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Meeting Schedule


Friday, 5 August 2011

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Registration
8:00 pm

Opening Keynote Lecture
Welcome Address Wagner F. Gattaz
Sir Robin M. Murray- At last the Beginnings of Coherent Theories of Schizophrenia

9:00 pm Cocktail Reception

Saturday 6 August 2011 (Saturday Morning)
8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration
9:00 am - 10:15 am

Plenary Session I – Epidemiology / High-risk and prodrome       
Paulo R. Menezes- Incidence and outcome of schizophrenia in Latin America
Rodrigo Bressan- Young people at risk for psychosis: research update and clinical implications
Questions and answers

10:15am - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Plenary Session II – Genomics / Pathophysiology
Lynn DeLisi- Genomics of schizophrenia: critical review of current approaches
Marco A. Romano-Silva- Molecular mechanisms in the neuropathology of schizophrenia
José A. Crippa- Is the association between cannabis and psychosis beyond any reasonable doubt?

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch and Visit to Posters

Saturday 6 August 2011 (Saturday Afternoon)

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Oral sessions I, II and III*
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Oral Session I - Genomics and Proteomics
Grande Auditório

Chairs:  Prof. Sir Robin Murray and Lynn DeLisi, M.D.

Aida Ruiz -Molecular Genetic Analyses of Schizophrenia in South America
Sinitia Belangero - Functional Polymorphisms of DGCR2 Gene may Play a Role on Schizophrenia pathogenesis and on antipsychotics treatment response
JennyGarcia-Valencia - Association between NOS1AP Gene and Clinical Subtypes of Schizophrenia 
Martinus van de Bilt - Greater Prevalence of Ultra-rapid Drug Metabolizers between Refractory Schizophrenia Patients? A Pharmacogenetic Study
Daniel Martins-de-Souza - What does Proteomics in Human Brain Tissue tell us about Schizophrenia?
Marcos Santoro - Expression of Neurotransmitter Receptor and Regulator Genes in the Prefrontal Cortex in a New Animal Model of Schizophrenia:  the Spontaneous Hypertensive Rats (SHR)

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Oral Session II - Boundaries of Psychotic Disorders
Auditório Amarelo Chairs: Wagner Gattaz, M.D., Ph.D. & Jorge Ospina-Duque, M.D.

Natalia Mota - Graph Analysis of Psychotic Speech: Differential Diagnosis Between Schizophrenia and Mania
Rafael de Souza - The Efficacy of Lithium in Psychotic Features of Bipolar Mania: Early Improvement and its Association with Later Response
Sheila Caetano - Dysfunctional Family Environment in Offspring of Parents with Psychotic and Non-Psychotic Bipolar Disorder
Maristela Spanghero - Psychotic and Non-psychotic Unipolar Depression: Clinical and Biological Differences
Ruda Alessi - Risk Factors for the Occurrence of Schizophrenia-like Psychosis in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
Antonio Sa - Obsessive-compulsive Symptoms and Eisorder in Patients with Schizophrenia Treated with Clozapine or Haloperidol

2:30 pm - 4:00pm Oral Session III - Neurochemistry/Psychopharmacology
Auditório Verde Chairs: John Kane, M.D. and Deepak D'Souza, M.D.

Deepak D'Souza -"Gone to Pot": Evidence from Laboratory Studies with Δ-9-THC 
Linda Scoriels - Differential Metabolic Profile in First Episode Psychosis Supports the Glutamate Theory for Schizophrenia
Ary Gadelha - Plasma Oligopeptidase Activity is lower in Schizophrenic Patients Compared to Healthy Controls
Mariana Calzavara - D1 and D2 Dopamine Receptors Modulate The Contextual Fear Conditioning Deficit Presented By SHR: Strenghthening This Animal Model Of Emotional Processing Deficits In Schizophrenia
Felipe Pacheco - Prenatal Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Causes Persistent Changes in the Oxidative Balance and in DNA Structural Integrity in Rats Submitted to the Animal Model of Schizophrenia
Victor Ricardo - Neonatal Hypoxia Enhances Dopamine-mediated Effects of Cocaine Repeated Administration in Adult Mice

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Coffee Break
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Oral sessions IV
* Concurrent oral sessions – in 2 rooms simultaneously (topics covered: epidemiology, genomics, neuroimaging, animal models, treatment and side effects). Each including six presentations (15 minutes) of recent research studies by South American groups, with time for discussion (30 minutes) with international experts from SIRS.
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm Oral Session IV - Neuroimaging
Grande Auditório Chairs: Rene Kahn, M.D., Ph.D. and Geraldo Busatto, M.D.

Pedro Rosa - Brain Structure and the Prediction of Outcome in First-episode Schizophrenia-spectrum Disorders and Affective Psychosis: a population-based study
Mauricio Serpa - Corpus Callosum Volumes in Recent-onset Schizophrenia Predict Outcome of Positive Symptom Severity
Pedro Rosa - Structural Brain Changes in First Episode Schizophrenia: a 4-5 Year Follow-up Study Using MRI
Clarissa Trzesniak - Longitudinal Follow-up of Cavum Septum Pellucidum and Adhesio Interthalamica alterations in First-Episode Psychosis: a population-based MRI study
Marcus Zanetti - Neuroanatomical Pattern Classification of MRI Data: Discrimination of Different Psychotic Disorders at the First Episode
Silvia Arcuri - Functional Disconnectivity and Formal Thought Disorder in schizophrenia: Integrating clinical, neuropsychological, neuroimaging and functional connectivity data
Silvia Arcuri -Faulty Suppression of Irrelevant Material in Thought Disordered Schizophrenic Patients Associated with Attenuated Frontal and Temporal Brain Activation

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Oral Session V - Treatment/Health Care
Auditório Amarelo Chairs: Helio Elkis, M.D., Ph.D. and Eduardo Leiderman, M.D.

Elaine Elisabetsky - Traditional Medical Systems as Sources of New Psychoactive Drugs: the Case of the Putative Antipsychotic Alstonine
Ana Silveria - Low Recognition of Refractory Schizophrenia in The Public Mental Health System in São Paulo – Brazil
Eliza Barreto - A Preliminary Controlled trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Clozapine Resistant Schizophrenia
Eduardo Leiderman
- Stigmatizing Bbeliefs and Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals Towards People with Schizophrenia
Gisele Huf - TREC-SAVE*: A Randomised Trial Comparing Mechanical Restraints with Use of Seclusion for Aggressive Patients in Psychiatric Hospitals. Trial registration: ISRCTN 4945427
Andre Brunoni - Cardiovascular risk factors in patients with first-episode psychosis: a population-based study in São Paulo, Brazil.

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Oral Session VI- Cognition/Psychopathology
Auditório Verde Chairs: Salvador Guinjoan, M.D., Ph.D. and eduardo Mizraji, M.D.

Salvador Guinjoan - Emotion Processing and Social Cognition in Patients with Schizophrenia and Unaffected First Degree Relatives
Elisa Dias - Visual Search Impairments in Schizophrenia
Vanessa Ota - UFD1L Variants and Cognitive Performance
Eduardo Martinho - BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism, Cognition and Clinical Symptomatology in a Brazilian Population-based Sample of Individuals with First Episode Psychosis.
Rogerio Panizzutti - Increased Serum Levels of D-serine Correlate with Cognitive Gains Induced by Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia.
Eduardo Mizraji - Neurocomputational Models as an Exploratory Environment for Schizophrenia Research

Sunday, 7 August 2011
8:30 am - 10:30 am

Plenary Session III – Brain imaging / Neurodevelopmental abormalities    
René Kahn- Factors determining brain tissue loss in schizophrenia
Geraldo Busatto- Neuroimaging findings in schizophrenia: time for translation into clinical practice?
Jorge Ospina-Duque- Neurodevelopmental genes, neuropsychological endophenotyes and clinical dimensions of schizophrenia
Questions and answers

10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Plenary Session IV– Treatment
Veronica Larach-Walters- Tardive Dyskesia: No Longer an Issue in the Treatment of Schizophrenia?
Trino Baptista- Antipsychotic treatment and metabolic syndrome
Questions and answers

12:15 pm - 1:00pm Closing Keynote Lecture
John Kane- Pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia: present and future
1:00pm Closing Remarks