“Is the Translational Medicine Approach Living Up to its Promise in Psychiatry?”

The 2024 SOBP Annual Meeting provides an interactive platform for learning and discovery. The meeting program focuses on alternative and transformative frameworks for understanding psychiatric illnesses and the use of enhanced and newly emerging tools for experimental measurement and manipulation.  Presenters will share research techniques and experimental designs they applied to elucidate the biological pathways and markers associated with psychiatric symptoms and disorders. SOBP looks forward to seeing our attendees and participants at the SOBP 2024 Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.

Important Dates*:

December 13, 2023- February 21, 2024- Early Bird Registration

January 8th - February 8, 2024- Late Breaking Poster Abstract Submission

Registration is Open!

SOBP MEMBERSHIP

Membership has its benefits! Don't forget to renew your 2024 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.
• 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.

The Biological Psychiatry Cover Art Initiative

Addressing the under-representation of Black People on the Journal cover through a series of commissioned artworks.

SOBP and Biological Psychiatry have partnered with artist Dr. Imo Nse Imeh to create a 6 cover art series project – the project covers the interface of art, neuroscience, and mental health from the Black perspective. Biological Psychiatry is working to address the under-representation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) at all levels of Journal activity. With support of the leadership of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Journal has a wonderful opportunity to make a clear statement about its commitment to addressing these issues through a very special collaboration with noted artist Dr. Imo Nse Imeh. 

Click here to read the full newsletter from Dr. John H. Krystal, M.D.

“On behalf of SOBP Council, we are thrilled and grateful for the collaboration between our journal, Biological Psychiatry, and renowned artist Imo Nse Imeh. Through his striking imagery, art is brought together with science in a

thought-provoking manner that is reflective of SOBP’s mission and vision. This collaboration is just one demonstration of SOBP's commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

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. 

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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