Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: March 19, 2025

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Gordon H. Scott Hall of Basic Medical Sciences - Margherio Family Conference Center, 1st Floor

Speaker: 

Seth D. Norrholm, PhD

Director

Neuroscience Center for Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma (NeuroCAST)

Associate Professor, WSU/Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

No Commercial Relationship

TOPIC: "Fear Extinction: From Basic Sciences to Clinical Implications" 

Objectives: 

1.  Delineate the fear-learning mechanisms underlying trauma, stressor, and anxiety-related disorders.

2.  Explain the paradigms used to identify clinically relevant fear learning impairments and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying these impairments.

3.  Describe predominant extinction-based PTSD treatment practices and trends in translational and clinical research into fear learning and PTSD.