3rd Annual New England OCD Research Symposium Schedule
Friday, March 27, 2015
7:50am – Arrival & Light Breakfast
8:45am – Welcome by Christopher Pittenger and Marissa Keegan
9:00am – Genetics and Neurochemistry
- 9:00 – 5HT1b binding and prepulse inhibition in patients with OCD by Christopher Pittenger
- 9:15 – Population-based cohort study excludes significant role for parental age in OCD and tic disorders by Dorothy Grice
- 9:30 – Predicting response to neurofeedback intervention by Michelle Hampson
- 9:45 – General Discussion
10:20am – Coffee
10:40am – Phenomenology
- 10:40 – The cognitive neuropsychology of OCD by Amitai Abramovitch
- 10:55 – Compulsivity as a trans-diagnostic trait: realizing dimensional psychiatry by Claire Gillan
- 11:10 – Impaired arbitration between action strategies in OCD: a hypothesis by Patricia Gruner
- 11:25 – Considering selective mutism and OCD: is there sufficient evidence to consider SM a variant of OCD by Shawna Newman
- 11:40 – General discussion
12:00pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Hoarding, BDD, and OCPD
- 1:15 – Pharmacotherapy relapse prevention in body dysmorphic disorder: background, rationale, and open trial outcomes by Sabine Wilhelm
- 1:30 – Pharmacotherapy relapse prevention in body dysmorphic disorder: phase II results by Katherine Phillips
- 1:45 – Cognitive behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: a case series by Anthony Pinto
- 2:00 – Predictors of CBT response in hoarding disorder by Lauren Hallion
- 2:15 – General discussion.
2:35pm – Still more coffee
- Poster presenters hang their posters.
- 2:40 – High-resolution structural and functional connectomics in OCD using new analytic tools from the Human Connectome Project by Alan Anticevic
2:55pm – Treatment
- 2:55 – Developing a collaborative program of clinical research by Jesse Crosby
- 3:10 – Augmenting serotonin reuptake inhibitors in obsessive-compulsive disorder: what moderates improvement? by Michael Wheaton
- 3:25 – The motivation-compliance connection: conceptualizing motivation within the intensive treatment of OCD by Nathaniel Van Kirk
- 3:40 – General discussion
4:00pm – Research Poster Reception
- Wine & Cheese will be served.
5:30pm – End of Program