The Department of Psychiatry will host a Special Guest Lecture by Cameron Carter, MD on July 13, 2022 from 4-5pm. 

Dr. Carter is Distinguished Professor & the C. Bryan Cameron Presidential Chair in Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. His laboratory focuses on neural mechanisms of attention and memory, and on the pathophysiological processes underlying clinical disorders that involve these cognitive systems. Dr. Carter's research integrates behavioral, computational, and functional neuroimaging (fMRI, PET, ERP). His team is particularly interested in the relative contribution of the prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate to executive processes and the interaction of this circuitry with related brain regions involved in motivation, learning and memory. A second avenue of Dr. Carter's research concentrates on the pathophysiology of disturbances in cognition in mental disorders such as schizophrenia and OCD, with the goal of developing more effective therapies which can improve patients' chances of rehabilitation. He is also involved in the development of new treatments for cognitive disability in schizophrenia and other brain disorders. A key element of the philosophy of the Carter lab is that good clinical research can only proceed if it is being constantly informed by ongoing theoretical and methodological progress in basic cognitive neuroscience, and that the experiments of nature provided by clinical brain disorders may provide us with powerful additional insights into the neural basis of normal cognition.

We invite you to join us in person for this lecture in Room N277 at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital.

If you are unable to attend in person, please click here to join via Zoom and enter passcode 955738.

For More Information. Please contact Amy Noll at henricksa@upmc.edu.