2nd National Symposium
Genes, Neurons & Mental Illness, 2003

Friday, 29th August 2003, 8.55am – 5.15pm
Stephen Roberts Lecture Theatre, Eastern Avenue
The University of Sydney

Chaired by Maxwell Bennett, AO

Program Time

Notes Available?

Program Item

8.55 - 9.00

Introduction

9.00 - 9.30

Christos Pantelis
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research & Academic Unit, Sunshine Hospital
Mapping the Brain in Schizophrenia - A Neurodevelopmental Perspective.

9.30 - 10.00

Gary Egan
Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology & Medicine, University of Melbourne
Investigations of functional connectivity in auditory hallucinations using PET, EEG and MRI.

10.00 - 10.30

Pat Michie
School of Behavioural Sciences, University of Newcastle
Neurocognitive endophenotype markers for schizophrenia.

10.30 - 11.00

Assen Jablensky
School of Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia
Phenotype-Genotype Relationships in Psychiatric Disorders.

11.00 - 11.30

Morning Tea

11.30 - 12.00

Perry Bartlett
The Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
Regulating Neuronal Production In The Adult Brain: Opportunities for Restoring Brain Function.

12.00 - 12.30

Mike Calford
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle
Activity dependent maintenance and growth of dendrites in adult cerebral cortex - a mechanism for plasticity.

12.30 - 1.00

Pankaj Sah
The Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
Synaptic circuitry and plasticity in the amygdala: storage of fear related memories.

1.00 - 1.30

MacDonald Christie
Pain Management Research Institute, University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital
Why is there a monkey on my back? Neural systems and addiction.

1.30 - 2.30

Lunch

2.30 - 3.00

Philip Mitchell
School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales
Studies in bipolar disorder.

3.00- 3.30

Peter Schofield
Neurobiology Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Genetic and genomic approaches to understanding the etiology of bipolar disorder.

3.30 - 4.00

Nick Martin
Queensland Institute of Medical Research and Joint Genetics Program
Looking for genes for anxiety and depression using extreme discordant and concordant twins
and siblings.

4.00 - 4.15

Afternoon Tea

4.15 - 4.45

Pat McGorry
ORYGEN Research Centre
The early intervention paradigm in psychiatry: a gateway to neurobiological understanding and improved outcomes.

4.45 - 5.15

Ian Hickie
Brain & Mind Research Institute (BMRI), University of Sydney
Post-infective fatigue syndromes: determining genetic and environmental risk factors.