SYMPOSIUM: School of Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences Symposium

The School Symposium will focus around the following major themes:

POPULATION MENTAL HEALTH - Australians living with mental illness: a national survey. Pregnancy and birth complications in women with psychotic disorders: a record linkage study. Development of culturally applicable diagnostic tools for the assessment of Aboriginal mental health problems.

NEUROBIOLOGY OF MENTAL DISORDERS - From linkage to genes: DNA sequence variants in candidate genes on chromosome 6p associated with schizophrenia. Genetics and Alzheimer's disease: role of ApoE4 and other genetic risk factors. Proteolytic cleavage of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein to generate beta amyloid.

COGNITION AND MENTAL HEALTH - Relationship between cognitive and memory function in older adults from English and non-English speaking backgrounds. Cognitive mechanisms underlying auditory hallucinations.

TREATMENT, PREVENTION AND MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION - Very Low Dose (VLD) nortriptyline augmentation of standard antidepressants in unremitted depression. Research at the Unit for Research and Education in Drugs and Alcohol.

Poster presentations prepared by the School's postgraduate students will be held at various intervals throughout the day.

Due to strict number size, RSVP is ESSENTIAL.