The Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease (ARNMD) is hosting its 82nd annual conference on the topic: "Can Aging in the Brain Be Reversed? From Basic Science to the Clinical Arena," on Dec. 6-7 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in the Rockefeller Auditorium. ARNMD is hosting the event in collaboration with The New York Academy of Medicine.
Dr. M. Flint Beal, professor and chairman of neurology, is president of ARNMD's annual conference. ARNMD co-presidents are Dr. George Alexopoulos, professor of psychiatry and director of the Cornell Institute for Geriatric Psychiatry; Dr. Kenneth Davis of Mount Sinai Medical Center; and Dr. Richard Mayeux of Columbia University.
The program for the two-day meeting is as follows:
Friday, December 6, 2002
9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction:
M. Flint Beal, M.D.
Session I
Moderator:
Kenneth L. Davis, M.D.
9:15 a.m.
"Depression in Aging: Prefrontal Dysfunction and Treatment Response"
George Alexopoulos, M.D.
Weill Medical College
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (Westchester Division)
10:00 a.m.
"The Oxidative Damage Theory of Aging"
M. Flint Beal, M.D.
Weill Medical College
Michael Linn, M.D.
Weill Medical College
10:45 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.
"Extension of Life Survival with Genetic Modification in Fruit Flies"
Stephen L. Helfand, M.D.
University of Connecticut
11:45 a.m.
"Drosophila Models of Aging and Mental Retardation"
Kyung-Tai Min, Ph.D.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
12:30 p.m.
Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease (ARNMD) Chair's Update
Jack D. Barchas, M.D.
Weill Medical College
Chair, ARNMD Board of Trustees
12:40 p.m.
Break for Lunch
Session II
Moderator:
George Alexopoulos, M.D.
2:00 p.m.
"Caloric Restriction: Life Span Extension and Retardation of Brain Aging"
Richard Weindruch, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
2:45 p.m.
"Neurogenesis and Drugs: The Effects and Reversibility of Alcohol Induced Changes as a Model System"
Daniel Herrera, M.D., Ph.D.
Weill Medical College
3:30 p.m.
Break
3:45 p.m.
"Changes in Cortical Circuitry with Aging"
John Morrison, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai Medical School
4:30 p.m.
"Genetics of Life Span and Longevity"
Richard Mayeux, M.D., M.Sc.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Saturday, December 7, 2002
9:00 a.m.
Welcome
Session III
Moderator:
Richard Mayeux, M.D., MSD
9:15 p.m.
"Alzheimer's and New Metabolic Approaches to Brain Aging"
Carol Ann Miller, M.D.
University of Southern California
10:00 a.m.
"Schizophrenia: Effects of Aging on Cognition"
Kenneth L. Davis, M.D.
Mount Sinai Medical Center
10:45 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.
"Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Geriatric Depression"
Emily Stern, M.D.
Weill Medical College
David Silbersweig, M.D.
Weill Medical College
11:45 a.m.
"Delaying the Mitochondrial Decay of Aging in the Brain"
Bruce Ames, Ph.D.
University of California (Berkeley)
12:30 p.m.
"Does the Brain Lead the Metabolic Decline in Aging? Lessons from Animal Models and Human Centenarians"
Nir Barzilai, M.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1:15 p.m.
Adjournment
For further information, contact Annlouise Goodermuth at 746-3709.
October 25, 2002
Dr. M. Flint Beal