The convenor of the Think-Tank seminar series is Dr Anke Karl
The Think-Tank seminar series
Every year the Mood Disorders Centre presents the Think-Tank seminar series, inviting external speakers from around the world to present on a variety of topics relating to mood and mental health. See the Previous external speakers section for a sample list of topics discussed.
The Think-Tank is free of charge and anyone is invited to join us, no registration is required.
Time and venue
12:00 to 1:00pm on the dates specified below.
The Think-Tanks take place in the Sir Henry Wellcome Building for Mood Disorders Research on the University's Streatham Campus.
2012/13
We have an exciting line up of external speakers for the 2012/13 year. Follow the links below for more information on a particular Think-Tank topic:
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2012 | Dr Thalia Eley, Reader in Developmental Behavioural Genetics: MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre | Therapygenetics: Using genetic information to predict psychological treatment response |
| 28 September 2012 | Dr Alexandra M. Hogan, PhD MBBS, Honorary Senior Lecturer: UCL Institute of Child Health and Barts & The London / Queen Mary, University of London Mr Alex Shipolini, FRCS, FRCS, Clinical Senior Lecturer: Barts & The London / Queen Mary, University of London Dr Francesca Cormack, PhD, Research Fellow: MRC Cognition & Brain Unit, University of Cambridge |
Fixing hearts and protecting minds: advances into the investigation of neurocognition in cardiac surgical patients |
| 5 October 2012 | Dr Arno Steinacher, Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences | Computational Modelling of Mood Disorders |
| 9 October 2012 | Professor Jeannette Milgrom: University of Melbourne and Director of the Parent-Infant Research Institute and Psychology at Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia | Can Intervention Improve the Mother-Child Relationship? Advances in screening and early intervention as public health policy in Australia |
| 10 October 2012 | Clare Yeo, Senior Principal Clinical Psychologist & Head, Department of Psychology, Institute of Mental Health and Adj Asst Professor, Department of Psychology, NTU and NUS Chermain Wong Shu Min, Clinical Psychologist, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore |
Mental health services in Singapore |
| 12 October 2012 | Professor Mary Phillips, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh USA | Diagnostic issues in bipolar disorder risk across the lifespan: neuroimaging approaches |
| 19 October 2012 | Professor Paul Dieppe: University of Exeter Medical School | The healing response |
| 26 October 2012 | Dr Ian Jones: MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics Department of Psychological Medicine and Neurology, Cardiff University | Psychoeducation for bipolar disorder - development of a group and on-line intervention |
| 16 November 2012 | The Lived Experience Group: University of Exeter | Further down the Yellow Brick Road |
| 23 November 2012 | Daniel Jamieson: Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Mood Disorders Centre | Imagining the inner voices of those suffering from mood disorders |
| 7 December 2012 | Marcel Meyer: Département des Neurosciences fondamentales Centre médical universitaire (CMU) Faculté de médecine Université de Genève & Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Switzerland | The tight grasp of threat and the (counter) forces of personality |
| 8 March 2013 | Professor Mark Levine: University of Exeter | Violence and Virtual Reality: Studying bystander behaviour in a fully immersive virtual environment |
| 12 April 2013 | Professor Ed Watkins: Mood Disorders Centre, University of Exeter | Thinking transdiagnostically about psychiatric disorders |
| 26 April 2013 | Dr Michael Simon: Centre for Innovation & Leadership in Health Sciences, University of Southampton | Empirically derived search strategies – reducing the hay stack to find the needle |
