Subject: Manitoba Psychological Society Spring Workshop on DSM-V
On Friday, June 7, 2013, the Manitoba Psychological Society is holding
its 2013 Spring Institute titled Developments in Mental Disorder
Diagnosis: DSM-IV, DSM-V, and the Road Ahead. This day long workshop
featuring Dr. Robert Krueger, a Hathaway Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota and a member of
the DSM-V Personality and Personality Disorder Working Group, will
address the following learning objectives:
1. To understand major aspects of the history of psychiatric
classification that led to the approach taken in DSM-IV.
2. To understand notable changes between DSM-IV and DSM-V, such as
the removal of the multiaxial system.
3. To understand both the DSM-IV (copied in DSM-V Section II) and
DSM-V Section III approaches to classifying personality disorders, as
well as the conceptual underpinnings of these approaches.
4. To understand notable limitations of the DSM paradigm, current
efforts to develop more empirically-based alternatives (e.g., the NIMH
RDoC initiative), and the reasons why new empirically-based approaches
are needed.
Please find attached a brochure (including a synopsis of the Institute
and a Speaker Bio) and a poster advertising the workshop, Online
registration for this exciting workshop is now available at www.mps.ca
<http://www.mps.ca/> .
MPS would like to thank Manitoba Public Insurance and the Worker's
Compensation Board of Manitoba for sponsoring this Institute.
Kind regards,
Lesley Ritchie, Ph.D., C. Psych.
Manitoba Psychological Society
Director of Continuing Education
Neuropsychology Service
Department of Clinical Health Psychology
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Health Sciences Centre
771 Bannatyne Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3N4
lritchie3(a)exchange.hsc.mb.ca
204-787-3878
Kelly Jorundson
Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience
R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
Tel: 204.235.3939
Fax: 204.237.4092
Email: kjorund(a)sbrc.ca OR kjorund(a)yahoo.ca
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Reminder: Registration deadline for the Will to Win Spinal Cord
Symposium is Friday, April 26!
Symposium details:
May 13 & 14, 2013
Will To Win Spinal Cord Symposium in Honor of Dr. Larry Jordan
"Spinal Motor Control: Neurons, Networks and Movement"
Inn at the Forks, 75 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Free parking available
Registration and information
http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/SCRC/symposium2013/
<http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/SCRC/symposium2013/>
Organizers: Brian Schmidt, Dave McCrea (Manitoba), Robert Brownstone
(Dalhousie), John Steeves (UBC)
Questions?
Contact: Sharon McCartney, sharon(a)scrc.umanitoba.ca, (204)789-3770
University of Manitoba, Spinal Cord Research Centre, Department of
Physiology,
409-745 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3E 0J9
We recommend you attend the following ...
This message is being sent to you on behalf of Dr. Hani El-Gabalawy and Dr. David Robinson
Drs. Hani El-Gabalawy and David Robinson invite you to attend the 34th annual Metro Ogryzlo Memorial Lecture scheduled for Tuesday, May 7, 2013 in the Frederic Gaspard Theatre of the Basic Medical Sciences Building at 8 – 9 a.m. This presentation will be linked to St. Boniface Hospital in room NG002, and via Manitoba TeleHealth to Victoria Hospital (4th floor CTU room), Grace Hospital (Lecture Room B), and Riverview Health Centre (Classroom B).
Our dynamic and inspiring speaker, Dr. Esther M. Sternberg is internationally recognized for her discoveries in brain-immune interactions and the effects of the brain’s stress response on health and illness: the science of the mind-body connection.
Physician and Medical Researcher, Dr. Sternberg’s discoveries have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. She has found that “the brain’s hormonal response to stress plays a role in the body’s susceptibility to autoimmune inflammatory disease, and to how severe it becomes”.
Dr. Sternberg received her MD and training in Rheumatology at McGill University. She was on faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo, (1980-86); Senior Scientist in the National Institutes of Health in Maryland (1986-2012) and is Research Professor at American University in Washington, D.C. She recently joined the University of Arizona’s Center for Integrative Medicine as the first Director of Research at the Integrative Medicine Center in Tucson.
Author of numerous original scientific and review articles published in leading scientific journals including Nature Medicine, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Scientific American, J. Clinical Investigation and Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sternberg is also a reviewer, editorial board member for many scientific journals, editor of several books, author of two best-selling popular books about her research “The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Heath” and “Emotions and Healing Spaces: the Science of Place and Well-being” and host of the PBS special “The Science of Healing”.
The National Library of Medicine has named Dr. Sternberg one of 300 female physicians who have changed the face of medicine.
Karen Kiel
Communications and Special Events Officer
Department of Internal Medicine
GC430 - 820 Sherbrook Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R9
Phone: (204) 787-7882
Fax: (204) 787-4826
Email: kkiel(a)hsc.mb.ca
Kelly Jorundson
Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience
R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
Tel: 204.235.3939
Fax: 204.237.4092
Email: kjorund(a)sbrc.ca OR kjorund(a)yahoo.ca
Brain Canada will soon request applications for Platform Support Grants
(PSGs) that are, "intended to contribute to the operating costs of
national or regional research platforms that serve large numbers of
researchers in the neurosciences". The draft request for applications
for this initiative
(www.braincanada.ca/files/Draft_RFA_for_PSGs_March_2013.pdf) makes it
clear that it will be essential to improve, upgrade, link and coordinate
existing infrastructure so that it works better and/or is more widely
accessible, ultimately accelerating neuroscience research. The
intention is to fund 10 grants at up to $1 million pa for 3 years.
Interested stakeholders, including researchers and funding partners, met
on April 12th and decided that the Manitoba neuroscience community is in
a position of strength to be active in this competition. We intend to
build an application that emphasizes our human brain imaging
capabilities. We have a nationally distinct portfolio of human
neuroimaging approaches, including Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI),
PET, CT, intraoperative MRI and soon combined PET/MRI. We also have a
new complementary core with strength in small animal PET, MRI, CT, IVIS
and 2-photon imaging, and numerous in vitro imaging capabilities
spanning several department and institutes. Supporting all of these are
core facilities in epigenetics, proteomics, experimental radiopharmacy
and others. It will be our position that we can bind our imaging
modalities together as a uniquely innovative offering of approaches to
facilitate neuroscience research from bench to bedside. At least, this
will be presented as a Provincial platform in neuroimaging, and it
remains possible with further development that the application could be
for a prairie-wide regional platform. The innovative and translational
nature of the Kleysen Institute will be a cornerstone of this strategy.
At this stage, it is imperative to get a strong sense of the potential
users of this neuroimaging platform. I am therefore asking you to send
me a short paragraph describing whether any of the imaging techniques
mentioned above do or will serve your research interests, and how.
Please add anything in particular you would need in terms of platform
support to facilitate your work in these neuroimaging directions more
efficiently. Would you use any of the techniques if you didn't have to
operate the equipment yourself, but had an individual dedicated to its
operation for researchers? Some have said that providing technical
expertise would make for easier accessibility. Others have mentioned
that employing a strong computational biologist would facilitate image
analysis that would otherwise be next to impossible. Please be
creative. This is your chance!
You are not making any commitments and you need not be detailed. You may
also speculate on how the platform might be useful to you even if you do
not have concrete plans at this point. We are looking for as many
responses as we can get and ultimately, the success of this effort is
predicated on having the largest group of impacted users possible.
Thank you for your attention. Please try to send a quick response to
Nancy Klos at nancy.klos(a)ad.umanitoba.ca by Monday, April 22nd. If you
are interested, see below for a sample response. Also, if you are
interested in being part of this continuing dialogue and want to attend
any future meetings to discuss this platform and the proposed Brain
Canada submission, please let us know in your response. We would
welcome your thoughts and input.
Sincerely,
Chris Anderson on behalf of several interested stakeholders
Sample response: An example of a sufficient response at this stage
would be: One of my research goals is to improve cerebral blood flow
after brain injury. We use 2-photon imaging of brain slices to test
neuron-astrocyte communication in neurovascular coupling. We plan to use
this technique also in live animals in the small animal imaging core.
Using discoveries about neurovascular coupling in vitro and in vivo, we
would like to manipulate blood flow to improve regional brain metabolism
after injury using PET in animals and eventually in humans. PET in
animals and humans is an area of particular interest for me. There is
much potential in using new PET probes to study different aspects of
brain function. We have a unique capability to synthesize new PET
probes and I am interested in having a radiochemist employed to link
this expertise to research in PET imaging of brain function after
injury.
Kelly Jorundson
Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience
R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
Tel: 204.235.3939
Fax: 204.237.4092
Email: kjorund(a)sbrc.ca OR kjorund(a)yahoo.ca
please circulate the revised posting...
Manitoba Neuroscience Network Seminar Series
Friday, April 26th, 2013 | 9:00 a.m. | PX236/238 Psychiatry Bldg.
Dr. Mojgan Rastegar <http://www.mich.ca/profiles.php?id=94>
Assistant Professor - Regenerative Medicine Program
University of Manitoba
Topic: "Epigenetics and Neural Stem Cell Modeling of Neurological Disorders."
Biosketch: Dr. Rastegar is an Assistant Professor at the Regenerative Medicine Program and the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba. She is currently a scientist member of Manitoba Institute of Child Health (MICH) and Molecular Genetics and Human Disease Group (MGHDG).
Dr. Rastegar completed her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the "Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)", Belgium. She continued her research training in US and Canada. In Canada, Dr. Rastegar performed her postdoctoral training at the McGill Cancer Centre in Montreal and at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Dr. Rastegar is a widely recognized researcher in the field of epigenetics in brain development and neurological disorders. Her current research is focused on the role of MeCP2 as an epigenetic factor and modeling neurological diseases in brain-derived neural stem cells.
Presented in co-operation with University of Manitoba Clinical Neuroscience Rounds.
Kelly Jorundson
Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience
R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
Tel: 204.235.3939
Fax: 204.237.4092
Email: kjorund(a)sbrc.ca OR kjorund(a)yahoo.ca
Manitoba Neuroscience Network Seminar Series
Friday, April 26th, 2013 | 9:00 a.m. | PX236/238 Psychiatry Bldg.
Dr. Mogjan Rastegar <http://www.mich.ca/profiles.php?id=94>
Assistant Professor - Regenerative Medicine Program
University of Manitoba
Topic: "Epigenetics and Neural Stem Cell Modeling of Neurological Disorders."
Biosketch: Dr. Rastegar is an Assistant Professor at the Regenerative Medicine Program and the Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics at the University of Manitoba. She is currently a scientist member of Manitoba Institute of Child Health (MICH) and Molecular Genetics and Human Disease Group (MGHDG).
Dr. Rastegar completed her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the "Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)", Belgium. She continued her research training in US and Canada. In Canada, Dr. Rastegar performed her postdoctoral training at the McGill Cancer Centre in Montreal and at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Dr. Rastegar is a widely recognized researcher in the field of epigenetics in brain development and neurological disorders. Her current research is focused on the role of MeCP2 as an epigenetic factor and modeling neurological diseases in brain-derived neural stem cells.
Presented in co-operation with University of Manitoba Clinical Neuroscience Rounds.
Kelly Jorundson
Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience
R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
Tel: 204.235.3939
Fax: 204.237.4092
Email: kjorund(a)sbrc.ca OR kjorund(a)yahoo.ca
You are invited to attend the Will to Win Spinal Cord Symposium and
Banquet, May 13 & 14, 2013
(Hosted by the Spinal Cord Research Centre)
May 13 & 14, 2013
Will To Win Spinal Cord Symposium
"Spinal Motor Control: Neurons, Networks and Movement"
Inn at the Forks, 75 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba
(Two full days of lectures highlighting the latest advances in spinal
cord motor control and restoration of function)
Monday, May 13, 2013
Banquet in honor of Dr. Larry Jordan's contributions to spinal cord
research
Qualico Family Centre, Assiniboine Park (by duck pond)
Cocktails 6:00pm, Dinner 7:00pm
Register Online Now! Deadline APRIL 26, 2013 (seating is limited so
register early)
To register visit http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/SCRC/symposium2013/
<http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/SCRC/symposium2013/> Symposium
announcement is attached. Please post.
Organizers: Brian Schmidt, Dave McCrea (Manitoba), Robert Brownstone
(Dalhousie), John Steeves (UBC)
Questions?
Contact: Sharon McCartney, sharon(a)scrc.umanitoba.ca, (204)789-3770
University of Manitoba, Spinal Cord Research Centre, Department of
Physiology,
409-745 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3E 0J9
Kelly Jorundson
Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience
R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6
Tel: 204.235.3939 | Fax: 204.237.4092
Email: kjorund(a)sbrc.ca OR kjorund(a)yahoo.ca
Website www.sfn-manitoba.ca
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