The Winnipeg Chapter Society Neuroscience would like to make you aware of the following…

COLLOQUIUM

The Department of Clinical Health Psychology

is pleased to present

Dr. Devin Mueller & Dr. Shawn Cahill
Assistant Professors, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Pharmacotherapy for fear/anxiety disorders and addiction: Basic mechanisms to clinical practice

Part 1:  Enhancing extinction and inhibiting retrieval of fear and drug seeking

Part 2: Translation and clinical practice with exposure therapy

Friday, January 21, 2011

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Basic Medical Sciences Building – 745 Bannatyne Avenue

Theatre B

Dr. Mueller studies the neural mechanisms of learning and memory as they pertain to drug use and emotional regulation.  He is particularly interested in understanding how to overcome drug seeking and learned fear in order to inform treatment for addiction and fear/anxiety disorders. His work has been recognized internationally, and has been recently highlighted by several news agencies for groundbreaking work on pharmacotherapeutics for treatment of cocaine addiction.  He serves as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and as a reviewer for several journals in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry.  He is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Growth Initiative. 

Dr. Cahill is interested in understanding the nature and treatment of anxiety and other emotional reactions to stress, such as anger reactions. He has a particular interest in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and panic in adults. His research program is focused on identifying therapeutic procedures that alleviate dysfunctional anxiety and other emotional reactions and understanding the psychological and biological mechanism that are responsible for the reduction of these reactions.

An abstract of this colloquium can be obtained by emailing

Ariane Bruyere at abruyere@hsc.mb.ca.

All are welcome