The Semel Institute at UCLA is pleased to present Psychiatry Grand Rounds, our weekly educational conference that brings you cutting-edge information about the clinical neurosciences, human behavior, and mental health care. The conferences are held in the West Auditorium at the Institute on the UCLA campus, and have been webcast online since 1996 with streaming video.

We hope you'll attend these programs in person whenever possible, and use the webcast and podcast editions to enhance your learning experience.
-- Ian A. Cook, MD, Course Director

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  January 2013
8 Zoobiquity: What Comparative Psychopathology Can Teach Us about Mental Health
Barbara J. Natterson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
CME
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15 DISTINGUISHED VISITING SPEAKERS SERIES: Understanding Job Burnout
Christina Maslach, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
University of California, Berkeley
CME
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22 Martin Luther King Holiday - NO GRAND ROUNDS

29 Clock Genes, Behavioral Rhythms, and Human Health
Gene D. Block
Chancellor, UCLA
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Science
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
CME
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  February 2013
5 NO GRAND ROUNDS

12 The Neurobiology of Social Rejection and Connection
Naomi Eisenberger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, UCLA
CME
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19 President's Day Holiday - NO GRAND ROUNDS

26 MURRAY JARVIK MEMORIAL LECTURE:
Translational Medication Development for Nicotine Addiction

Caryn Lerman, PhD
Mary W. Calkins Professor
Dept. of Psychiatry and Annenberg Public Policy Center
Deputy Director, Abramson Cancer Center
University of Pennsylvania
CME
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  March 2013
5 Personal Reflections of Memories Lost: the Future of Alzheimer's Disease
William Reichman, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
President and CEO, Baycrest Health Sciences
Toronto, CA
CME
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12 DENNIS CANTWELL MEMORIAL LECTURE:
Preschool Depression: Early Experience and Brain Development
Joan Luby, MD
Professor of Psychiatry (Child)
Director, Early Emotional Development Program
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
CME
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19 RESIDENT PSYCHOTHERAPY EXAM - NO GRAND ROUNDS

26 NO GRAND ROUNDS


  April 2013
2 Research Insights into Teen Sleep
Andrew J. Fuligni, PhD
Director, Adolescence, Ethnicity and Immigration Research Program
Professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine and Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior UCLA
CME
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9 Long-Term In-Patient Treatment of Complicated Patients When Outpatient Treatment is not Enough
Eric M. Plakun, MD
Director of Admissions and Professional Relations
The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA
CME
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16 Mind-Body Exercise for Treatment and Prevention of Caregiver Stress and Mood Disorders in Later Life
Helen Lavretsky, M.D., M.S.
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Late-life mood, stress, and wellness research program
Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA
CME
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23 THE RICHARD ROSEN MEMORIAL LECTURE:
Neurotherapeutic Interventions in Psychiatry

Darin D Dougherty, MD MSc
Director, Division of Neurotherapeutics, Department of Psychiatry MGH
Associate Director, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Group, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
CME
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30 Current Research at UCLA on Brain Stimulation and Neuromodulation
Ian A. Cook, MD
    Director, UCLA Depression Research & Clinic Program
    Chief of Staff, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA
    Chair of the Faculty, DGSOM, and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences  
Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH
    Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program
    Medical Director, ECT Program
    Associate Director, UCLA Center on Aging
    Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences  
Alexander Bystritsky, MD, PhD
    Director, Anxiety Disorder Program
    Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
All at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and the
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
CME
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  May 2013
7 GREENBLATT MEMORIAL LECTURE:
STRIKING ACCORD: AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL BASED ON ATTACHMENT AND NARRATIVE

Gene Beresin, MD
Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training,
Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital
Director MGH Center for Mental Health and Media
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
CME
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14 NO GRAND ROUNDS (SOBP Meeting week)
21 NO GRAND ROUNDS - APA CONFERENCE
28 NO GRAND ROUNDS - Memorial Day

  June 2013
4 NO GRAND ROUNDS
11 Plaque and Tangle Imaging in the Early Detection of Dementia
Linda Ercoli, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Psychology
Director, Geriatric Psychology Service
Director, Geriatric Pyschology Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program
Semel Institute, UCLA
CME
18 TBD


All Institute Grand Rounds are held in the Louis Jolyon West Auditorium (C8-183) in the Semel Institute building at 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles CA 90024 (Google Map), routinely on Tuesdays. Unless otherwise indicated, the presentation will begin at 11:00 AM, and coffee will be served in the auditorium foyer at 10:45.

Grand Rounds presentations are archived and available on this site. If a presentation has been archived, its title will appear as a hyperlink; if the title is not a hyperlink, then either it has not been archived yet or the speaker declined to permit webcasting.

For more information about our other educational programs, such as the UCLA Annual Review of Psychiatry in November please call the Office of Professional and Community Education at (310) 206-9299, or send email to