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What Lies Between—Extracellular Matrix and Schizophrenia
8 February 2010. When searching for clues to schizophrenia in the brain, it's important to look in the seemingly open spaces between neurons...
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Research Brief: From Fibroblast to Neuron in One Easy Step
1 February 2010. It’s time to cut out the middleman—why go from fibroblasts, to induced pluripotent stem cells, to neurons, if one can skip straight to the payload?...
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Timing is Everything—Perinatal DISC1 and Later Behavior Changes
21 January 2010. Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is one of the most promising schizophrenia gene candidates, but exactly how it might increase susceptibility to the disease is unclear...
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DISC1 Is Special! A 20-year Anniversary Conference in Edinburgh
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Don't waste a second in making your plans for the premier meeting in schizophrenia research this year: DISC1 2010 in Edinburgh, 3-6 September 2010! |
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Just 20 years ago, David St Clair, David Blackwood, Walter Muir, and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh reported that all the people in an extended Scottish family with major mental illness—and only those family members—had a major genomic abnormality: one end of chromosome 1 had been swapped for a bit of chromosome 11.
Then, 10 years ago, their Edinburgh molecular geneticist colleagues, led by David Porteous and Kirsty Millar, isolated the gene at the chromosome 1 breakpoint and named it "disrupted in schizophrenia 1." The rest is history, as it has become the "special" gene for major mental disorders, but especially for schizophrenia.
Now the pioneers of the "DISC-o-Sphere" are inviting their fellow enthusiasts to travel to scenic Scotland this fall. DISC1 2010 will mix invited speeches with shorter talks and posters (see the list of invited speakers). Standard preregistration is open already, and you can take advantage of Early Bird rates until 30 April 2010. Abstracts are due by July.
A special bonus comes with a special warning—the conference coincides with the final weekend of the Edinburgh Festival. This means that you will be able to sample one of world's most famous arts and culture festivals, but it also means that you’d better get your room and travel sorted out very soon!
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SRF New Feature—Google Grants and Meetings Calendar
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Perhaps you've noticed a new item in our left menu in recent weeks. We've added a "Community Calendar" to our Resources section. You'll find it near the bottom, just above "General Information."
Currently, it includes conferences of interest to our readers (all the ones listed in our Conference Calendar), and in the case of the most relevant conferences, important deadlines. The second major category is grant application deadlines—primarily those that recur each year on the same date, but also important ones in schizophrenia research that change from year to year. Finally, we will list SRF-sponsored events like Live Discussions.
Please take a look, see what you think, and let us know what else you'd like to see on the calendar. In particular, we would like to post any recurring deadlines for EU grants or other such significant funders to which you can point us.
As you'll notice, it's a Google calendar, so if you are a devotee of this simple Web-based way of organizing different parts of your life, you can add individual events from the SRF Community Calendar, or the whole thing, to your own Google calendar (see instructions at the Calendar page). Our special thanks to SRF Advisor Anil Malhotra for this idea.
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UPDATED Live Discussion: Hippocampus in Schizophrenia Roundtable
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On 16 November 2009 Stephan Heckers of Vanderbilt University and Tony Grace of the University of Pittsburgh led us through a discussion of the "seahorse" of the brain, the hippocampus, in schizophrenia. We have now posted the transcript and invite you to read the conversation about the findings from neuroimaging and postmortem research, as well animal work that suggests insights about the hippocampus's role in the neurocircuitry of schizophrenia. If you missed the discussion, or attended and didn't say everything on your mind, please read the transcript and let us know what you find most compelling in the seahorse of the brain....
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Welcome to the Schizophrenia Research Forum!
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Welcome to the Schizophrenia Research Forum website—a virtual community for science about schizophrenia and related disorders. Our Mission is to help researchers in their quest for causes, improved treatments, and better understanding of schizophrenia. Read more about ways to browse the site.
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What's New
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Comments - Posted 8 February 2010
Read remarks by Brian Morris about Somenarain L et al.
PAPER: A comparative study of MAP2 immunostaining in areas 9 and 17 in schizophrenia and Huntington chorea. |
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Comments - Posted 8 February 2010
Read remarks by John McGrath about
Vierbuchen T et al.
NEWS: Research Brief: From Fibroblast to Neuron in One Easy Step |
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In Search of Research Participants - Posted 4 February 2010
The Division of Addiction Psychiatry is always looking for individuals to participate in our studies. Most studies will compensate you for your time. |
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Jobs - Posted 4 February 2010
Research Assistant Professor Position: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
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Comments - Posted 3 February 2010
Read remarks by Daniel Weinberger about Dickson SP et al.
PAPER: Rare Variants Create Synthetic Genome-Wide Associations |
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Comments - Posted 2 February 2010
Read remarks by Jennifer Barnett about Papassotiropoulos A et al.
PAPER: A genome-wide survey of human short-term memory. |
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