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Past Series

Spring 2025

Speaker Schedule
Date Speaker Title
5/15/25 Yusuf Ransome, DrPH Mediating pathways between social connectedness and psychological distress in United States adults at midlife
4/24/25 Trace Kershaw, PhD Using technology to understand contextual stressors
3/20/25 Amanda Dettmer, PhD Causal evidence for the lifelong impacts of early adversity in Rhesus monkeys using varying matrices of stress exposure
2/13/25 Emma Zang, PhD Life-Course Exposure to State Policy Liberalism Contexts and Later-Life Cognitive Health
1/16/25 Steve Chang, PhD Prefrontal-Amygdala Circuits: Internal Modules for Social, Affective & Stress Behaviors

Fall 2024

Speaker Schedule
Date Speaker Title
12/12/24 Joy Hirsch, PhD Neural systems specialized for live dyadic human social interactions: Cues for stressful encounters
11/21/24 Arie Kaffman, MD, PhD Microglia: The Drunken Gardeners of Early Life Adversity (ELA)
10/24/24 AZA Allsop, MD, PhD Decoding mechanisms and creating tools for social connection and mental health
9/19/24 Wendy Berry Mendes, PhD The social body: Three short stories about measuring the body to understand the mind

Spring 2024: Stress and Substance Use

Date Speaker Information Title
February 8, 2024 Declan Barry, PhD , Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center “Co-occurring chronic pain and opioid use disorder”
March 14, 2024 Angela Haeny, PhD , Assistant Professor of Psychiatry “The impact of racial stress on alcohol craving among Black adults”
April 11, 2024 Sarah Yip, PhD , Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
 “Brain networks of addiction risk and recovery”
May 9, 2024 Rajita Sinha, PhD , Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience “Disruption of the adaptive stress response in addiction: Can it be rescued to improve treatment outcomes?”
June 6, 2023 Nii Addy, PhD Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology "Investigating the neurobiological mechanisms underlying substance use and mood disorders"

Fall 2023 Calendar

Date Speaker Information Title
September 14, 2023 Allura Ralston , Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Gender Program “The Role of minority stress in the mental health and well-being of transgender and gender expansive youth”
October 12, 2023 Xiaomei Cong, PhD, RN, FAAN , School of Nursing “The impact of early life stress on neurobehavioral development among preterm infants”
November 9, 2023 Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, ABPP , Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry “Training providers for the aftermath of War: The Unbroken and Superhumans Rehabilitation Centers, Lviv Ukraine”
December 7, 2023 Amber Wimsatt Childs, PhD , Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Rescheduling
December 14, 2023 Danya Keene, PhD Associate Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Yale School of Public Health “Housing insecurity, stress and health equity: Insights from the weathering hypothesis”

Spring 2023 Calendar

Date Speaker Information Title
February 16, 2023 Ralph DiLeone, PhD , Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience Mechanisms of motivation for physical activity
March 16, 2023 Ifat Levy, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Medicine Individual differences in decision-making under uncertainty
April 20, 2023 Al Kaye, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry Neuromodulatory circuit mechanisms in threat prediction and MDMA
May 11, 2023 Arielle Baskin-Sommers, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry The violence we see: Understanding how exposure to community violence disrupts learning and implications for violent behavior
June 16, 2023 Monica Ordway, PhD, APRN, PNP-BC Associate Professor, Yale School of Nursing Sleep Health: An understudied buffer to toxic stress in early childhood

Fall 2022 Calendar

Date Speaker Information Title
August 25, 2022 Gita Pathak, PhD ,Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Psychiatry Polygenic score of posttraumatic stress disorder highlights association with cardiovascular and respiratory traits in electronic health records
September 22, 2022 Brynn Sherman, PhD , Graduate Student, Department of Psychology Acute stress modulates hippocampal learning subsystems
October 20, 2022

Or Duek, PhD and Nachshon Korem,PhD Postdoctoral Associates, Department of Psychiatry

Fear conditioning: Pushing the envelope
November 17, 2022 Tony Koleske, PhD , Ensign Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Neuroscience; Deputy Dean for Research (Basic Science) Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Using genetic variants to understand TRIO function in neurodevelopmental disorders
December 15, 2022 Philip Corlett, PhD , Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry Paranoia and distress during the COVID pandemic

Spring 2022 Calendar

Date Speaker Information Title
January 3, 2022 Carla Stover, PhD , Associate Professor Child Study Center “Understanding early life adversity and the trajectory to parental use of family violence to develop interventions”
February 3, 2022 Matthew Burg, PhD , Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Section of Cardiovascular Medicine “Stress, Depression, and Chronic Disease: What Then Must We Do?”
March 3, 2022

Hilary Blumberg, PhD , John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience Department of Psychiatry Lejla Colic, PhD , Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Jena University Hospital

 “Childhood maltreatment: risk factor for developing bipolar disorder and gender differences in brain and clinical features”
April 7, 2022 Dustin Scheinost, PhD , Associate Professor Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging “Prenatal stress and the developing brain”
May 5, 2022 Uri Berger, PhD , Postdoctoral Associate Child Study Center “Failure to Launch guidance: Parent training for dependent, yet abled, young adults”
May 26, 2022 Joan Monin, PhD , Assistant Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) Yale School of Public Health “Interpersonal emotion regulation in late life relationships”

Fall 2021 Calendar

Date Speaker Information Title
September 9, 2021 Kim Smolderen PhD, MSc , Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Depression and Stress in Peripheral Artery Disease: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
October 7, 2021 Sarah Lowe PhD , Assistant Professor of Public Health (Social & Behavioral Sciences) Yale School of Public Health Risk and resilience in context: Socio-ecological and temporal factors shaping mental health after trauma
November 4, 2021 Shannon Whirledge, PhD, MSc , Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences Stress Signaling at the Maternal-Fetal Interface: Friend or Foe?
Rescheduled Ilan Harpaz-Rotem, PhD, ABPP , Associate Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry TBA

Spring 2021 Calendar

Date Speaker Information Title
January 21, 2021 Shivani Bhatt, MS , Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP), Yale University.,
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program		 Imaging the neural immune and stress systems in post-traumatic stress disorder
February 18, 2021 Jutta Joorman, PhD , Professor of Psychology, Yale University, Department of Psychology Stress, cognition, and emotion regulation in depression
March 18, 2021 Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD , Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale University, Department of Psychiatry Stress and multiple memory systems: Dynamic interactions and implications for psychopathology
April 15, 2021 Anahita Bassir Nia, MD , Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry Endocannabinoid system in relation to opioid use, stress and trauma
May 13, 2021 Dylan Gee, PhD , Assistant Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychology Leveraging the science of early life stress to promote mental health
June 10, 2021 Amy Arnsten, PhD , Kent Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, Department of Neuroscience The neurobiology of stress-induced prefrontal cortical dysfunction

Past Seminars

May 202515Thursday
Apr 202524Thursday
Mar 202520Thursday
Feb 202513Thursday
Jan 202516Thursday
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