David Rosenberg, M.D., Miriam L. Hamburger Endowed Chair of Child Psychiatry, recently chaired a special symposium on MRI studies of childhood disorders at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Washington. Dr. Rosenberg also presented his work on pharmacological strategies for management of children with treatment-resistant neuropsychiatric disorders as part of an institute at the same meeting.

In addition, Sara Bobak, a fourth-year School of Medicine student working in Dr. Rosenberg's laboratory, presented her work, "Orbital frontal abnormalities in siblings of pediatric patients with OCD" at the meeting. Her work identified brain abnormalities in children at increased genetic risk for developing obsessive-compulsive disorder, for example those who have a family history of illness but are not affected themselves by the disorder.