20th Albert Barrett
Neuroscience Lecture
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Depression Center and Ambulatory Psychiatry
Rachel Upjohn Building
Deep Brain Stimulation: Rethinking Depression
and its Treatment
Helen S. Mayberg, MD
Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology
Dorothy C. Fuqua Chair in Psychiatric Neuroimaging and Therapeutics
Department of Psychiatry
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Mayberg is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the Dorothy C. Fuqua Chair in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at the Emory University School of Medicine where she has an active research program in the neuroimaging of depression. Dr. Mayberg is a Neurologist, trained at Columbia's Neurological Institute in New York, with fellowship training in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She received a BA in Psychobiology from UCLA and an MD from University of Southern California. Dr. Mayberg's studies over the past 20 years have systematically examined depression pathophysiology in both psychiatric and neurological patients, as well as mechanisms mediating antidepressant response to various modes of treatments. This long-term interest in neural network models of mood regulation in health and disease led to the development of a new intervention for treatment resistant patients using deep brain stimulation, a continued focus on ongoing research. Current projects also emphasize development of imaging biomarkers predictive of treatment response and optimal treatment selection for individual depressed patients at all stages of illness.
Contact:
Annunciata Porterfield, 734-936-8269, nunce@umich.edu
