21th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference - COGNITIVE AGING: RESEARCH & PRACTICE 2011

span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; ">Our conference will, over three days, bring together internationally renowned neuroscientists and clinicians to provide an update of the fields of affective neuroscience and the neurobiological basis of mental health disorders involving mood and affect. The presentations will cover the basic understanding of the brain regions and neural networks critical for emotion regulation and expression through the developmental course from young to old age, as well as current findings in the assessment and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. Significant advances in the diagnosis and management of neuropsychiatric and mental health disorders will be made with the collaboration of basic and applied scientists to translate knowledge from the neuroscience of emotion to the application of these findings to the clinical setting. This conference will provide a unique opportunity for scientists and clinicians, particularly trainees, to be brought up-to-date in a very short time on this critically important and clinically relevant topic.