Vol 2, No 1 (2009)

Abstracts from SCNP 50th annual meeting

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SCNP Abstracts

SCNP Meeting ORAL

Why is neuronal plasticity interesting for psychiatrists?
Eero Castren
The role of melatonin in autism spectrum disorders
Jonas Melke
Vasopressin and pair bonding: from voles to man
Lars Westberg
Protein kinase C inhibitor tamoxifen new concept in the treatment of mania
Aysegul Yildiz
Conditioned and sensitized dopamine transmission: environment-dependent plasticity in human brain
Marco Leyton
Neuronal and synaptic plasticity in subregions of rat hippocampus after antidepressant treatment
Fenghua Chen
The possible role of group II metabotropic glutamate receptors for the treatment of schizophrenia
Avraham Weizman, Amir Krivoy, Tsvi Fischel
SCNP Contributions: rating scales.
Per Bech
Naltrexone as treatment for amphetaminism
Johan Franck
Research methods in schizophrenia
William Honer
Atypical antipsychotics in bipolar depression: a new major option?
Willem Nolen
Developmental trajectories of DSM-IV symptom dimensions of ADHD and their associations with psychopathology and genetic factors
Henrik Larsson, Rezin Dilshad, Paul Lichtenstein, Edward Barker
MONOAMINERGIC MODULATION OF EMOTIONAL IMPACT IN THE INFEROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX
Albert Gjedde
Hippocampus and depression. Data from the Danish PET/depression project with 8 years follow-up
Poul Videbech
Origin of inter-individual differences in stress responsivity in human populations
Jens C Pruessner
Seasonal Affective Disorder: An update
Andres Magnusson
Interference Peptides to Probe Addiction
Anthony George phillips
Angiogenesis - a role in the treatment of depression?
Joakim Ekstrand
Animal models and imaging in mood disorders
Doris J. Doudet
Epigenetics of TrkB in Suicide
Carl Ernst

SCNP Meeting POSTERS

Neuropeptide S alters depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in the Flinders Sensitive Line rats, a genetic animal model of depression
Gregers Wegener, Kirsten Keller, Beate Christine Finger, David Slattery, Inga D Neumann, Aleksander A Mathé
Cross-Sensitization Between Stimulants and Stress in Humans: Behavioral and Neurochemical Correlates
Linda Booij, Krzysztof Welfeld, Marco Leyton, Alain Dagher, Isabelle Boileau, Igor Sibon, Jens C Pruessner, Kevin F Casey, Chawki Benkelfat
Neopterin and dementia in Down syndrome
Willem M.A. Verhoeven, Tonnie M.W. Coppus, Durk Fekkes, Siegfried Tuinier, Cock Van Duijn
Comparative Proteomics in the Chronic Mild Stress Model of Depression - a search for biomarkers of depression in hippocampal subregions
christina fuhr bisgaard, jan j enghild, ove wiborg
Medial prefrontal GABA in generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD)
Rachel Grills, Daniel Li, Changho Choi, Peter Seres, Paramjit Bhardwaj, Jeff Armstrong, Nick Coupland
Genetic, somatic and psychological characteristics of adult patients with Noonan syndrome
Willem M.A. Verhoeven, Ellen Wingbermühle, Jos I.M. Egger, Ineke Van der Burgt, Siegfried Tuinier
Requirement of central ghrelin signaling for alcohol reward.
Elisabet Jerlhag
Functional connectivity of right insula during self-face processing
Rajamannar Ramasubbu, Bradley Goodyear, Ismael Gaxiola, Svetlana Masalovich, Helen Mayberg
Genetic variability within the S100B gene influences personality traits in both sexes
Petra Suchankova
Adjunctive α2 adrenoceptor blockade enhances the antipsychotic-like effect of risperidone and facilitates cortical dopaminergic and glutamatergic, NMDA receptor-mediated transmission.
Monica M Marcus, Charlotte Wiker, Olivia Frånberg, Åsa Konradsson-Geuken, Xavier Langlois, Kent Jardemark, Torgny H Svensson
Cytokines in the cerebrospinal fluid of suicide attempters
Daniel Lindqvist, Shorena Janelidze, Peter Hagell, Sophie Erhardt, Martin Samuelsson, Lennart Minthon, Oskar Hansson, Maria Björkqvist, Lil Träskman-Bendz, Lena Brundin
Second-by-second measurement of nicotine-evoked glutamate release in the prefrontal cortex : Relevance to schizophrenia
Asa K Konradsson-Geuken
Regulation of BDNF and VEGF in the Flinders rats
Betina Elfving, Pia Plougmann, Gregers Wegener
Pimavanserin - a potential first line therapy for Parkinson's disease psychosis
Uli Hacksell, Krista McFarland, Hilde Williams, Doug Bonhaus, Roger Mills
Functional connectivity of inferior parietal mirror neurons during self-face processing
Rajamannar Ramasubbu, Bradley Goodyear, Ismael Gaxiola, Svetlana Masalovich, Helen Mayberg
Serotonin transporter oligomerization documented in RN46A cells and neurons by sensitized acceptor emission FRET and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
Anja Winther Fjorback
Risk alleles of the serotonin transporter polymorphism predict small hippocampal volumes in major depression
Jane A. Foster, Kaan Yucel, Edith Kolozsi, Robyn N MacKenzie, Glenda MacQueen
Deuterium-L-DOPA - a novel strategy to improve treatment of Parkinson´s disease
Torun Malmlöf, Daniella Rylander, Torgny H Svensson, Angela M Cenci, Björn Schilström
Regulation of BDNF after treatment with electroconvulsive seizures in the Flinders rats
Pia Høgh Plougmann, Gregers Wegener, Betina Elfving
Newly-elucidated bioactive peptides regulate corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) pathways in the brain: the role of the teneurin C-terminal associated peptides (TCAPs)
Laura Alexandra Tan
Acute effects of antipsychotic drugs on metabolic indices in a rodent model
Alasdair Barr, Heidi Boyda, Lurdes Tse, Daniel Wong, Ric Procyshyn
Reboxetine enhances the antipsychotic-like effect of olanzapine and facilitates cortical dopaminergic and NMDA receptor-mediated transmission in analogy with clozapine.
Carl Björkholm, Anna Malmerfelt, Monica M Marcus, Kent Jardemark, Torgny H Svensson
A mathematical model of the circadian gene expression of clock genes in NIH-3T3 mouse fibroblasts
Teresa Maria Osland
Cortisol and symptoms in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
Nils Eiel Steen, Jens P. Berg, Steinar Lorentzen, Ole A. Andreassen
Serotoninergic modulation of exogenous L-DOPA-derived dopamine release in rats with unilateral 6-OHDA lesions revealed with microPET imaging
Adjmal Nahimi, Mette Høltzermann, Mette Simonsen, Steen Jacobsen, Arne Møller, Gregers Wegener, Albert Gjedde, Doris Doudet
Structural MRI and cognitive brain measures in methamphetamine dependence
Malcolm S. Reid, Jay Nierenberg
Effects of asenapine on prefrontal NMDA receptor-mediated transmission. Involvement of dopamine D1 receptors
Kent Jardemark, Monica M. Marcus, Mohammed Shahid, Torgny H. Svensson
Tricyclic antidepressant binding to the human serotonin transporter (hSERT)
Steffen Sinning
A Common MECP2 Haplotype Associates With Reduced Brain Size and Cortical Area in Humans
Ole A Andreassen, Alexander H Joyner, Srdjan Djurovic
Neurotrophic proteins in schizophrenia
Willem Verhoeven, Noortje Van de Kerkhof, Durk Fekkes, Frank Van der Heijden
Dopamine Transporter Knock-In Mice with a Disrupted PDZ-Protein Binding Motif Display Hyperactivity and Could be Insensitive to Amphetamine
Mattias Rickhag, Gunnar Sørensen, Kristine Nørgaard-Strandfelt, Bjørn Andresen, Ernst-Martin Füchtbauer, Jesus Gomeza, Gitta Wörtwein, David Woldbye, Ulrik Gether
The molecular signature of anxiety-like behaviour in mice exposed to a postnatal immune challenge
Michelle Sidor
New candidate genes for bipolar disorder: evidence from two Scandinavian association studies
Martin Tesli
The Neuropeptide Y System: a Role in Alcohol Withdrawal Kindling
Janne Damm Olling, Jakob Ulrichsen, Mette Correll, David PD Woldbye
Chronic Imipramine treatment increases the number of hippocampal neurons in a genetic rat depression model
Fenghua Chen, Gregers Wegener, Torsten Meldgaard Madsen, Jens Randel Nyengaard
Isolation-rearing differentially affect behavioural phenotype and the hippocampal cytoskeletal microtubular proteins and synaptic markers in Sprague Dawley and Flinders Sensitive Line rats.
Massimiliano Bianchi, Nataly Ladurelle, Aleksander Mathé, Etienne Baulieu
Contextual negative cues appear to be important for induction of increased state of anxiety in prenatally stressed rats
Sanna Lemming Kjaer, Gregers Wegener, Raben Rosenberg, Karin Sørig Hougaard
Antipsychotic-like effect of the combined treatment with escitalopram and a 5-HT1A antagonist.
Nanna Hovelsø Jensen, Thomas Nicolaj Sager, Arne Mørk
Phosphodiesterase 10A inhibition modulates the sensitivity of the mesolimbic dopaminergic system to D -amphetamine: involvement of the D1-regulated feedback control of midbrain dopamine neurons.
Florence Sotty, Liliana Montezinho, Björn Steiniger-Brach, Jacob Nielsen
Matrix metalloproteinases in the cerebrospinal fluid of suicide attempters
Shorena Janelidze, Lil Träskman-Bendz, Lil Träskman-Bendz, Lena Brundin, Lena Brundin
Mechanisms mediating rare copy number variation: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders
Andrés Ingason
de novo copy number variations in schizophrenia
Thomas Hansen
Cognitive function after transient forebrain ischemia: Preliminary assessment of reversal by darbepoetin alfa
Michel Louis Samson, George Sverre Robertson
Allostatic Load, Psychiatric Morbidity and Cortisol Responses to Awakening in Midlife Immigrant Women
Claudio N Soares, Susan Chang, Avita Sooknanan, Catherine Lord, Miki Peer, Meir Steiner
Similar immune profile in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia:selective increase in soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 and von Willebrand factor
Sigrun Hope
Activation of nitric oxide synthase may mediate reversal of cognitive deficits after transient forebrain ischemia produced by darbepoetin alfa
Michel Louis Samson, George Sverre Robertson
Whole genome association study of quantitative psychosis proneness scales in the general population
Jesper Ekelund, Dirk Lichtermann, Jouko Miettunen, Juha Veijola, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Nelson Freimer, Leena Peltonen
Medial orbitofrontal cortex dysfunction in alcohol dependence assessed by using a dextroamphetamine probe and functional magnetic resonance imaging
Xavier Balducci, Taylor Schmitz, Beth Sproule, Eve De Rosa, Nathan Herrmann, Simon Graham, Usoa Busto, Claudio Naranjo
Awakening thresholds in sleepwalkers and controls: Effects of experimental auditory stimuli and sleep deprivation
Mathieu Pilon
Stress-Induced Dopamine Release in mPFC: An 18F-Fallypride / PET Study in Healthy Volunteers
Atsuko Nagano, Alain Dagher, Linda Booij, Krzysztof Welfeld, Paul Gravel, Kevin Casey, Marco Leyton, Jens Pruessner, Chawki Benkelfat
Catalepsy is Attenuated in Mutant Mice Lacking M4 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors in D1 Dopamine Receptor-Expressing Cells
Ditte Dencker, Jongrey Jeon, David P. D. Woldbye, Gitta Wörtwein, Thomas Sager, Arne Mørk, G Schütz, C Li, C Deng, Y Cui, Jürgen Wess, Anders Fink-Jensen
Neuropeptide Y Y5 receptor antagonism attenuates addictive effects of cocaine
Gunnar Sørensen, Anders Fink-Jensen, Gitta Wörtwein, David P.D. Woldbye


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