Psychobiology of PTSD: A Decade of Progress

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约科学院（NYAS）正在计划一个主要的跨学科科学会议，题为“创伤后应激障碍的心理生物学：十年的进展。“会议由雷切尔·耶胡达博士组织，精神病学系，布朗克斯VA医疗中心，西奈山医学院。 1996年9月，NYAS主办了一次题为“创伤后应激障碍的心理生物学”的会议，由Rachel Yehuda和亚历山大C.麦克法兰在纽约市的洛克菲勒大学举行。即将举行的研讨会将提供一个全面的和最新的检查，许多重大的研究进展，在过去十年中发生的。值得注意的是，在1996年会议上以极其初步的形式提出的大多数生物学发现经受住了时间和复制的考验，几乎无一例外，在前一次会议上提出的研究人员仍然是PTSD领域的活跃（现在更高级）研究人员。该领域出现的主要问题之一是调查结果的质量有了显著提高-10年前只有有限的数据时，这些问题似乎相对简单，但现在却变得复杂得多。另一方面，研究PTSD心理生物学的策略使该领域能够跟上这些复杂性的步伐。 研讨会将整合基础科学和临床研究，使实验室研究人员和临床医生可以发展在创伤后应激研究的最新进展的相互理解。与会者将获得分子生物学，病理生理学，神经学，流行病学，临床护理和创伤后应激障碍的心理社会管理的理解。预计参加这次会议的包括临床医生-博士，医学博士，M.S.W.，R.N.与创伤幸存者一起工作并希望更新他们关于创伤后应激障碍生物学知识的人，以及在该领域工作的基础和临床研究人员。我们还希望会议能吸引受过教育的非专业人士，如消费者、家庭成员、倡导者和有兴趣跟踪这一领域知识发展的新闻界人士。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) is planning a major interdisciplinary scientific conference entitled, "Psychobiology of PTSD: A Decade of Progress." The conference is being organized by Rachel Yehuda, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Bronx VA Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In September 1996, NYAS hosted a conference entitled: The Psychobiology of PTSD, chaired by Rachel Yehuda and Alexander C. McFarlane held at Rockefeller University in New York City. The upcoming symposium will provide a comprehensive and up date examination of the many significant research advances that have occurred over the past decade. Remarkably most of the biologic findings presented at 1996 conference in extremely preliminary form have withstood the test of time and replication, and almost without exception, the researchers who presented at the previous conference are still active (now more senior) researchers in the field of PTSD. One of the main issues occurring in the field is the dramatic improvement of the quality of findings - issues that appeared to be relatively simple ten years ago when only limited data were available have now turned out to be far more complex. On the other hand, strategies for examining the psychobiology of PTSD have allowed the field to keep pace with these complexities. The symposium will integrate basic science and clinical research so that both bench researchers and clinicians can develop a mutual understanding of recent progress in post traumatic stress research. Conference attendees will achieve an understanding of molecular biology, pathophysiology, neurology, epidemiology, clinical care and psychosocial management of PTSD. Expected participants to this conference include clinicians - Ph.D., M.D., M.S.W., R.N.'s who work with trauma survivors and wish to update their knowledge about the biology of PTSD, as well as basic and clinical researchers working in the field. We also expect the conference to be attractive to educated lay individuals such as consumers, family members, advocates, and members of the press who are interested in tracking the development of knowledge in this area.