Professor Ruocco presents on his foundational research on brain biology in people with lived experience of borderline personality disorder (BPD).
He covers research on brain circuits involved in emotion regulation, impulse control, and social perception, and include more recent discoveries on family members of people with lived experience of this diagnosis. These findings will be considered from a strength-based perspective, including how characteristics of people with lived experience of BPD might be conceptualised along the spectrum of neurodiversity.
This event is being held to show our support for BPD Awareness Month in the USA, UK and Europe. BPD Awareness Week is held in Australia 1-7 October each year.
Dr. Anthony C. Ruocco, PhD., is Professor, Graduate Chair and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychological Clinical Science at the University of Toronto. He is a licensed psychologist registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. He completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Neuropsychology track) at Drexel University and his predoctoral internship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Cognitive Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago and he completed a concurrent postdoctoral residency in Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago.
Dr. Ruocco is recognized for his research on neurocognitive, social-cognitive, and neuroimaging studies of borderline personality disorder, including family studies, investigations of brain structure and function, and the impacts of psychotherapies and brain stimulation treatment on symptoms, cognition, and brain function.