The Yale Child Study Center's Lecture Series in Greenwich

Parenting the Anxious Child

November 5, 2009 from 7-8PM
Greenwich Hospital, Nobel Conference Room
Speaker: Michael Crowley, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center
Associate Director, Developmental Electrophysiology Laboratory

How can parents recognize anxieties that affect their child's happiness and well being? What can they do to help their child overcome them? A clinically-trained child research scientist answers this important two-part question by describing various anxiety-caused behavior patterns and advising parents on ways to help their child within the context of both family and school environments.

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Medication for Children with Autism: What We Know and What We Don't Know

Thursday, December 10, 2009 from 7-8 P.M.
Greenwich Hospital, Nobel Conference Room
Speaker: Lawrence Scahill, M.S.N., Ph.D.
Professor of Nursing & Child Psychiatry
Yale University School of Nursing and Child Study Center
Director of the Research Unit on Pediatric Psychopharmacology

Yale is one of three centers of the multisite Research Unit on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network, and Dr. Lawrence Scahill is the Director of RUPP at Yale. The aim of this network is to evaluate the effectiveness of psychopharmacological and behavioral interventions in children and adolescents with autism. Dr. Scahill will discuss pharmaceutical options for autism symptoms that are currently being prescribed by child psychiatrists. This will lead into a discussion of new, experimental medications. He will also discuss the recruitment of subjects for a study, with the Yale Child Study Center, of R-baclofen for the treatment of irritability in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Free with advance registration. Register online at www.greenhosp.org Or call (203) 863-3627 or toll-free (888) 357-2409.

For more information about the Yale Child Study Center's lecture series in Greenwich, please contact Emily Deegan at emily.deegan@yale.edu or call (203) 785-5759.