Our medical students work closely with The BRAIN Center team and present empirical findings each week on various related subjects. They are summarized here.

Topics of previous presentations:

• The Genetics of Bipolar Disorder - Damaris Ortiz and Denise A. Lopez Domowicz
• How Genes and Environment Conspire: Implications for Childhood Depression - June Chae and Euna Chi
• Suicide and Familial Pathway
• Attentional Bias for Toddlers With Autism M3 Psychiatry Clerkship - Alexandra Larson
• Psych Nurse Presentation
• Behavioral, Neurocognitive, and Treatment Overlap Between ADHD and Mood Instability
• Abnormal Reward System Activation in Mania
• Child Bipolar I Disorder: Prospective Continuity With Adult Bipolar I Disorder; Characteristics of Second and Third Episodes; Predictors of Eight Year Outcome - Geller et al
• Bipolar Disorder vs. ADHD in Children - George Nijmeh
• Ethnicity and Eating Disorders - Jenny Kwak
• Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: Advances in the Treatment and Recognition of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder - Carlos Barios, MD
• ADHD vs. Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents - Judy Tai
• Challenges in Managing Major Depression in the Child or Adolescent - Lola Kwan
• Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder - Judy Tai
• Childhood Risk Factors for Depression and Drug Disorders by Early Adulthood - Natalie Hogan
• Eating Disorders and their Correlation to Mood Disorders
• Lithium Usage in Children - Judy Tai
• Overview of Adolescent Suicide - Robert Houston
• Psychosis in Bipolar Disorder - Carl Germann
• Risperidone in the treatment of Aggression - Carl Germann
• Valproic Acid: Its Use in Children for the Treatment of Mania - Natalie Hogan
• Clinical Global Impressions Scale: Applying a Research Tool in Clinical Practice - Anthony Razzak
• Understanding and Encouraging the Overweight Patient - Sonya Meyers
• Suicide Behavior in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
• Theory of Mind Impairments in Children with Bipolar
• Pediatric Insomnia
• Motivational Interviewing
• Risk and Resilience
• Bipolar Youths - Transition to Adulthood
• Drugs of Abuse
• Childhood Schizophrenia
• Suicide Behavior in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder