. Fineberg, MD, PhD, an instructor in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, will present a webinar on social learning in borderline personality disorder on June 14.
The free webinar, sponsored by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, begins at 2:00 pm. Registration is available at this link. The hour-long session is available by phone or on the web.
It is part of the foundation's monthly "Meet the Scientist" series. Fineberg, a 2014 NARSAD grantee, will present "Social Learning in Borderline Personality Disorder."
According to her description of the talk, "People with borderline personality disorder can suffer from tumultuous social worlds in which other people seem unreliable or even threatening, and relational ruptures can be difficult to repair. These problems can profoundly impact personal and work settings. In this webinar, I will discuss the details of social learning: What do we expect about new people we meet? How do we respond when they surprise us? How do we respond when they are unreliable? Using new mathematical and neuroimaging methods, I will explore how these social processes may go awry in borderline personality disorder."
The webinar will be moderated by Jeffrey Borenstein, MD, the foundation's president and CEO.