UCSD Department of Psychiatry 50th Anniversary Symposium - Day 2 - Session 5: Memory & Cognition, and Motivation Research - Forward and Reverse Translational Research to Delineate Neural Underpinnings of Cognitive Dysfunction in Psychiatric Disorders by Jared Young, PhD.
Jared Young, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
https://profiles.ucsd.edu/jared.young
Dr. Young received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2005, moving to UCSD in 2006 under the tutelage of Dr. Mark Geyer bringing psychiatry-relevant cognitive testing in rodents. He has since created and reverse-translated numerous tests of cognition and behavior in rodents, producing a cross-species test-battery that combines fMRI and electroencephalographic measurement of brain function. After obtaining his first R21 to create and validate the highly translatable test of attention, the 5-choice CPT, Dr. Young joined the Psychiatry Department faculty (2009). Since then, he has been fortunate to collaborate with many Departmental researchers, resulting in continued funding including NARSAD, R21s, R01s, and Center awards as Principal Investigator, plus Co-Investigator on others, many of which utilize tests he created and validated. His continued work identifying neural mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction for people living with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, substance use disorders, and HIV, resulted in more than 130 publications plus awards including the Non-Clinical Psychopharmacologist of the Year (British Association Psychopharmacology; 2010), SIRS Rising Star (2019), numerous Travel Awards (ACNP, SOBP, SIRS, ICOSR, IBNS among others), and American College of Neuropsychopharmacology membership (2016). He was recently voted as President of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS), where he will continue his support of clinically-relevant translational research.
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Fifty years ago, a new medical school at the University of California, San Diego recruited a 35-year old neuroscientist-psychiatrist, Arnold J. Mandell, MD, to establish the country’s newest department of psychiatry. Mandell’s vision was to create a community of scholars, educators, and clinicians who understood that to make advances in the causes, mechanisms, treatment, and prevention of mental illness one needed to begin with the neurobiological bases of these disorders and link such insights to diagnosis and treatment.
Mandell therefore put the department on a new path, a biologically rooted but translationally oriented multidisciplinary department. Our second Chair, Lewis L. Judd, MD, built on this concept and through careful recruiting of talented scientists, educators, and clinicians, developed what came to be regarded as one of the finest departments of psychiatry in the world.
The science of this department expanded from investigations of the traditional mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and dementias to multidisciplinary investigations of the role of brain conditions in important medical disorders such as HIV/AIDS.
From a scientific standpoint, a relatively young department became one of the three best funded research departments in the country, while developing 25 discipline specific and multidisciplinary training programs. The clinical enterprise has also flourished and now includes world class programs in the treatment of eating disorders, early psychosis, and many others.
This 50th year celebration of the science, education, and clinical work of the department is a moment of both happy self-reflection, and consideration of paths forward.
I hope you enjoy the program, and join me in the celebration.
Igor Grant, MD
Mary Gilman Marston Distinguished Professor
3rd Chair, UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry
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