10/03/2004
Scientists discuss role of genetics in psychiatric disorders
Scientists and mental health experts are gathering in Belfast today to discuss the role of genetics in psychiatric disorders.
Organised by Queen's University's Neuroscience Research Group, which is based in the School of Medicine, the event will be run in association with the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP).
Among the speakers will be Professor Gavin Reynolds, who is internationally known in the field of schizophrenia research and who took up the post last week as Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine at Queen's. He was formerly based at the University of Sheffield.
The conference is examining the issue of how genetics can play a role in predicting how psychiatric patients will respond to treatment. It will also look at whether risk of adverse effects from drug treatments can be predicted.
Other speakers include Dr Maria Arranz, from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, Dr Tony O'Neill, from Queen's, who was part of the team that discovered that the dysbindin gene is linked to schizophrenia and Professor Alessandro Serretti, from Milan's University Vita-Salute.
According to organiser Dr Stephen Cooper, head of the Department of Mental Health, and director of the Neuroscience Research Group, the conference will allow experts to examine an important area of clinically related genetic research.
The conference, in Malone House, Barnett Demesne, is running from 12.15pm to 5pm.
(MB)
Organised by Queen's University's Neuroscience Research Group, which is based in the School of Medicine, the event will be run in association with the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP).
Among the speakers will be Professor Gavin Reynolds, who is internationally known in the field of schizophrenia research and who took up the post last week as Professor of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine at Queen's. He was formerly based at the University of Sheffield.
The conference is examining the issue of how genetics can play a role in predicting how psychiatric patients will respond to treatment. It will also look at whether risk of adverse effects from drug treatments can be predicted.
Other speakers include Dr Maria Arranz, from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, Dr Tony O'Neill, from Queen's, who was part of the team that discovered that the dysbindin gene is linked to schizophrenia and Professor Alessandro Serretti, from Milan's University Vita-Salute.
According to organiser Dr Stephen Cooper, head of the Department of Mental Health, and director of the Neuroscience Research Group, the conference will allow experts to examine an important area of clinically related genetic research.
The conference, in Malone House, Barnett Demesne, is running from 12.15pm to 5pm.
(MB)
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