The Leo Kanner Lecture: Ellen Leibenluft

Description

Ellen Leibenluft, a senior investigator and chief of the Section on Mood Dysregulation and Neuroscience in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health, will give a talk titled "Pediatric Irritability: A Review and Update" for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

This is a hybrid event; to attend virtually, use the Zoom link (Meeting ID: 990 0206 2578).

Leibenluft conducted multiple studies differentiating chronic, severe irritability in youth from pediatric bipolar disorder. This body of work had significant public health consequences and identified chronic irritability in youth as an important clinical problem. Leibenluft has done pioneering work on irritability, including using cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging techniques to study mechanisms mediating aberrant responses to frustration in youth with severe irritability. She has also published widely on the phenomenology and course of irritability, including its presentation in the context of disorders such as anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity.

About the Leo Kanner Lecture

The Leo Kanner Lectureship was established to honor the compassion, clinical care, and scholarship of the founding father of child and adolescent psychiatry in the U.S. His legacy of integrating clinical observations and scientific rigor in the interest of the most vulnerable, our children, serves as a model for child and adolescent psychiatrists.