APA Annual Meeting Highlights

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Release No. 98-26
June 2, 1998

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APA ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTS TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1998

Note: All presentations are embargoed from broadcast, publication, and electronic dispersement until the day of the presentation. Only the presenter with authorization from the chairperson of his/her session can agree to an earlier release. If an embargo is lifted with these provisions, Public Affairs staff will post a notification in the Press Room and on the electronic news and information web sites read by journalists to ensure that no one outlet is granted an exclusive.

8:30 a.m.
APA Media Briefing "Violence in Today's World" featuring presenters on global violence against children and the implications of violence in sports. Presenters include Bessel Van der Kolk, M.D., Boston University and Ronald Kamm, M.D., Sports Psychiatrist, Hahemann MCP University, School of Medicine.

9:45 a.m.
American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Media Briefing "Golden Years or Old-Age Tears? Therapeutic Challenges in Geriatric Psychiatry" Reporters will receive cutting-edge information and perspective on the epidemiology, biology and diagnosis of late-life brain disorders; depression an dementia; and the interplay of depression and other common physical illnesses. Presenters include:

Dilip Jeste, M.D., University of San Diego and Bruce Pollack, M.D., University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Steven Roose, M.D., Columbia University

11:00 a.m.
APA Joint Media Briefing with the Canadian Psychiatric Association

"Practice Profiles in Canada and the United States" Survey Results. Presenters include: Leaders of the American Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Psychiatric Association will present the results of the Practice Profile Survey for both the United States and Canada. Presenters include: Harold A. Pincus, M.D, American Psychiatric Association, Pierre A. M. Beausejour, M.D., Canadian Psychiatric Association, Deborah A. Zarin, M.D., American Psychiatric Association, D. Blake Woodside, M.D., Canadian Psychiatric Association

John S. McIntyre, M.D.,American Psychiatric Association, Elizabeth Lin, Ph.D., Canadian Psychiatric Association

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

New Research Highlights

10:15 a.m.
Depressive Symptoms: A Risk for Mortality in Elderly, New Research 207 presented by Junji Takeshita, M.D., University of Hawaii. Depressive symptoms in elderly men is a predictor of mortality. Appropriate treatment of depression may result in decreased mortality and improved quality of life. 12 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Mathematics Deficits in Bipolar Youth, New Research 242 presented by Diane C. Bird, M.D., Dalhousie University. Findings suggest that bipolar (or manic-depressive) youth have serious difficulties in math.

12 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Childhood Anorexia Nervosa and the Possibility of Antibiotic Treatment, New Research 275, presented by Mae S. Sokol, M.D. Antibiotic treatment may be effective for an infection-triggered subtype of anorexia. Future research is necessary before it can be a part of clinical practice.

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Influence of Social Networks on Sexual Risk Behavior, New Research 417, presented by Cheryl Gore-Felton, Ph.D. Involving friends and partners of HIV positive men in intervention strategies aimed at increasing safer sex practices is likely to be a particularly effective strategy.

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Psychiatric Features of 30 Sex Offenders, New Research 424, presented by Susan L. McElroy, M.D. Sex offenders should be carefully evaluated for the presence of psychiatric disorders.

Session Highlights

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Management of Sexual Predators After the Supreme Court Ruling in Kansas v. Hendricks, Issue Workshop 44, presented by James E. Dillon, M.D. The supreme court ruling provides for the civil commitment of sexual offenders after their sentences are up. These presenters will discuss the legal background and implications, the impact on forensic mental health services, and prospects of treatment of sexual offenders.

9:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Psychopathology and Violent Crime, Review of Psychiatry, Part II presented by Andrew E. Skodol II, M.D. Discussion includes information on violent crime and mental illness, personalities of murderers, biology of aggression, psychopathology, crime and law.

11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Women's Issues in Drug Abuse: Violence, Trauma, and Victimization, Issue Workshop 59, presented by Kathleen T. Brady, M.D. for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Women may become victims of the limitations of the substance abuse treatment system.

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Biological Rhythms: New Frontier for Psychiatry, Symposium 29 Dan A. Oren, M.D., Chairperson; seasonality of mood and related disorders presented by Anthony J. Levitt, M.D., Sunnybrook Hospital; circadian alterations in premenstrual dysphoric disorder presented by Barbara L. Parry, M.D., University of California; serotonin and SAD: implications for treatment presented by Raymond W. Lam, M.D., University of British Columbia; shifting circadian phase using light and melatonin presented by Alfred J. Lewy, M.D., Oregon Health Science University; how does light regulate body and brain? presented by Dan A. Oren, M.D., Yale University.

2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Family Violence and Psychiatry: Canada and the US, Symposium 30 Sandra J. Kaplan, M.D., Chairperson, joint session with the US Department of Justice and the APA Committee on Family Violence and Sexual Abuse. Canadian law: psychiatry and family violence presented by Alison Harvison Young, McGill University; US legal reforms on child and family violence presented by Howard A. Davison, J.D., American Bar Association; child abuse: a review of Canadian studies presented by David A. Wolfe, Ph.D., University of Western Ontario; US treatment outcome studies presented by William M. Friedrich Ph.D., Mayo Clinic; funding for the family violence service in the US: office for crime victims presented by Carolyn A. Hightower, US Department of Justice.

2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Complexity of Bipolar Disorder (Manic-depression), Symposium 33 William B. Lawson, M.D., Chairperson. Toward and animal model of bipolar disorder presented by Aimee R. Mayeda, M.D., Indiana University; recent genetic findings in bipolar disorder presented by John I. Nurnberger, Jr., M.D., Indiana University; ethnic issues in bipolar disorder presented by William B. Lawson, M.D., Veterans Affairs Medical Center Indianapolis; the new uses for valproic acid presented by Samuel O. Okpaku, M.D., Vanderbilt University.

2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Devastating Effects of Childhood Abuse on Mind & Brain, Symposium 44 J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., Chairperson. Clinical presentation fo dissociative disorders related to abuse presented by Dorothy O. Lewis, M.D.; effects of childhood abuse on psychopathology and brain anatomy presented by J. Douglas Bremner, M.D., Yale University; the neuro-archeology of child abuse and neglect: use and disuse of dependent neurodevelopment presented by Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Baylor College; stressor reactivity in abused and nonabused girls presented by Frank W. Putnam, M.D., National Institute of Mental Health; childhood and other traumas in the etiology of depression presented by Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., Yale University