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ICOSR 2013—Is the Psychosis Continuum for Real?
20 May 2013.
A symposium sought to further increase awareness of the presence of psychotic symptoms amongst individuals who do not meet diagnostic criteria for a psychotic disorder...
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ICOSR 2013: Mysterious RNAs Provide Clues for Schizophrenia
13 May 2013.
MicroRNAs (and one not-so-microRNA) took center stage in two symposiums at the International Congress for Schizophrenia Research held in Orlando, Florida...
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IPRN 2013—Divvying Up the Prodrome
30 April 2013.
Given the 11 promising studies on treating early stages of psychosis, Robert Heinssen suggested a framework that treated people according to the severity of their symptoms...
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IPRN 2013—Identifying and Treating the Psychosis Prodrome
26 April 2013.
More than 100 researchers gathered to discuss the early stages of oncoming psychosis at the meeting of the International Prodromal Research Network...
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ICOSR 2013—Exploring Variation in Schizophrenia Around the Globe
24 April 2013.
As part of our ongoing coverage of the 2013 ICOSR, we bring you session summaries from some of the Young Investigator travel award winners...
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SfN 2012—Functional Disturbances and Molecular Alterations in Psychosis
3 December 2012.
A nanosymposim entitled Brain Alterations in Psychosis: Functional and Molecular was moderated by Sabina Berretta at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting...
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SfN 2012—Olfactory Neurons and Suspect SNPs in Psychotic Disorders
20 November 2012.
Amanda Mitchell moderated a nanosymposium entitled Stem Cell and Epigenetic Analyses in Psychotic Disorders...
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SfN 2012—Opto- and Pharmacogenetics: New Ways to Study Memory and AD
15 November 2012.
By allowing researchers to turn on or off specific classes of neurons in mice at will, optogenetics and pharmacogenetics promise to revolutionize the field of neuroscience...
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SfN 2012—Opto- and Pharmacogenetics: New Methods Shed Light on Brain Processes
15 November 2012.
Have neuroscientists entered the era of the programmable brain?...
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SfN 2012—Nanosymposium Spans Genes to Experimental Drugs for Psychosis
13 November 2012.
At the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, a nanosymposium entitled Molecular Genetics and Experimental Therapeutics in Psychotic Disorders was held...
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WCPG 2012—Phenotype and Function in Schizophrenia Genomics
6 November 2012.
The 20th World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, held in Hamburg, Germany, ended with two plenary talks that left attendees with a lot to ponder...
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WCPG 2012—Schizophrenia GWAS Make Waves
1 November 2012.
The search for the common variants that contribute to psychiatric disorders using genomewide association studies (GWAS) continues...
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SfN 2012—The Human Connectome Project: Deciphering the Brain’s Wiring
30 October 2012.
A National Institutes of Health initiative seeks to map the connections of the healthy human brain and provide a huge reference database freely available to researchers...
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WCPG 2012—Animal Models and CNVs
23 October 2012.
Though psychiatric diseases are uniquely human, they have aspects that can be fruitfully modeled in animals...
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WCPG 2012—Baby Steps for Sequencing in Schizophrenia
18 October 2012.
More than 600 people gathered in Hamburg, Germany, to attend the 20th World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics...
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Can We All Agree on How to Draw a Hippo(campus)?
7 August 2012.
As to precisely where the hippocampus starts and stops on a magnetic resonance image, researchers have little consensus...
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SIRS 2012—Schizophrenia Drug Development: Does the Pipeline Have A Pulse?
5 June 2012.
The final day of the Schizophrenia International Research Society meeting in Florence began with a session on new drug development ...
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SIRS 2012—Psychological and Social Treatment for Schizophrenia
1 June 2012.
At the 2012 SIRS meeting speakers reviewed the research on some of the non-pharmacologic treatments aimed at improving cognitive and social function in people with schizophrenia...
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SIRS 2012—The Interactive, the Progressive, and the Hippocampal
30 May 2012.
SRF brings you conference news including gene-environment interactions contributing to schizophrenia risk, evidence for brain changes, and mechanistic models of psychosis...
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SIRS 2012—Can Schizophrenia Patients Put Trust in Oxytocin?
16 May 2012.
In one of the last sessions of the 2012 SIRS meeting, a group of diehards heard a series of talks exploring the potential of oxytocin as a treatment for schizophrenia...
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SIRS 2012—The Challenge of Predicting Psychosis With Brain Imaging
9 May 2012.
Although the first psychotic episode in schizophrenia may seem to come on suddenly, it typically reflects the culmination of subtle shifts in behavior...
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SIRS 2012—Immunology Takes Center Stage
4 May 2012.
At the 2012 Schizophrenia International Research Society meeting, plenary talks focused on roles for the immune system in schizophrenia...
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SIRS 2012—Schizophrenia Genetics: The Pile of Puzzle Pieces Grows
1 May 2012.
More than 1,600 researchers and clinicians gathered in to discuss new schizophrenia research at the Third Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) conference...
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SfN 2011—Connectomics and Schizophrenia (Part 2)
4 April 2012.
Resting-state fMRI is an increasingly popular technique that measures spontaneous, low-frequency fluctuations in blood oxygen level dependent signals while subjects lie at rest...
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ICOSR 2011—Predicting Outcome in Early Psychosis
16 December 2011.
Presenters eported on a number of new findings related to predicting the onset of psychosis and differential diagnosis in the context of complex psychiatric presentations...
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