SOBP Fall 2023 Newsletter

SOBP looks forward to seeing our attendees and participants at the SOBP 2024 Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. Submissions are still open. Click here to see more information and guidelines.

Diversity in Participants

Symposium participants should include scientists and/or clinicians who are diverse in gender, individuals from underrepresented backgrounds or underrepresented groups in science, technology, etc. In addition, symposia should attempt to include individuals who are at an early career stage.

Diversity in Scientific Topics

The SOBP strongly supports diversity in the scientific topics of symposia and seeks symposia that address important understudied factors (e.g., sex- and gender-based analyses, vulnerabilities, and treatment gaps for minority populations, etc.) in psychiatric neuroscience.

Important Dates*:

November 30, 2023-Oral/Poster Presentation Submission Deadline

October 25, 2023-Honorific Award Submission Deadline

SOBP MEMBERSHIP

Membership has its benefits! Don't forget to renew your 2023 SOBP Membership by logging into the SOBP website, updating your profile and pay your membership dues.

Benefits of membership include:

All members can register for the Society of Biological Psychiatry’s Annual Meeting at the reduced registration fee. This represents a significant savings from the full-cost, non-member registration fee of $745.
Reduced abstract submission fee of $0 vs $40 for non-members.
All members will receive a subscription, both print and online, to Biological Psychiatry, the official publication of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and online subscription to the new journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. This is a $798 value!
Leadership opportunities on committees.
Sponsorship of abstracts or member applications.
Access to members-only on-line tools.
Recognition and affiliation with a premier organization.
Networking and professional development.

SOBP Committee for the Advancement of Women in Leadership

The Committee for the Advancement of Women in Leadership (CAWL) was formed in 2015 at the 70th annual meeting of the Society in response to the need to provide a platform for change that recognizes the challenges faced by women, raises awareness of implicit gender biases, and offers women opportunities and tools for advancement and leadership.

Women in Neuroscience and Psychiatry

In 2020, CAWL interviewed Dr. Carrie Bearden, Dr. Helen Mayberg and Dr. Mary Phillips about their careers and how they advanced to their leadership roles.

An Interview with a 2023 Travel Award Winner

Dr. Anders Lillevik Thorsen, Early Career Investigator-International Awardee, was interviewed by Dr. Lisanne Michelle Jenkins on his experience as a 2023 Travel Award winner. Dr. Thorsen currently lives in Bergen, Norway and works at the Bergen Center for Brain Plasticity, Haukeland University Hospital.

Dr. Thorsen said that SOBP is a highlight of his year because he can meet with old friends, new collaborators and be inspired by the exciting advances in the field of psychiatry.

If you would like to read the whole interview, please click the button below

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See what last years Travel Award winners have to say about the 2023 conference

“As a psychiatry resident, I have been so flooded with clinical training, and haven’t been as engaged in thinking about science. This meeting made me excited about science again.”

“I was happy to spend time with my Mentor and I would gladly repeat the experience in the future. As I was new to the SOBP, being paired with a Mentor that I already knew helped me to feel to have a reference.”

“This has been by far the best conference I have attended, and I look forward to future meetings!”

GOS Special Issue Call for Papers: Mindfulness: Measurement, Methods, Mechanisms & Mental Health

The field of mindfulness research has matured significantly over the past few years, with increasing emphasis on establishing the biological mechanisms by which mindfulness meditation works, as well as developing novel methods to both enhance and more accurately measure the efficacy of mindfulness training. This special issue of Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science will focus on the development and/or use of these methods in the context of promoting mental health, and on advancing our understanding of why and how mindfulness training can be used in clinical contexts. More

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SOBP CAREER CENTER

SOBP's Career Center connects our members with employment opportunities and employers with the best professionals within our membership. Employment opportunities range from post-doc positions, faculty positions, neuroscience jobs in industry and alternative careers.

Visit SOBP's Career Center today to explore employment opportunities. Post an anonymous resume for employers or recruiters to view.

Links to other resources are available for your convenience.

Biological Psychiatry

Biological Psychiatry is one of the most selective and highly cited journals in the field of psychiatric neuroscience. It is ranked 7th out of 155 Psychiatry titles and 12th out of 271 Neurosciences titles in the 2019 ISI Journal Citations Reports® published by Clarivate Analytics. The 2019 Impact Factor score for Biological Psychiatry is 12.095. Biological Psychiatry is also the first-ranked psychiatry journal according to Google Scholar (July 2020). Learn More

Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (BP:CNNI)

Launched in January 2016, led by its founding editor, Cameron S. Carter. This new journal publishes fundamental advances from both basic and clinical studies that provide novel insights into the relationships between brain and behavior using the tools and constructs of cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging. BP:CNNI welcomes new submissions.

Biological Psychiatry:

Global Open Science (BP:GOS)

Launched in 2020, led by its founding editor, Deanna M. Barch. BP:GOS will be a fully open-access journal. It is intended to be aligned with global initiatives to promote the dissemination of science through open access, such as Plan S (https://www.coalition-s.org/) and the goals of open science more broadly. Second, this new journal will complement both BP and BP:CNNI. BP:GOS welcomes new submissions.