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January 28

Learning from the Past to Accelerate the Future: Next Steps and Remaining Challenges to Developing TMS for Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders

Daniel McCalley, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Standford University
January 31

The Origins of Schizophrenia

Renẻ Kahn, MD, PhD Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and System Chair of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
February 5

Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Dysfunction in Opioid Addiction

Ryan Logan, PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology and Director of the Sleep.Circadian.Neuroscience. Laboratory; Member, NeuroNexus Institute, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
February 7

Imaging and Fluid Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease: Applications, Implications and Complications in Anti-amyloid Therapy

Victor Villemagne, MD Levidow-Pittsburgh Foundation Chair in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Disorders and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
February 21

The Tertiary, Secondary, and Primary Prevention of Childhood Trauma

Paula Powe, MD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Director for the Theiss Center for Trauma and Early Childhood Behavioral Health, UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
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