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Brain Pathways to Recovery from Alcohol Dependence (Tentative Agenda)
NIAAA Satellite Symposium to Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
8:30 am - Welcome / Introduction
Session I: Negative Affect Associated with Alcohol Abstinence
8:50 am - Compulsive alcohol seeking driven by negative emotional states associated with alcohol abstinence
George Koob, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, the Scripps Research Institute
9:20 am - Disrupted stress-related mPFC/ACC activity jeopardizes alcohol recovery
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Interdisciplinary Stress Center, Yale University
9:50 am - Glia-neuron communication in sleep disorders associated with alcoholism
Mahesh Thakkar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri Health System
10:20 am - Break
Session II: Cognitive Function Deficit and Recovery
10:35 am - Persistent increases in TLR signaling and reversal learning deficits in abstinence
Fulton Crews, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Director, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina
11:05 am - Plasticity of the mPFC and protracted deficit in executive
Judson Chandler, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs, Medical University of South Carolina
11:35 am - Recovery of cognitive deficit in alcoholism
Adolf Pfefferbaum, M.D., Director, Neuroscience Program, Center for Health Sciences, SRI International
12:05 am - Lunch Break
Session III: Neuroadaptation During Abstinence
1:15 pm - Genetic influences and gene expression changes associated with alcohol dependence, withdrawal, and relapse drinking
Howard Becker, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Director, Charleston Alcohol Research Center, Medical University of South Carolina
1:45 pm - Neuroadaptation of the striatum associated with relapse drinking during early and protracted abstinence
David Lovinger, Ph.D., Senior Investigator and the Chief of the Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, NIAAA
2:15 pm - Promoting abstinence by decreasing the impact of drug-associated memories through reconsolidation blockade
Barry Everitt, Sc D, FRS, F Med Sci, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
2:45 pm - Break
Session IV: Neuromechanisms of Treatment
3:00 pm - Relationship between cortical gliogenesis and alcohol use disorders: new avenues for novel therapies
Chittra Mandyam, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders, the Scripps Research Institute
3:30 pm - Resting-state synchrony: a potential target for a neurofeedback treatment of alcoholism
George Fein, Ph.D., Senior Scientists, President, Neurobehavioral Research Inc.
4:00 pm - Using neuroimaging approaches to investigate treatment mechanisms
Marc N Potenza PhD, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Child Study and Neurobiology, Yale University
4:30 pm Panel Discussion
Panelists include all the speakers and Drs. Kathy Grant, Adron Harris, Patricia Janak, Tom Kash, Dieter Meyehoff, Marisa Roberto, Dorit Ron, and Edith Sullivan.
