3rd National Symposium
Genes, Neurons & Mental Illness, 2004

Friday, 3rd September 2004, 10.00am – 5.30pm
Brain & Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney
100 Mallet St, Camperdown (next to Faculty of Nursing)

Chaired by Maxwell Bennett, AO

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Program Time

Seminar Transcript (available after the symposium)

Program Item

9.55 - 10.00

Introduction

10.00 - 10.20

Pat McGorry, ORYGEN Research Centre, Melbourne
Clinical Staging in Psychosis and Mood Disorders: A Heuristic Model for Intervention and Neuroscientific Research

10.20 - 10.40

Alison Yung, University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry
Specialised interventions for young people at high-risk of psychosis

10.40 - 11.00

Henry Jackson, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne
Psychological treatments: their role in symptomatic and social recovery

11.00 - 11.20

Ian Hickie, Brain & Mind Research Institute (BMRI), University of Sydney
Prevention and early intervention in severe mood disorders

11.20 - 11.50

John McGrath, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research
The role of early life non-genetic risk factors on brain development

11.50 - 1.00

Lunch

1.00 - 1.30

Assen Jablensky, Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry, University of WA
“Kraepelinian” and “Bleulerian” Schizophrenia: A Genetic Dissection of a Cognitive Endophenotype

1.30-2.00

Peter Schofield, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute & Garvan Institute
Genotype-phenotype correlations of brain and mind function

2.00-2.30

Emma Whitelaw, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney
A possible role for epigenetics in complex diseases

2.30-3.00

Wayne Hall, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of QLD
The ethics of testing for genes for depressive disorders

3.00-3.30

Afternoon tea

3.30-4.00

Dhanisha Jhaveri, The Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
Neurogenesis: A Regulator of Mental Health

4.00-4.30

Stephen Wood, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne
Can we track changes in brain imaging studies longitudinally?

4.30-5.00

Richard Banati, School of Medical Radiation Sciences, University of Sydney
Developing new algorithms for tracking changes in brain imaging studies

5.00-5.30

Stephen Redman, John Curtin Medical School, Australian National University
Synaptic transmission in areas of the brain that subserve memory

5.30

Conclusion