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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: The ‘light’ and ‘dark’ sides of addiction: animal models\, psychological processes\, and the development of novel pharmacotherapies.
DESCRIPTION:Dr Nicholas Everett\, The Brain and Mind Centre\, School of Psychology\, University of Sydney.Abstract:\nWhile psychosocial interventions for substance use disorders can be effective for some\, they are inaccessible for the many\, and relapse occurs in 60-80% of people despite successful abstinence. Unfortunately\, addiction medicine is in its infancy\, with very few therapies approved for use\, and even fewer which are effective long-term. This is at least partially due to a lack of understanding of the psychological and neural processes which underpin the distinct symptoms which drive\, maintain\, and trigger relapse to substance use disorders. Additionally\, within the psychological\, neuroscience\, and drug-discovery fields\, there has been an overwhelming focus on the ‘light’ side of addiction\, characterised by drug-induced euphoric highs\, positive reinforcement\, and incentive sensitisation. In contrast\, only recently has significant attention been given to the ‘dark’ side of addiction\, characterised by drug- and withdrawal-induced dysphoria and negative reinforcement. Together\, these (and other) issues have precluded the development of pharmacotherapies which specifically target the neurobiology underpinning these problematic affective and motivational states.\nHere\, I will present my work using rodent models of opioid and methamphetamine use disorders to develop novel pharmacotherapies for treating the dark and light behavioural symptoms and neural markers of addiction. I will discuss the therapeutic effects and neural mechanisms of administered oxytocin for methamphetamine addiction\, including potential solutions to its translational hurdles\, and will present research using a novel clinical-stage molecule\, KNX100\, for treating both opioid and methamphetamine use disorder.\nBio:\nNick is a post-doctoral researcher at The Brain and Mind Centre in the School of Psychology\, with A/Prof Michael Bowen. His research using preclinical rodent models of behaviour and neurobiology\, in the context of normal function and psychiatric disease states spans a range of themes including pavlovian and operant conditioning\, social motivation\, substance use disorders (particularly methamphetamine and opioids)\, nucleus accumbens function\, and oxytocin neurobiology. Overarching these themes is a focus on the discovery and development of novel brain-targeting molecules which interact with disease-relevant neural systems\, to treat intractable psychiatric diseases. Recently\, through A/Prof Bowen’s start-up\, Kinoxis Therapeutics\, Nick’s industry-sponsored development of KNX100 for treating the negative affective symptoms of opioid withdrawal has helped to progress this potentially first-in-class therapy to Phase-I clinical trials. Nick’s translational work continues to progress KNX100 and other novel molecules towards clinical trials for methamphetamine use disorder\, and to discover translatable biomarkers of addiction symptomology and of therapeutic intervention\, while his basic psychology and neuroscience research continues to understand how neural systems (e.g. oxytocin) contribute to normal and aberrant motivational states. Across these projects\, Nick uses a combination of contemporary neural recording and manipulation techniques including in vivo calcium imaging\, chemogenetics\, optogenetics\, neuropharmacology\, immunohistochemistry\, in combination with pavlovian conditioning tasks (e.g. conditioned place aversion\, sign-tracking)\, and operant tasks of intravenous drug self-administration and social motivation (behavioural economics)\, and mutually exclusive choice between drugs and social rewards (modelling the Community Reinforcement Approach). Nick also co-supervises PhD candidates in the School\, spanning topics including: novel cannabinoid-based therapies for opioid use disorder; the neurobiology of social fear; the interactions between oxytocin\, sleep deprivation\, and social motivation; and improving the translation of oxytocin for treating methamphetamine use disorder. Nick serves on the executive council for the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and on the USYD Animal Ethics Committee. Nick is eager to collaborate with other School of Psychology researchers.\nThis is a Hybrid event so you can join in person or via the Webinar link below:\nHEYDON LAURENCE LECTURE THEATRE 217 (DT ANDERSON) (You are encouraged to please wear a mask if attending in person)\nZoom Webinar Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/s/88411869946
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-the-light-and-dark-sides-of-addiction-animal-models-psychological-processes-and-the-development-of-novel-pharmacotherapies/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: There and Back Again: Bleed from Extraordinary Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Dr Tom van Laer\, Associate Professor of Narratology\, University of SydneyAbstract:\nFrom re-enactments to pilgrimages\, extraordinary experiences engage consumers with frames and roles that govern their actions for the duration of the experience. Exploring such extraordinary frames and roles\, however\, can make the act of returning to everyday life more difficult\, a process prior research leaves implicit. The present ethnography of live action role-playing explains how consumers return from extraordinary experiences and how this process differs depending on consumers’ subjectivity. The emic term “bleed” captures the trace that extraordinary frames and roles leave in everyday life. The subjective tension between the extraordinary and the ordinary intensifies bleed. Consumers returning from the same experience can thus suffer different bleed intensities\, charting four trajectories of return that differ in their potential for transformation: absent\, compensatory\, cathartic\, and delayed. These findings lead to a transformative recursive process model of bleed that offers new insights into whether\, how\, and why consumers return transformed from extraordinary experiences with broader implications for experiential consumption and marketing.\nBio:\nMembership Executive Manager of the Association for Consumer Research. He is an expert on the science of how storytelling works. His research is published in leading and highly-regarded academic journals\, including the Journal of Consumer Research\, International Journal of Research in Marketing\, Journal of Interactive Marketing\, Journal of Management Information Systems\, Journal of Service Research\, European Journal of Marketing\, Journal of Business Ethics\, Journal of Business Research\, Journal of Marketing Management\, et cetera. In addition to opinion pieces he has written for the Guardian\, he has appeared on the ABC\, Nine Network\, Network 10\, SBS\, in the Age\, the Australian\, Australian Financial Review\, Sydney Morning Herald\, Newsweek\, Daily Mail\, Daily Telegraph\, the Independent\, Financial Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and on national TV and radio stations in Austria\, Germany\, the Netherlands\, and the UK\, among other news outlets.\nPreviously\, Tom has been Reader of Marketing at City University of London\, UK\, a consultant of the European Commission\, and a visiting scholar at several Australian Group of Eight universities. He holds a doctorate (PhD) in marketing from Maastricht University\, the Netherlands. Though he has won awards for his academic research\, teaching\, and media exposure\, Tom counts winning his high school’s story recital competition in 1995 as his most impressive accomplishment.\nThis is a Hybrid event so you can join in person or via the Webinar link below:\nHEYDON LAURENCE LECTURE THEATRE 217 (DT ANDERSON) (You are encouraged to please wear a mask if attending in person)\nWebinar Link:  https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/s/83771973924
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-there-and-back-again-bleed-from-extraordinary-experiences/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Long-COVID what is it and what role can psychology play?
DESCRIPTION:Professor Andrew Baillie\, The Sydney School of Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine and Health\, University of SydneyBio:\nAndrew is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Allied Health with Sydney Local Health District and The Sydney School of Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. He works within SLHD to build Allied Health Research Capacity. He also convenes the Academic Implementation Science Network for Sydney Health Partners\, and the Long-COVID Australia Collaboration. Andrew collaborates with the Matilda Centre for Research in Substance use and Mental Health\, the Edith Collins Centre (Translational Research in Alcohol\, Drugs and Toxicology; and the Sydney Institute of Women Children and their Families. He also works with Drug Health Services at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Psychology Team at RPAVirtual.  Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2017 he was director of the Clinical Psychology program at Macquarie University.\nAbstract:\nLong-COVID is a recently described syndrome that follows a COVID-19 infection in around 5-10% of people.  Because COVID-19 is so widespread Long-COVID may become the largest single source of disability.  This presentation reviews the experience of Long-COVID and research on the epidemiology\, assessment\, and treatment of Long-COVID and provides an update on the gaps and opportunities for psychological research.\nThis is a Hybrid event so you can join in person or via the Webinar link below:\nHEYDON LAURENCE LECTURE THEATRE 217 (DT ANDERSON) (You are encouraged to please wear a mask if attending in person)\nWebinar Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/s/84941881499
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-long-covid-what-is-it-and-what-role-can-psychology-play/
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SUMMARY:Psychology Colloquium: Where are the self-correcting mechanisms in science?
DESCRIPTION:Professor Simine Vazire\, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences\, University of MelbourneAbstract:\nWe often hear the self-correcting mechanisms in science invoked as a reason to trust science\, but it is not always clear what these mechanisms are.  Some quality control mechanisms\, such as peer review for journals\, or vetting for textbooks or for public dissemination\, have recently been found not to provide much of a safeguard against invalid claims.  Instead\, I argue that we should look for visible signs of a scientific community’s commitment to self-correction.  These signs include transparency in the research and peer review process\, investment in error detection and quality control\, and an emphasis on calibration rather than popularization.  We should trust scientific claims more to the extent that they were produced by communities that have these hallmarks of credibility.  Fields that are more transparent\, rigorous\, and calibrated should earn more trust.  Metascience can provide scientists and the public with valuable information in assessing the credibility of scientific fields.\nBio: \nSimine Vazire is a professor in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne.  She has two lines of research. One examines people’s self-knowledge of their personality and behaviour and another examines the individual and institutional practices and norms in science\, and the degree to which these norms encourage or impede self-correction and credibility.  She is a board member of PLOS and the Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the Social Sciences\, was a member of the US National Academy of Science study committee on replicability and reproducibility\, and co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS). She is Editor in Chief of Collabra: Psychology and has served as editor at several other journals.\nThis is a Hybrid event so you can join in person or via the Webinar link below:\nHEYDON LAURENCE LECTURE THEATRE 217 (DT ANDERSON) (You are encouraged to please wear a mask if attending in person)\nWebinar Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/s/85943288395
URL:https://psychology-events.sydney.edu.au/event/psychology-colloquium-where-are-the-self-correcting-mechanisms-in-science/
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