International Conference: Current knowledge in psychiatric epidemiology

22.06.2009

The international conference entitled "Current Knowledge in Psychiatric Epidemiology" will be held in Oulu, Finland, in November 26th and 27th 2009. The organisers of the conference are Oulu Psychiatric Epidemiology Society (OPES), University of Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and Research School of Psychiatry.

Date: November 26-27, 2009
Venue: Auditorium 101A, Medical Faculty, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Organisers: Oulu Psychiatric Epidemiology Society (OPES), Graduate School of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, and Oulu University Hospital

Programme:
 

Thursday, 26.11.2009

9.00-9.15 Coffee
9.15-9.30 Opening of the conference
9.30-10.15 European epidemiological cohort studies
Professor Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland; Imperial College London, United Kingdom
10.15-11.00 Studies on psychosis prodrome - Concepts in clinical practice and epidemiology. Professor Peter Jones, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
11.00-12.30 Poster session and lunch
12.30-13.15 Genome-wide analyses of psychiatric disorders
Adjunct Professor Tiina Paunio, National Institute for Health and Welfare,
Helsinki, Finland
13.15-14.00 New possibilities of register studies in psychiatry in Finland
Professor Mika Gissler, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden
14.00-14.15 Coffee
14.15-15.00 Psychiatric follow-up of the school massacres in Jokela and Kauhajoki
Professor Mauri Marttunen, National Institute for Health and Welfare,
Helsinki, Finland

Friday, 27.11.2009

9.30-9.45 Coffee
9.45-10.30 Differential epidemiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Professor Robin Murray, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
10.30-11.15 Epidemiology of mental disorders in Finland: The Health 2000 study
Adjunct Professor Jaana Suvisaari, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
11.15-12.45 Poster session and lunch
12.45-13.30 What can epidemiology of depression and brain imaging learn from each other? Professor Hasse Karlsson, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
13.30-14.15 The cognitive phenotype and functional neurobiology of autism, ADHD and schizophrenia: Overlaps and differences
Professor Sven Bölte, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
14.15-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.15 MRI studies in psychiatry - Will psychiatry be neurology some day?
Senior Clinical Research Associate Graham Murray, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
15.15-15.30 Closing of the conference
 

More information and registration: www.opes.fi/conference-2009/