Program & Abstract Book - EPFL Latsis Symposium 2009

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EPFL Latsis Symposium 2009: Understanding Violence Speakers Richard E. Tremblay 10 Professor, Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment University of Montreal, Canada February 11-13 2009 http://www.psy.umontreal.ca/employes/TREMBLAYRichardE.html Richard Tremblay started his clinical career treating dangerous mentally offenders. For the past 25 years he has conducted a program of longitudinal and experimental studies to understand the physical, cognitive, emotional characteristics of humans from conception onward, in order to gain a better understanding of the development and prevention of physically violent behaviors. Abstract Title: De v e l o p m e n t a l t r a j e c t o r i e s o f h u m a n p h y s i c a l v i o l e n c e a n D t h e i r D e t e r m i n a n t s : fr o m g e n e s t o s o c i a l p o l i c y (o r v i c e v e r s a) Klaus-Peter Lesch Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychsomatics, and Psychotherapy and Director of the ADHD Program of the University of Würzburg, Germany http://www.psychobiologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ Klaus-Peter Lesch’s work has led to new insights into the psychobiology of personality, behavior, and psychiatric disorders. He has been pioneer in discovering genes linked to aggression in different animal species. He is strongly committed to bridge the sizeable gap between basic molecular and clinically applicable research. His work attempts to elucidate neural mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders with the goal to identify final common pathways which could be targeted by novel treatments. Abstract Title: th e n e u r o b i o l o g y o f impulsivity a n D a g g r e s s i o n in aDhD Stephen J. Suomi Chief of the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/staff/bio.cfm?nih_id=0010152932 Prof. Suomi has received international recognition for his extensive research on biobehavioral development in rhesus monkeys and other primate species, with a particular focus on aggressive behaviors. His research at Wisconsin led to his election as Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science “for major contributions to the understanding of social factors that influence the psychological development of nonhuman primates.” Abstract Title: ag g r e s s i o n, s e r o t o n i n , a n D g e n e X e n v i r o n m e n t i n t e r a c t i o n s
EPFL Latsis Symposium 2009: Understanding Violence Speakers, Discussants and Round Table Panelists Caroline Blanchard Professor at the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, and Dept. of Genetics and Molecular Biology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii http://www2.hawaii.edu/~blanchar/home.html Caroline Blanchard’s work has focused on the functions and biology of “negative” emotion patterns such as aggression and defense, across mammalian species and, more recently, on more “positive” emotions, examining behaviors comprising sociality and affiliative emotions. Her approach characterizes by using research based on lower order mammals to analyze both the expression of these emotions in people, and the brain systems involved in potentially related human emotional psychopathologies. She recently (2004-2006) served as President of the International Society for Research on Aggression. Abstract Title: th e ev o l u t i o n a n D aD a p t i v e fu n c t i o n s o f an g e r , ag r e s s i o n a n D vi o l e n c e Richard J Ebstein Director, Department of Research – Herzog Hospital Director, Scheinfeld Center for Human Behavioral Genetics Hebrew University Professor http://ebsteinlab.huji.ac.il/index.html Richard Ebstein has made major contributions to human behavioral genetics, especially in the emerging field of personality genetics. His catalyzing role in personality genetics was initiated with a seminal report in Nature Genetics in 1996 that first showed an association between a common polymorphism and a specific temperament (Ebstein et al 1996). He has published more than 200 scientific articles. Abstract Title: a r o l e f o r a r g i n i n e v a s o p r e s s i n a n D o X y t o c i n in s h a p i n g h u m a n s o c i a l b e h a v i o r Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Professor, Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg and Director, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany http://snp.nimh.nih.gov/ Prof. Meyer-Lindenberg is an expert in the fields of neural mechanisms of psychopathology, imaging genetics, social neuroscience and systems neuro-science in humans. Using mathematical tools, he investigates complex inter-actions between genetic variants and their influence on the human brain. He combines studies of genetic indicators of mental illness with neuroimaging. Abstract Title: ne u r o g e n e t i c a n D n e u r o h o r m o n a l m e c h a n i s m s o f p r o s o c i a l a n D a g g r e s s i v e b e h a v i o r 11
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