2008 AMYGDALA CONFERENCE
On April 29 the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress and the Neuroscience Division of USU will hold its annual conference: Amygdala, Stress and PTSD. The speakers are internationally recognized in basic and clinical sciences. Registration is FREE (but required). Details of the Conference and the $500 travel awards are available at:
www.amygdalaconference.org

RECENTLY PUBLISHED: Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry edited by Robert Ursano, Carol Fullerton, Lars Weisaeth and Beverley Raphael and published by Cambridge University Press is now available

WELCOME NEW FACULTY
New Faculty recently joined CSTS and bring added dimensions to several grant projects. Quinn Biggs, Ph.D. a Post-Doc, Jodi McKibben, Ph.D., Research Psychologist, Jennifer Guimond, Ph.D., Child Psychologist, and Pat Martinez, Clinical Nurse Practitioner. We welcome each to our Team.

Scientists at the CSTS recently received funding to address the needs of children of injured families and to study some of the fundamental neuroscience mechanisms that may lead to treatments for PTSD and TBI.

Dr Ursano will be a Distinguished Lecturer at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in Washington D.C (May 3–8)