We are pleased to announce our 13th annual two-day Psychopharmacology 2023 Master Class for clinicians, researchers, and trainees. The presentations will focus on mental patients who refuse treatment. Genetic tests, blood level assessments, and pharmacological combinations will be discussed as cutting-edge treatments. Participants will get many chances to talk to presenters.
Psychopharmacology 2023 Master Class aims:
Psychopharmacology 2023 Master Class will cover these topics:
- Explore neurobiology and brain function to understand neurotransmission’s complex sequence.
- Explore neurotransmitter circuits, transmitters and receptors, synaptic action, and gene transcription.
- The gene-environment interaction.
- The talk will focus on pharmacological therapy of schizophrenia and bipolar illness for prodromal symptoms, initial episodes, long-term maintenance, and treatment-resistant patients.
- New antipsychotics, therapy augmentation, and mood stabilizer usage will be reviewed. Genetic, epigenetic, and inflammatory aspects will be examined in depression’s neurobiological underpinnings.
- The latest clinical research guides antidepressant use.
- We will carefully examine ketamine, ECT, TMS, psychedelics, and augmentation for resistant and bipolar depression.
- Presenters will discuss diagnosing and treating anxiety, BPD, OCD, and eating disorders.
- Benzodiazepine hazards and advantages will also be discussed.
- We will study PTSD causes and treatments.
- We will carefully analyze blood levels, doses, and creative combinations to treat resistant psychiatric diseases.
- The importance of diagnosing and treating PMS, perinatal, and postpartum mental health issues in women will be discussed.
- The course will also cover the neurobiology and management of sleep disorders in psychiatry and alcohol, cannabis, and other substance misuse disorders.
- The newest geriatric psychopharmacology advances will be reviewed.
- We will address anxiety and anxiety-spectrum disorders and associated pharmacological treatments.
- Panic, social, and generalized anxiety disorders are included.
- We will examine new obsessive-compulsive disorder treatments and borderline personality disorder medications.
- The importance of diagnosing and treating PMS, perinatal and postpartum illnesses, and treatment-resistant PTSD in women will be discussed.
- Psychopharmacology for sleep disorders will be covered throughout the course.
- The meeting will also explore alcohol and substance abuse neurobiology and treatment advances.
- The latest psychopharmacology for children, adolescents, and the elderly will be discussed.
- We’ll emphasize the therapeutic partnership when administering psychiatric drugs in the course.
- We will also examine polypharmacy drug interactions and their risks and advantages.
Program of Psychopharmacology 2023 Master Class:
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023
- 7:45-8:15 AM
Registration
- 8:15-8:30 AM
Welcome Remarks
Carl Salzman, MD
- 8:30-9:15 AM
Neurobiology For the Practicing Clinician: Understanding Brain Function and Its Relevance To Drug Treatment In Psychiatry
Matcheri Keshavan, MD
- 9:15-10:00 AM
Mechanisms Of Action and The Development of New Antidepressants
Alan Schatzberg, MD
- 10:00-10:45 AM
Psychopharmacology Of Childhood and Adolescent Depression
Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, PhD
- 10:45-11:00 AM
Coffee Break
- 11:00-11:45 AM
Current Treatment for Schizophrenia: Prodrome First Episode, Relapse, and New Treatment Possibilities
Matcheri Keshavan, MD
- 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
What You Should Know About the Treatment of Mania and Bipolar Depression
Roscoe Brady, MD
- 12:30-1:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Roscoe Brady, MD, Matcheri Keshavan, MD, Carl Salzman, MD, Alan Schatzberg, MD, Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, PhD
- 1:00-2:00 PM
Lunch
- 2:00-2:45 PM
Brain Inflammation in Neuropsychiatry
Paulo Lizano, MD
- 2:45-3:30 PM
Neural Circuitry-Based Treatments in Psychiatry
Roscoe Brady, MD
- 3:30-3:45 PM
Coffee Break
- 3:45-4:30 PM
Decision Making in The Treatment of Resistant Psychiatric Disorders: From Blood Levels To Dosing To Treatment Combinations
Stephen Stahl, MD
- 4:30-5:15 PM
Panel Discussion
Roscoe Brady, MD, Paulo Lizano, MD, Stephen Stahl, MD
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023
- 8:30-9:15 AM
Rational Use of Benzodiazepines in Anxiety Spectrum Disorders
Carl Salzman, MD
- 9:15-10:00 AM
Sleep In Psychiatric Disorders:
Robert Stickgold, PhD, Anthony (Tony) Cunningham, PhD
- 10:00-10:30 AM
Coffee Break
- 10:30-11:15 AM
Digital Phenotyping in Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology
John Torous, MD
- 11:15 AM -12:00 PM
Difficult To Treatment Patients: Borderline Personality Disorder, OCD, And Eating Disorders
Carl Salzman, MD
- 12:00-12:45 PM
Panel Discussion
Carl Salzman, MD, John Torous, MD, Robert Stickgold, PhD, Anthony (Tony) Cunningham, PhD
- 12:45-2:00 PM
Lunch
- 2:00-2:45 PM
Effective Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Kevin Hill, MD
- 2:45-3:30 PM
The Psychopharmacology of The Reproductive Life Cycle: Premenstrual, Pregnancy, Lactation, And Menopause
Catherine Lager, MD, Marcela Almeida, MD
- 3:30-3:45 PM
Coffee Break
- 3:45-4:30 PM
Older People Are Not All the Same: Differing Approaches For Younger Old And Older Old
Carl Salzman, MD
- 4:30-5:15 PM
Panel Discussion
Carl Salzman, MD, Catherine Lager, MD, Marcela Almeida,MD, Kevin Hill, MD
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