About this event

  • Date and time Thu 25 Mar 2021 from 6:00pm to 7:15pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Psychiatry

This webinar will give participants insight into the evolving roles of biology and environmental factors in developmental psychopathology. Experts will present and consider the evolving concepts in brain development and their impact on the understanding of neurodevelopment and neurodevelopmental disorders.

During this webinar participants will:

  • Examine the principles underlying the concept of a “neurodevelopmental disorder."
  • Consider how most psychiatric disorders in children and adults may represent “neurodevelopmental disorders.”
  • Appreciate how taking a neurodevelopmental approach to psychopathology can alter clinical practice.

This is the sixth of a series of Mind Matters webinars presented by the RSM Psychiatry section.

We would like to thank Concern For Mental Health for their donation in support of this webinar. Please note that the agenda, content, and organisation of this webinar has not been influenced in any way.

A CPD certificate with 1 CPD credit  will be issued to those joining each webinar live and will be automatically issued after 7 days  to those who watched the webinar live in its entirety. Those who watch the webinar on-demand will receive a CPD certificate 30 days after the webinar has gone live.  

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Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 2 hours before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

Key speakers

Bennet Leventhal

Professor Bennett Leventhal

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical Director, Center of ASD and NDD’s, University of California San Francisco

 

Speaker's biography

Bennett L. Leventhal, M.D. is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Medical Director of the UCSF Center for Autism Spectrum and Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the University of California San Francisco as well as the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Emeritus, at the University of Chicago and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Yonsei University in South Korea.    He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and an Honorary Member of the World Psychiatric Association.  His honors and awards include the George Tarjan Award, Outstanding Mentor Award, and Catcher in the Rye Award form the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, where he also serves as Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee and Council.  Dr. Leventhal is the recipient of numerous other awards including the Edithe J. Levitt Award for Distinguished Service from the National Board of Medical Examiners.  He is the immediate Past-Chair of WPA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  Dr. Leventhal is active in national and international efforts to promote research and improved care for children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders.  He is an active clinician, educator and investigator.  His research focuses on disruptions in brain development that interfere with social functioning, including the molecular genetics of autism and the prenatal origins of disruptive behavior disorders with current research programs in integrated pediatric mental health services, pediatric psychopharmacology, bullying, epidemiology, etiology  and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with projects with colleagues around the world, including US, Korea, Norway, Georgia, Turkey and Italy.

Professor Andrea Danese

PhD Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr Gordana Milavić

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital and President Elect, Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Agenda

View the programme here

Welcome and introduction

Dr Gordana Milavic, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Maudsley Hospital and President Elect, Psychiatry Section, Royal Society of Medicine

'It’s complicated': Evolving concepts of developmental psychopathology

Professor Bennett Leventhal, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical Director, Center of ASD and NDD’s, University of California San Francisco

Panel discussion

Chair: Dr Gordana Milavic

Professor Bennett Leventhal and Professor Andrea Danese, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

Close of meeting

Location

Online

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Disclaimer: All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM.

Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 2 hours before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

Special rates for difficult times
The RSM wishes to offer healthcare professionals continued learning opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. The RSM’s ​weekly COVID-19 Series ​webinars remain free of charge, while there will be small charges to register for other online education. These fees will enable the RSM to continue its programme of activities and will apply during the course of the pandemic.

All webinars will be available for registered delegates 30 days after on Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place. 

This webinar will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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