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Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatric Disorders: is a mental illness that is diagnosed by a mental health professional that greatly disturbs your thinking, moods and behavior which can in turn increase a person's risk of disability, pain or death. A large number of psychiatric disorders have been identified over the years and sometimes may also cause physical symptoms.
MAR 17, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder are all uniquely human conditions. Psychiatric conditions include alterations in several different and overlapping domains (NIMH RDoC). Each...
MAR 17, 2016 | 10:30 AM
The adolescent brain has been forged by evolution to have different features than those of a child or an adult, but it is not broken or defective. Phenomenal ability to adapt to environ...
MAR 17, 2016 | 7:30 AM
Schizophrenia (Sz) is a major mental disorder that affects ~1% of the population. Although traditional models of Sz focused on dopaminergic dysfunction, newer models increasingly implic...
MAR 16, 2016 | 10:30 AM
Innovation in Psychopharmacology is Dead. Long Live Innovation in Psychopharmacology! What’s going on in our field? Priorities of Big Pharma shifting away fr...
MAR 16, 2016 | 6:00 AM
Our goal - To Understand the Neurobiology of Emotions and Affect and Its Relevance to Psychiatric Disorders. This includes: Understanding basic mechanisms of affect, stre...
NOV 24, 2015 | 6:00 AM
DATE: November 24, 2015TIME: 9am EST, 2pm GMTFor many years now, gels have been a fundamental research tool in academic research for the separation and analysis of nucleic acids and pro...
MAR 19, 2015 | 12:00 PM
There is growing interest internationally in elucidating the clinical and biological profile of those at high genetic risk to bipolar disorder (BD) so as to enable the development of targeted...
MAR 18, 2015 | 12:00 PM
The hippocampal formation is one of the most extensively studied regions of the brain, with well described anatomy and basic physiology; moreover, aspects of human memory mediated by hippocam...
