Congresess

Beyond Neuropsychiatric Diagnostics: Symptoms not Disorders

Mazagón (Huelva)

October 17 - 21 2007

The content of this congress, together with other contributions on this topic, will be collected in vol. 9 of the series "Strategies for studying Brain Disorders". To be Published mid way through 2008.

PROGRAMME

• Tomas Palomo, Spain
  Opening Remark

S1. COMMON NEUROCIRCUITS UNDERLYING COMMON SYMPTOMS IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

• Anthony Grace, USA
  Hippocampal dysfunction and disruption of dopamine system regulation in an animal model of schizophrenia
• David Lewis, USA
  Disruption of prefrontal circuits
• Françesc Artigas, Spain
  Antipsychotic actions in cortico-subcortical circuits
• Jose Borrell, Spain
  Maternal infection and brain development: Implications for schizophrenia
• Bita Moghaddam, USA
  Cognitive function mediated by prefrontal cortical neurotransmitters
• Michael Sutton, USA
  Dendritic mechanisms of synaptic plasticity

S2. PSYCHOSES

• Mark Geyer, USA
  Translational animal models of psychiatric symptoms
• Celso Arango, Spain
  Is type of cognitive impairment specific to different psychosis diagnoses?
• Anissa Abi-Dargham, USA
  Relationships between dopamine function and clinical dimensions
• Douglas Blackwood, UK
  Chromosomal abnormalities and psychosis
• Siegfried Tuinier, The Netherlands
  Psychoses as an aspecific expression of disordered brain function
• José Luis Vázquez-Barquero, Spain
  Effectiveness and metabolic alterations of conventional and atypical antipsychotics in first episode psychosis
• Robin M Murray, UK
  The biology of drug induced psychosis

S3. COGNITIVE SYMPTOMS

• Trevor Archer, Sweden
  Symptom-profiles under cognitive-affective deficit conditions
• Antonio Lobo, Spain
  Non-cognitive symptoms predict cognitive decline and dementia in the elderly community
• Jeremy Seamans, Canada
  What cellular mechanisms might underlie cognitive symptoms?
• Jose Mª Delgado, Spain
  Functional basis of associative learning in wild type and transgenic mice
• Lia Bevilaqua, Brazil
  Consolidation, reconsolidation and the persistence of memory
• Ivan Izquierdo, Brazil
  Multiple parallel molecular cascades are in charge of memory formation; the failure of any one may be disruptive

S4. MOTOR EXPRESSIONS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS
In memory of Werner Schmidt

• Richard Beninger and Trevor Archer
  Werner Schmidt: (1950-2007) Pushing the Envelope of Neuroscience: A True Academician and Complete Gentleman
• Manfred Gerlach, USA
  Motor symptoms expressed by neuro-psychiatric diseases
• Richard Kostrzewa, UK
  Stereotypic behaviours related to levels of receptor-sensitivity
• Moussa Youdim, Israel
  Symptom-profile complexity in the movement disorders and their eventual containment

S5. NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH IN SPAIN

• REM-TAP: Spain New National Research Net for Psychiatric
  Disorders, Celso Arango and Françesc Artigas, Spain
• Opportunities for International Collaborative Research with Spain
  Richard Benninger, Robin M. Murray and Peter Kalivas

S6. IMPULSIVITY

• Giovanni Laviola, Italy
  Animal models and mechanisms of impulsivity in adolescence
• Janet Hoenicka, Spain
  Behavioral disorders and the ANKK1 Kinase
• Cesar Avila, Spain
  Impulsivity as sensitivity to reward: a cognitive neuroscience approach 14
• Richard Beninger, Canada
  Dopamine receptor mechanisms of reward
• Guillermo Ponce, Spain
  Genetics and learning in psychopathic traits
• Peter Kalivas, USA
  Pathology in cortical regulation of habit circuits and loss of control

S7. ANHEDONIA AND AFFECT

• Michel Le Moal, France
  Complex features of biobehavioral pathologies: difficulties for an experimental psychopathology
• Ian Reid, UK
  Mood disorder and early life trauma: symptom profiles
• Aleksander A. Mathe, Sweden
  Neurochemical effects of maternal separation
• Mary Phillips, USA
  The neural basis of affect and anhedonia
• Roy A. Wise, USA
  Dopamine and reward: the anhedonia hypothesis 30 years on