Zarrow Symposium

NEAR Science: Beyond ACEs, a fascinating area of mental health

With very little exception, our entire staff attends a monthly training which serves to augment our understanding of the organization, the mission we strive to fulfill and the people we serve. Each session proves valuable, offering a layer of insight previously unknown, and each one is dotted with “aha” moments that are critical in adapting …

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Zarrow Now: Dr. Kara Bagot discusses trends in adolescent addiction and the impact of digital and mobile technologies

Dr. Kara Bagot closed out our 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium keynote sessions with a fascinating, if not jarring, presentation on trends in adolescent addiction. Keeping with the modern world in which we live, she spoke not just of substance use, but also of technology addiction, as well as the impact of covid on trends …

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Zarrow Now: Dr. Xiaosi Gu expounds on the use of AI in mental health

Our second keynote for the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium: New Horizons in Brain Science was Dr. Xiaosi Gu. Dr. Gu’s presentation, entitled Computational Psychiatry: Can AI Solve the Mental Health Crisis? blended decades of extensive research with the emerging and intricate technology of Artificial Intelligence. Unexpected at the start was her declarative that this …

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Zarrow Now: Dr. Xavier Amador’s relationship with his brother was the foundation for LEAP

MHAOK is honored to have Dr. Xavier Amador as our first keynote speaker of the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium: New Horizons in Brain Science. His presentation aptly shares a name with his best-selling book, “I AM NOT SICK! I don’t need help!” It was compelling, educative and filled with ‘aha moments.’ Like most good …

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Susan Magsamen discusses ‘your brain on art’

With the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium less than ten days away, we are thrilled to release another keynote speaker conversation on the Mental Health Download, our podcast dedicated to exploring homelessness, mental illness, suicide, incarceration and innovative tools for addressing these challenges. Today, we featured Susan Magsamen, founder and executive director of the International …

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Dr. Xavier Amador sheds insight on the effects of anosognosia

We’re less than one month from the 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium, and we are so excited to be talking to many of this year’s presenters on the Mental Health Download, our podcast dedicated to exploring homelessness, mental illness, suicide, incarceration and innovative tools for addressing these challenges. Today, Mental Health Association Oklahoma’s Chief Programs …

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Zarrow Mental Health Symposium focuses on new horizons in brain science

Early bird pricing for the virtual 2023 Zarrow Mental Health Symposium ends in just two weeks. This year’s theme is New Horizons in Brain Science – a simple name for what is inarguably a complex field. With educational sessions such as ‘Neurobiology and Eating Disorders’, ‘Why Opioids are Hard to Beat’,  or ‘Getting Started with …

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Zarrow Now: Dr. Claudia Black

Dr. Claudia Black graced the screens of over 800 attendees for this afternoon’s Zarrow Symposium 2022 Keynote Speaker session.  Her extensive work with children impacted by substance use disorders in the late 1970s created the foundation for the adult-child movement, lending international recognition for her contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Though our …

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Zarrow Now: Dr. Stuart Ablon

MHAOK is honored to have Dr. Stuart Ablon as our first Zarrow Symposium 2022 Keynote Speaker. His presentation entitled “Rethinking Challenging Behavior: It’s about skill, not will” was compelling, educative, and filled with ‘aha moments.’  Dr. Ablon offered a paradigm shift in understanding challenging behavior in our children (and ourselves) that combines neuroscience, compassion and …

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