Final Fall Hot Topics in Psychology Lecture to Discuss Effects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for Psychological Studies (CPS) at NSU will present the final lecture of the semester in the Hot Topics in Psychology series on Nov. 12 from 12 to 1 p.m. in the Carl DeSantis building, room 3028. The talk, titled “Beyond 9/11 and War: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Widely Affects the Health of Civilians,” will be presented by Mindy Ma, Ph.D., assistant professor and coordinator of psychology in the college’s Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Jeff Kibler, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Psychological Studies; and Kavita Joshi, MS, doctoral student in the Center for Psychological Studies.

The presentation will highlight collaborative efforts between the college and CPS to conduct research on cardiovascular health consequences of posttraumatic stress. This research has provided training opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students. Kibler will provide an overview of these research projects and discuss an ongoing project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Joshi will present a project that assesses rates of hypertension in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and Ma will describe the collaborative training of students from both programs.

Hot Topics is a brown-bag series—those attending the lectures are encouraged to bring their lunches to the event, providing their own “food for thought.” The series enables students to gain a first-hand perspective of research in specific areas of psychology and also serves to open up potential scholarship collaboration among students and NSU faculty members, as exemplified by this lecture.

For more information on the Hot Topics in Psychology series, contact Jaime Tartar, Ph.D., assistant professor in the college’s Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at (954) 262-8192.