Meeting Agenda
Translational Approaches to Studying Repetitive Behavior and Resistance to Change in Autism
September 6, 2007 –September 7, 2007
Washington, DC
| Thursday, September 6, 2007 | |
|---|---|
| Time | Event |
| 8:30 - 8:50 | Continental breakfast |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | Welcome and introductions Molly Oliveri, Ph.D., Director, Division of Developmental Translational Research |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Introduction to the workshop Lisa Gilotty, Ph.D., Division of Developmental Translational Research Catherine Lord, Ph.D., University of Michigan |
| 9:10 - 9:30 | Overview of autism and clinical significance of repetitive behavior Catherine Lord, Ph.D., University of Michigan |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Searching for a process that may underlie the various repetitive behavior symptoms in autism and trying to apply this to treatment development research James Bodfish, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Special welcome and appreciation from NIMH Richard Nakamura, Ph.D., Deputy Director, NIMH |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Continuities in normative and pathological repetitive behaviors: Expanding the behavioral phenotype David Evans, Ph.D., Bucknell University |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Phenomenology, neurobiology, and treatment of the repetitive behavior domain in autism spectrum disorders Eric Hollander, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Discussion James Winslow, Ph.D., NIMH Intramural Research Program |
| 12:00 - 1:10 | Lunch on own |
| 1:10 - 1:30 | Overlap of autism and OCD: Phenomenological, pharmacological and genetic perspectives Edwin Cook, M.D., University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 1:40 - 2:00 | Stereotypic behavior in captive animals: An overview and an introduction to the Mason Mouse Lab Georgia Mason, Ph.D., University of Guelph |
| 2:10 - 2:30 | A biological taxonomy of abnormal repetitive behavior - crossing disorders and species Joseph Garner, Ph.D., Purdue University |
| 2:40 - 3:10 | Discussion James Winslow, Ph.D., NIMH Intramural Research Program |
| 3:10 - 3:30 | Break |
| 3:30 - 3:50 | Nonhuman primate models of repetitive behavior Melissa Bauman, Ph.D., University of California at Davis |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Repetitive self-grooming in socially deficient BTBR T+ tf/J Mice Jacqueline Crawley, Ph.D., NIMH Intramural Research Program |
| 4:30 - 4:50 | Neurobiology of aberrant repetitive behavior in a mouse model Mark Lewis, Ph.D., University of Florida |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Discussion James Winslow, Ph.D., NIMH Intramural Research Program |
| 6:30 | Dinner (at neighborhood restaurant) |
| Friday, September 7, 2007 | |
|---|---|
| Time | Event |
| 8:30 - 8:50 | Continental breakfast |
| 8:50 - 9:10 | The striatal signaling molecules CalDAG-GEF1 and CalDAG-GEF2 modulate repetitive and locomotor behaviors induced by psychostimulants Jill Crittenden, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Synaptic and circuitry mechanisms of compulsive behavior in mice Guoping Feng, Ph.D., Duke University |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Discussion James Winslow, Ph.D., NIMH Intramural Research Program |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:50 | General discussion |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Wrap up and adjourn |
