Psychobiology of PTSD: A Decade of Progress

描述(由申请者提供)：纽约科学院(NYAS)正在筹划一次重要的跨学科科学会议，题为“创伤后应激障碍的心理生物学：十年的进步”。这次会议是由西奈山医学院布朗克斯退伍军人医学中心精神病学系Rachel Yehuda博士组织的。 1996年9月，NYAS在纽约市洛克菲勒大学主办了一次题为：创伤后应激障碍的心理生物学，由雷切尔·耶胡达和亚历山大·C·麦克法兰主持的会议。即将举行的研讨会将对过去十年中取得的许多重大研究进展进行全面和最新的审查。值得注意的是，1996年会议上以非常初步的形式提交的大多数生物学发现都经受住了时间和复制的考验，而且几乎无一例外地，在前一次会议上提交的研究人员仍然是创伤后应激障碍领域的活跃(现在更资深)的研究人员。该领域出现的主要问题之一是调查结果质量的大幅提高--十年前只有有限的数据可用时，这些问题似乎相对简单，但现在证明要复杂得多。另一方面，研究创伤后应激障碍的心理生物学的策略使该领域能够跟上这些复杂性的步伐。 研讨会将把基础科学和临床研究结合起来，使研究人员和临床医生对创伤后应激研究的最新进展有一个相互的了解。与会者将了解创伤后应激障碍的分子生物学、病理生理学、神经学、流行病学、临床护理和心理社会管理。本次会议的参与者包括临床医生--博士、医学博士、M.S.W.、R.N.S，他们与创伤幸存者一起工作，希望更新他们关于创伤后应激障碍生物学的知识，以及在该领域工作的基础和临床研究人员。我们还希望会议对受过教育的非专业人士具有吸引力，如消费者、家庭成员、倡导者和对跟踪这一领域知识发展感兴趣的媒体成员。

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.