Abstract
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder striking mainly young adults and leading to life-long disability in a substantial portion of the sufferers. On the other hand, substantial knowledge about its etiology and pathogenesis is still lacking. Therefore the European Science Foundation (ESF) sponsored a meeting of a panel of European experts on schizophrenia research to discuss the state of art and future perspectives of key topics in this area. The fields covered genetics, epidemiology, animal models, molecular neuropathology and imaging. This was a first step to establish a network of European groups dedicated to Schizophrenia research. The coming calls of the frame work program will be used to strengthen this network in order to achieve substantial progress in understanding and treating this devastating illness.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 224-232 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | European Psychiatry |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jun 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Two calls of the 6FTP-EU initiated intense activity among those European groups with a major interest in schizophrenia research. Several grant proposals were submitted but only the one around DECODE was funded. Subsequently a workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF) took place at the Institute of Psychiatry in London at 26th of October 2007. During the 1 day workshop the topics genetics, epidemiology, molecular neuropathology, animal models and imaging were discussed. For each topic, one leading expert gave a 15-min introduction trying to answer the following questions within their special area of interest:
Keywords
- Animal models
- Development of pharmacotropic agents from target proteins
- Epidemiology
- Gene-environment interaction
- Genetic of psychiatric illnesses
- Genetics
- Genetics, function of susceptibility genes
- Imaging
- Imaging and bipolar disorders
- Imaging and early recognition
- Imaging, molecular neuropathology
- Large-scale clinical studies on schizophrenia
- Molecular neuropathology, function of susceptibility genes