APS - 71st Annual Scientific Meeting

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Wednesday, March 13 - 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm - Workshops

Wednesday, March 13 - 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Opening Session

Thursday, March 14 - 8:15 am - 9:15 am - Plenary

Thursday, March 14 - 9:15 am - 9:45 am - Data Blitz

Thursday, March 14 - 10:00 am - 11:00 am - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Thursday, March 14 - 11:15 am - 12:30 pm - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Thursday, March 14 - 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Thursday, March 14 - 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Thursday, March 14 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm - Plenary

Friday, March 15 - 8:15 am - 9:15 am - Plenary

Friday, March 15 - 9:15 am - 9:45 am - Data Blitz

Friday, March 15 - 10:00 am - 11:00 am - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Friday, March 15 - 11:15 am - 12:30 pm - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Friday, March 15 - 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Friday, March 15 - 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Friday, March 15 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm - Plenary

Saturday, March 16 - 10:00 am - 10:30 am - Data Blitz

Saturday, March 16 - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm - Awards Sessions

Saturday, March 16 - 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm - Symposia & Paper Sessions

Saturday, March 16 - 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm - Paper Sessions

Saturday, March 16 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm - Presidential Address

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Describe the steps to conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis

Discuss the limitations and main sources of bias

Appraise the evidence presented in a meta-analysis

Describe evidence for the efficacy of depression treatments in various medical illness populations

Discuss current diagnostic criteria for mood disorders and their application to patients with medical illness

List psychosocial risk factors of coronary disease in women

Summarize the allostatic load model of stress-health relationships

Summarize the evolutionary-developmental approach to stress-health relationships

Compare the merits of the two approaches

Discuss new concepts being presented

Describe a theoretical model of how mindfulness-based interventions are believed to impact mechanisms of stress reactivity & recovery

Identify at least 3 psychophysiological mechanisms through which mindfulness training may exert clinical benefits

Assess testosterone responses to psychosocial competitive stress

Examine whether a single nucleotide polymorphism in the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) moderates the impact of exposure to targeted rejection on depressive symptoms

Examine the neural systems that are involved in social evaluation-related increases in inflammation

Explore the relationship between previous-day stress, sleep quality and fatigue in an ambulatory assessment design

Examine whether self-reported fatigue and sleep problems were associated with impaired HF self-care

Discuss the relationship of natural variation in sleep duration to indices of glucose metabolism derived from the 180 minute, intravenous glucose tolerance test

Describe the relative relations of childhood and adult SES to carotid intima media thickness ((IMT), an index of atherosclerosis) and brachial artery flow mediated dilation ((FMD), an estimate of endothelial dysfunction)

Eevaluate whether the form of the income-mortality association is linear and whether this form varies by initial mortality risk

Discuss whether low socio-economic status amplifies the effect of psychological distress on mortality from stroke, coronary heart disease, and all causes

Apply their own expertise in using social media to the goals they have for conveying their scientific findings

Evaluate the utility of various social media methods for their goals in conveying their scientific findings

Explain the opportunites and benefits of communicating ones scientific work to the media

Discuss the neural circuitries linking emotion regulation and systemic inflammation to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk

Define the role that emotional meaning generation plays in the processing of painful and social stimuli by the brain

Discuss the neurochemical and genetic factors impacting sensitivity to both positive and negative social experiences

Examine the associations between cancer incidence and four personality measures: Type 1 cancer-prone, Type 5 rational/anti-emotional, hostility and Type A

Discuss whether emotional support is associated with pro-inflammatory and pro-metastatic leukocyte gene expression in women in treatment for early Bca

Evaluate depression and telomere length in modifying outcomes in bladder cancer patients

Examine the effect of depression on cortisol responses to acute stress in the context of s chronic inflammatory condition

Discuss the association between key personality traits and both cortisol and cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress, in a large cohort of middle aged men and women

Discuss whether individuals reporting stress to adversely affect their health are at increased risk of coronary heart disease

Discuss the interpersonal perspective as an intergrative framework for understanding psychosocial influences on health and related psychobiologic mechanisms

List the five broad dimensions of personality that are widely used in contemporary personality assessment

Explain the research base for studying associations between positive wellbeing and health outcomes

Identify novel nocturnal mechanisms and behaviors that may account for the health effects of close relationships

Identify specific characteristics of the interpersonal environment that are linked with sleep and nocturnal physiology

Utilize innovative methodologies and analytic strategies to evaluate the relationship between social factors and nocturnal physiology and sleep

Discuss the most cutting-edge methods in social and personality psychology that will heighten the impact of the research conducted by the members of APS

Discuss whether the somatic-affective symptoms of depression are more strongly associated with insulin resistance than the cognitive symptoms of depression

Examine the relationships among the somatic and nonsomatic clusters of depressive symptoms and insulin resistance, which is involved in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes

Discuss whether or not depressive symptoms are related to markers of kidney function in a sample of individuals with Type 2 Diabetes and preserved kidney function

Explore cutting edge research on the psychosocial and behavioural correlates of blunted cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress, dentify predictors and/or causes of reduced reactivity.

Describe the potential biological and neural pathways by which low reactivity might have implications for health and disease as well as studies

Identify predictors and/or causes of reduced reactivity

Determine whether any specific depression vulnerabilities are associated with poor adherence to medications after ACS

Investigate the associations between naturalistically-observed conflict and positive maternal behaviors in daily life and childrens diurnal cortisol

Demonstrate that higher marital cohesion is associated with lower risk for atherosclerosis and that this association is explained by better quality of daily spousal interactions

Examine the association of depressive symptoms, anger, hostility, anxiety and discrimination with two-year change in visceral fat

Explain the hypothesis that obesity is associated with an increase in depressive symptoms and that this increase may be explained by obesity-related elevations in the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein

Elucidate the relationship between body mass index and age, gender, heart rate variability, psychosocial stressors at work, psychosocial resources at work and at home, health behavior in predominantly male middle-aged industrial employees

Examine the effect of cortisol release in the morning prior to and during exposure therapy on fear reduction and treatment outcome

Investigate whether infections might be considered a predisposing factor in the development of somatoform disorders

Review a meta-analysis of: (1) prospective cohort studies examining associations among low vitamin D and depression; and (2) randomized controlled trials examining effects of vitamin D supplementation on depressive symptoms

Define the distinction between the mentalists and the materialists in psychology

Describe the overestimation and understimation of the role of psychological stress historically in psychiatry

Discuss the understanding of mind-body interaction in illuminating the next phase of psychiatric understanding

Discuss classic views of randomized clinical trial design and interpretation

List the advantages of both to clinical decision-making and research of exploration following any hypothesis-teseting study

Discuss future directions that might enhance the contribution of clinical research to clinical decision-making

Discuss new concepts being presented

Discuss theory-driven concepts that may be relevant to children and adolescents resiliency in adverse environments

Demonstrate relationships between protective factors and different physiological outcomes (metabolic factors, inflammation, sleep)

Discuss protective factors at different levels of analysis (individual attributes, interpersonal processes, neighborhood context)

Examine in a community sample the effect of resting heart rate and heart rate variability on the odds of developing metabolic syndrome within 12 years

Discuss the potential contribution of the parasympathetic nerves to sAA secretion

Investigate the role of overnight epinephrine in the phenomenon of ambulatory blood pressure "non-dipping" in Black and White men and women

Describe how intake of omega-3 fatty acids and exercise together lower risk for heart disease and diabetes

Discuss whether positive affect predicted time to first hospitalization and mortality due to ischemic heart disease (IHD), and whether exercise mediated this relationship in patients

Discuss emotional and cardiovascular responses to couple conflict in both veterans with and without PTSD, and their romantic partners

Identify individual and social factors contributing to weight changes and clarifying the ways in which these factors interact in a dyadic context

Discuss one possible psychosocial pathway at the family level that may help explain how lower socioeconomic status is associated with poor health outcomes

Conceptualize the need for Hispanic focused health research

Describe the Hispanic Communit Health Study/Study of Latinos

Explain the role that autonomic dysregulation may play in inflammation and the metabolic syndrome as risk factors for cardiovascular disease

Examine inter-relationships between symptom experience and activity levels in chronic fatigue syndrome, using an experience sampling methodology

Develop a new version of the Global Mood Scale that is cross-culturally valid as standard measure of positive and negative affect in cardiovascular research and practice

Explain experience sampling methods to examine the relationship between trait mindfulness, affective stability, and self-regulatory processes that occur in daily life

Evaluate whether CBT when compared to treatment as usual significantly alters cognitive, behavioral and mood factors hypothesized to perpetuate IBS symptoms and disability

Discuss if proximal changes in these factors over the 2 month CBT intervention period mediate the positive treatment effects of CBT 6 months later

Explain the importance of qualitative formative work in item bank development

List the quantitative methods used in PROMIS smoking item bank development

Illustrate data from a large cohort of psychiatrically depressed persons and controls, examining whether MDD is associated with accelerated biological aging

Discuss Telomere Length and its association with health, lifestyle and personlity and to examine differences in health, lifestyle and personlity in genetically identical twins discordant in Telomere Length

Evaluate the association between prenatal exposure to glucocorticoids and infant hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function

Examine how birth weight and length of gestation were affected by a disastrous flood in and near pregnant womens communities

Examine whether the main biological stress systems of the body - inflammation, metabolic dysregulation, HPA-axis and autonomic nervous system - are associated with telomere length

Discuss whether the main biological stress systems of the body - inflammation, metabolic dysregulation, HPA-axis and autonomic nervous system - are associated with telomere length

Discuss innovative, cutting edge research on human functional neuroimaging and autonomic regulation

Describe and illustrate how patterns of neural activation can be used to predict autonomic and bodily responses

Examine the neural correlates of slow breathing

Determine whether major depressive disorder is associated with cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents

Discuss the prognostic value of a positive PHQ-2 depression screen in patients hospitalized with systolic heart failure (HF).

Explain the hypothesis that double depression, defined as a lifetime history of both major depressive disorder and dysthymia, is a stronger predictor of incident cardiovascular disease among adults initially free of cardiovascular disease.

Discuss whether experimentally-induced rumination (compared to distraction) prolongs stress-related inflammation

Examine the relationship between state rumination and future stress responses. Post-stress rumination was found to be related to both initial and future acute cortisol responses to stress

Discuss whether written emotional disclosure can buffer against the effects of brooding on daily cardiovascular outcomes

Discuss whether biobehavioural coherence between psycholgical distress and cortisol is attenuated by advancing gestation

Assess bio-behavioural coherence between momentary mood and heart rate variability in early pregnancy

Describe how behaviors such as smoking, diet, and low use of seat belts or motorcycle helmets are important contributors to the differences in U.S. health outcomes and those of 16 peer economic competitors

Explain how we can narrow the health disparities between the US and other developed economies

Discuss new concepts being presented

Describe he importance of social factors in health outcomes

Identify some mechanisms whereby social factors impact health

Discuss the reciprocal relations between social psychological and physiological processes

Discuss research in the area of sleep and host protective mechanisms, discuss current and future directions in sleep and health research, and present some recent findings in this area

Examine the independent and interactive effects of sleep quality and visceral adiposity on levels of IL-6 and IL-6/IL-10 in response to acute laboratory stress

Explore advances in salivary biomarkers of immune function and stress and to discuss their limitations as well as their ability to advance the field

Discuss new research to develop and test a tool for salivary biomarker assessment and validate it with a PTSD population

Examine biological relevence of social environmental factors for cancer

Discuss evidence for biobehavioral influences on recovery following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Examine associations between childhood trauma and cardiovascular reactivity to and recovery from a standardized laboratory stressor

Discuss whether patients with PTSD were more likely to have evidence of cardiovascular ischemia on exercise treadmill testing than those without PTSD and to evaluate potential mediators of this association

Quantitatively evaluate the association between perceived racial discrimination with hypertensive status and blood pressure

Examine associations among self-reported expectations of racism, experiences of racism and B-mode ultrasound assessed carotid artery atherosclerosis

Investigate brain processing during associative learning and modification of the learned response of visceral pain using classical conditioning paradigm

Examine the relationship of trauma history to pain severity following orthopaedic surgery

Examine the association between Type D personality and the cardiovascular and autonomic response to a passive physiologic cold challenge task

Discuss 2 indices of HPA function(diurnal slope of salivary cortisol and cortisol awakening response)in relation to preclinical vascular disease assessed as carotid artery intima-medial thickness

Examine whether appetite hormones were associated with craving for cigarettes, withdrawal symptoms, and mood states during the initial phase of a cessation attempt, and their relationships with smoking relapse

Examine the impact of sampling delays of less than 15 min on the magnitude and timing of the CAR, and explore if there is a time lag between awakening and the post-awakening rise in cortisol secretion

Describe the impact of psychological stress on sleep

Describe the consequences of stress-related sleep disturbances to health and functioning

Discuss the pathways through which stress affects and is affected by sleep

Discuss the neurocognitive processes that translate perceptions of social connection and social support into emotional feeling states and vulnerability to ill health

Discuss effective use of an ecological momentary assessment (EMA)

Explain how maladaptive acute stress response patterns act as inter-individual difference factor in determining long-term stress effects

Explore psychosocial domains that are important to understanding the development of atherosclerosis and hypertension, and what can be learned from studies of cardiovascular risk and sleep in healthy adolescents.

Objective 1: Describe methodologies that lead to high-impact and high-innovation research

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 2: Explain issues of assessment and treatment and outcomes associated with medical-psychiatric comorbidities

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 3: Discuss cutting-edge central and peripheral neurobiological approaches to psychosomatic medicine and health psychology??

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

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