2nd Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference
10/04/2010
AUDITORIUM
17.00 - 18.30
Keynote Lecture
Elyn Saks
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness
11/04/2010
AUDITORIUM
08.30 - 10.30
Plenary Session - Anticipating DSM-V: New Paradigms
William Carpenter
DSM-V: New Paradigms and other Controversies
Richard Keefe
Neurocognition
Alex Hofer
Social Cognition
Dieter Naber
Quality of Life
Kim Mueser
Return to Work
10.30 - 12.00
New Directions for Animal Modeling in Schizophrenia
Bita Moghaddam
New Directions for Animal Modeling in Schizophrenia
Inna Gaisler-Salomon
Interfacing NMDA deficiency and other pharmacological model with genetic models.
Akira Sawa
Moving from gene to function in mutant model of schizophrenia
Patricio O’Donnell
Developmental animal models, thinking beyond the lesion models
Peter J. Uhlhaas
Translational measures of function in animal models of schizophrenia
Bita Moghaddam
conclusion
12/04/2010
AUDITORIUM
08.30 - 09.30
Plenary Session - Clinical Implications of Recent Genetic Findings: GWAS, Endophenotypes and Commercial testing
Michael Owen
09.30 - 10.30
Where have the new GWAS gotten us?
Peter Visscher
Pablo Gejman
10.30 - 11.00
Is the endophenotype concept useful in defining genes for schizophrenia?
Lynn DeLisi
Dan Rujescu
11.00 - 12.00
Will commercial DNA testing ever be as useful tool in the clinic for schizophrenia?
James Kennedy