SOBP Spring 2024 Newsletter

2024 SOBP ANNUAL MEETING

“Is the Translational Medicine Approach Living Up to its Promise in Psychiatry?”

The 2024 SOBP Annual Meeting provides an interactive platform for learning and discovery. The meeting program focuses on alternative and transformative frameworks for understanding psychiatric illnesses and the use of enhanced and newly emerging tools for experimental measurement and manipulation. Presenters will share research techniques and experimental designs they applied to elucidate the biological pathways and markers associated with psychiatric symptoms and disorders. SOBP looks forward to seeing our attendees and participants at the SOBP 2024 Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.

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Don't Forget to Renew Your 2024 SOBP Membership

SOBP MEMBERSHIP

Membership has its benefits! Don't forget to renew your 2024 SOBP Membership by logging into the SOBP website, updating your profile and pay your membership dues.

Benefits of membership include:

All members can register for the Society of Biological Psychiatry’s Annual Meeting at the reduced registration fee. This represents a significant savings from the full-cost, non-member registration fee.
Reduced abstract submission fee of $0 vs $40 for non-members.
All members will receive a subscription, both print and online, to Biological Psychiatry, the official publication of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and online subscription to the new journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. This is a $798 value!
Leadership opportunities on committees.
Sponsorship of abstracts or member applications.
Access to members-only on-line tools.
Recognition and affiliation with a premier organization.
Networking and professional development.

Newly Elected Council Members

Terms begin June 1, 2024.

Carrie Bearden, Ph.D.

President-Elect

Anissa Abi-Dargham, M.D.

Councilor

Tiffany Ho, Ph.D.

Junior Councilor

Council Members Rotating Off

Terms end May 31, 2024.

Hilary Marusak, Ph.D.

Junior Councilor

Mary Phillips, M.D.

Councilor

Dost Ongur, M.D., Ph.D.

Councilor

Thank you for your dedication and service to the Society!

Author Spotlight

Dr. Anna Konova

"Recent Opioid Use Impedes Range Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning in Human Addiction"

We had the chance to learn from Dr. Anna Konova about her work recently published in Biological Psychiatry. Dr. Konova is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University and Director of the Addiction & Decision Neuroscience Lab. Her laboratory recently found that recent opioid use was linked with lower sensitivity to reward context in a decision task, using competing computational models.

Click here to read the full interview.

Brought to you by the CAWL Committee.

Interviewed by Jennifer S. Stevens, PhD.

SOBP CAREER CENTER

SOBP's Career Center connects our members with employment opportunities and employers with the best professionals within our membership. Employment opportunities range from post-doc positions, faculty positions, neuroscience jobs in industry and alternative careers.

Visit SOBP's Career Center today to explore employment opportunities. Post an anonymous resume for employers or recruiters to view.

Links to other resources are available for your convenience.

GOS Special Issue Call for Papers: Mindfulness: Measurement, Methods, Mechanisms & Mental Health

The field of mindfulness research has matured significantly over the past few years, with increasing emphasis on establishing the biological mechanisms by which mindfulness meditation works, as well as developing novel methods to both enhance and more accurately measure the efficacy of mindfulness training. This special issue of Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science will focus on the development and/or use of these methods in the context of promoting mental health, and on advancing our understanding of why and how mindfulness training can be used in clinical contexts. More

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Biological Psychiatry

Biological Psychiatry is one of the most selective and highly cited journals in the field of psychiatric neuroscience. It is ranked 7th out of 155 Psychiatry titles and 12th out of 271 Neurosciences titles in the 2019 ISI Journal Citations Reports® published by Clarivate Analytics. The 2019 Impact Factor score for Biological Psychiatry is 12.095. Biological Psychiatry is also the first-ranked psychiatry journal according to Google Scholar (July 2020). Learn More

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (BP:CNNI)

Launched in January 2016, led by its founding editor, Cameron S. Carter. This new journal publishes fundamental advances from both basic and clinical studies that provide novel insights into the relationships between brain and behavior using the tools and constructs of cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging. BP:CNNI welcomes new submissions.

Biological Psychiatry:

Global Open Science (BP:GOS)

Launched in 2020, led by its founding editor, Deanna M. Barch. BP:GOS will be a fully open-access journal. It is intended to be aligned with global initiatives to promote the dissemination of science through open access, such as Plan S (https://www.coalition-s.org/) and the goals of open science more broadly. Second, this new journal will complement both BP and BP:CNNI. BP:GOS welcomes new submissions.