Consortium for Vision and Oculomics in Psychiatry (CVOP)
1st Annual Meeting
We are excited to announce the First Annual CVOP Meeting in Rochester, NY from July 11-12, 2024!
Abstract submissions are now closed.
Early-bird registration will open May 10, 2024.
For conference program information, please see below.
Registration
Select the registration type that corresponds to your CVOP membership level and click “Register”. You will then be asked to fill out the registration form.
Please direct any questions to cvop@cvop.org.
Hotels & Accomodations
CVOP has a room block reservation at the Hilton Garden Inn at the University of Rochester/Medical Center.
To reserve, please use this link.
Dates: July 10-13, 2024
Rate: $194/night
Deadline: June 17, 2024
CVOP Inaugural Conference Program (PDF here)
Rochester, NY | July 11-12, 2024
Thursday, July 11th:
08:00 AM – 09:00 AM
Continental breakfast (Outside Class of ‘62 Auditorium, G-9525)
09:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Introductory Remarks | Steven Silverstein (Class of ‘62 Auditorium, G-9525)
Goals of CVOP
Recent findings on retinal changes in schizophrenia and their clinical signficance
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Paper Session 1: Retina and pupil findings in psychopathology (Class of ‘62 Auditorium, G-9525)
Retinal degeneration in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: A nested case-control study from the UK Biobank (Erik Velez-Perez)
Deep transfer learning-based diagnosis of psychiatric disorders using retinal fundus images (Abhishek Appaji)
Pupil light reflex across the psychosis risk spectrum (Jessica Fattal)
Simultaneous measurements of retinal and cortical response in patients with early-stage psychosis (Vincent Laprevote)
12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Poster session and lunch (Flaum Atrium; Please see bottom of schedule for full list of posters and presentations)
02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Paper Session 2: Eye movement and binocular rivarlry findings in psychopathology (Class of ‘62 Auditorium)
Slowed alpha oscillations and percept formation in psychotic psychopathology (Scott Sponheim)
Faster bi-stable visual switching and impaired attention in psychosis (Michael-Paul Schallmo)
Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of disrupted oculomotor corollary discharge in schizophrenia (Sonia Bansal)
Impairment of visual fixation and preparatory saccade control in borderline personality disorder with and without co-morbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (Olivia Calancie)
03:00 PM – 03:15 PM
Mini coffee break
03:15 PM – 04:45 PM
Keynote Address I: Michel Maziade (Class of ‘62 Auditorium)
Functional and structural retinal anomalies in children at familial risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Novel views on the disorders’ development, early detection and prevention
04:45 PM – 05:30 PM
Mentor-mentee meetings / free time
06:00 PM –
Informal gathering for drinks and food at Grappa (restaurant at the Hilton Garden Inn)
Friday, July 12th:
08:00 AM – 09:00 AM
Continental breakfast (Outside Class of ‘62 Auditorium, G-9525)
09:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Keynote Address II: Pamela Butler (Class of ‘62 Auditorium)
Altered contrast sensitivity in schizophrenia: Implications for pathophysiology and visual and cognitive impairments
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Paper Session 3: Visual cortex and low-level vision changes in psychopathology (Class of ‘62 Auditorium, G-9525)
Structural changes in the visual cortex of in individuals with psychotic disorders (Bilge Turkozer)
Functional dysconnectivity of visual and somato-motor networks yields a simple and robust biomarker for psychosis (Brian Keane)
Individual differences in alpha EEG frequency are associated with visual backward masking thresholds in schizophrenia (Eric Reavis)
Does increased internal noise explain apparent reduced use of visuospatial context during contrast perception in individuals with schizophrenia? (Victor Pokorny)
Preliminary analysis of the contrast response function and its modulation by spatial attention in first-episode psychosis (Alfredo Sklar)
Workshop 1: Clinical translation of oculomics research in psychiatry (Ryan Case Method Room)
Workshop2: Oculomics data and methods sharing (Class of ’62 Auditorium)
12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Parallel workshops and lunch
02:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Coffee Break
02:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Paper Session 4: High-level visual processing and awareness changes in psychopathology (Class of ‘62 Auditorium)
Sensory noise predicts capacity limits of visual working memory and accounts for working memory deficits in schizophrenia (Duje Tadin)
Alpha oscillations and attention lapsing during visual working memory in serious mental illness (Molly Erickson)
Lesion network guided transcranial electrical stimulation delivered to visual cortex in Charles Bonnet Syndrome reduces treatment-resistant visual hallucinations (Paulo Lizano)
Time expectation in vision and sense of self: an optic flow to restore time expectation? (Anne Giersch)
04:30 PM – 05:15 PM
Members’ Business Meeting, including future planning (Class of ‘62 Auditorium)
Poster Presentations
Retinal neurodegeneration in schizophrenia and its association with polygenic risk score: Data from two large cohorts
Brittany Blose
Retinal imaging findings in people at clinical high risk (CHR) for development of a psychotic disorder
Iwona Juskiewicz
A comparison of mood and psychotic disorder patients on retinal neural structure as measured by optical coherence tomography
Retinovascular alterations in early course psychosis – A widefield optical coherence tomography angiography study
Kaitlyn Kaiser
Daman Parduman Dhunna
Functional retinal alterations are associated with cognition in early-course psychosis
Willa Molho
The effects of elevated tnfα levels on feedforward visual processing
Tanique McDonald
Oculomics in schizophrenia – a meta-analysis
Nicole Lalta
Pupil dilation under cognitive load and its relation to depressive symptom severity
Isha Nayak
Distinct antisaccade correction kinetics in psychosis biotypes
Center-surround contrast suppression across the psychosis continuum
Ling-Yu Huang
Sarah Jones
Stronger first-order but not second-order motion aftereffects in individuals with schizophrenia
Christophe Delay
Neural processing of ambiguous visual information in psychotic psychopathology
Kayla Donaldson
A compendium of considerations for methods in motion-induced blindness research
Vishnu Soni
Seven ways to avoid visual acuity confounds in studies of special populations
Howard Bi
Visual perceptual abnormalities and visual dysfunction in early course psychosis
Chelsea Kiely
Judy Thompson
Perceptual disturbances across psychosis phenotypes
Relationships between low-level visual impairment, subjective visual distortions, and core clinical symptoms and functioning in
Yunyuang Zhang
individuals with schizophrenia
The relationship between oculomotor measures of efference copy and flicker-induced hallucinations
Christian Wallis
Biases present in the visual comparison of global local patterns
Increased face perception on the Mooney Faces Test in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis: Replication, extension, and
clinical correlates
Catherine Tolland
Tanya Tran
Assessment of visually-, proprioception-, and memory-guided reaching behavior in schizophrenia in a virtual reality task
Jose Reynoso