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UCSD Department of Psychiatry 50th Anniversary Symposium - Day 2 - Session 5: Memory & Cognition, and Motivation Research - What the Body can tell us about the Brain: Using Physiology to Understand Neuropsychiatric Diagnoses by Arpi Minassian, PhD. Arpi Minassian, PhD Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Diego https://profiles.ucsd.edu/arpi.minassian Dr. Minassian received her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology-San Diego. She completed her predoctoral internship in the UCSD Psychology Internship Training Program and her post-doctoral training in the NIMH Fellowship in Biological Psychiatry and Neuroscience. She joined the Psychiatry faculty in 2004 and is currently a Health Sciences Clinical Professor. She is a faculty psychologist at the Medical Center and Chief of Embedded Services in the clinical division. Dr. Minassian’s research program is focused upon understanding the relationship between biology and behavior. Her research has implemented physiological and cognitive paradigms to understand brain dysfunction in psychiatric populations such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD, and substance use as well as neuromedical conditions such as HIV. The methodologies she has helped develop and implement can be translated to animals, an application which accelerates our understanding of biological mechanisms. She serves a project director or co-investigator on NIH-funded studies on bipolar disorder and HIV as well as cannabis and nicotine use. Dr. Minassian’s clinical area of expertise is consultation-liaison and she works with medically ill patients in a number of clinical settings. She is Vice Chair of the department’s Diversity Committee and serves on university- and hospital-wide diversity focus groups. UCSD Department of Psychiatry Homepage https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/psychi... Fifty years ago, a new medical school at the University of California, San Diego recruited a 35-year old neuroscientist-psychiatrist, Arnold J. Mandell, MD, to establish the country’s newest department of psychiatry. Mandell’s vision was to create a community of scholars, educators, and clinicians who understood that to make advances in the causes, mechanisms, treatment, and prevention of mental illness one needed to begin with the neurobiological bases of these disorders and link such insights to diagnosis and treatment. Mandell therefore put the department on a new path, a biologically rooted but translationally oriented multidisciplinary department. Our second Chair, Lewis L. Judd, MD, built on this concept and through careful recruiting of talented scientists, educators, and clinicians, developed what came to be regarded as one of the finest departments of psychiatry in the world. The science of this department expanded from investigations of the traditional mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and dementias to multidisciplinary investigations of the role of brain conditions in important medical disorders such as HIV/AIDS. From a scientific standpoint, a relatively young department became one of the three best funded research departments in the country, while developing 25 discipline specific and multidisciplinary training programs. The clinical enterprise has also flourished and now includes world class programs in the treatment of eating disorders, early psychosis, and many others. This 50th year celebration of the science, education, and clinical work of the department is a moment of both happy self-reflection, and consideration of paths forward. I hope you enjoy the program, and join me in the celebration. Igor Grant, MD Mary Gilman Marston Distinguished Professor 3rd Chair, UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry Make a Gift to the UCSD Department of Psychiatry https://medschool.ucsd.edu/som/psychi...