UCLA's 16^th Annual Review of Psychiatry is a one-day conference featuring leading psychopharmacologists who will discuss new treatments available for sleep disorders, autism, treatment-resistant depression, bipolar disorder and brain stimulation therapy.

A special luncheon plenary session will feature Eustacia Cutler, the mother of Temple Grandin, discussing her experience of raising an autistic child who was diagnosed in 1950 and went on to earn a Ph.D. Temple is now an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior.

Course Chair: Andrew F. Leuchter, M.D.

Desired Outcomes:

1. Diagnose accurately and be aware of what classes of medications can treat body dysmorphic disorder.
2. Use medication combinations for treatment-resistant depression.
3. Improve long-term outcomes and choose which medications are appropriate for the maintenance of treatment.
4. Use combined psychologic and pharmaceutical therapies to improve outcomes, based on new pharmaceutical treatment options.
5. Choose new medications appropriately based on indications, dosage range and possible side effects.
6. Recognize changes in sleep patterns and use behavioral and pharmacologic treatment.
7. Apply evidence-based guidelines on which medications are safe to use during the different stages of pregnancy.
8. Differentiate between bipolar disorder and ADHD in children, and how the pharmacologic approaches would differ.