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 Press Release 
For immediate release on “Healing Children’s Minds” The Friday, October 19th session, “Healing Children’s Minds: Childhood and Adolescent Disorders,” featured updates on efforts to understand and treat such childhood and adolescent disorders as early-onset schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder and ADHD (attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder) and autism. Robert M. A. Hirschfeld, M.D., chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and a member of NARSAD’s Scientific Council, organized the two-day symposium and moderated the Friday session. On Saturday, October 20th, in a session called “New Directions in Research,” top NARSAD Young Investigators discussed novel areas of research, such as the relation between stress and illness; a new treatment for bipolar II disorder; genetic insights about schizophrenia and epilepsy; and study of a brain malfunction that may play an important role in both bipolar disorder and Alzheimer’s disease. Herbert Pardes, M.D., president of NARSAD’s Scientific Council and president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, moderated the session. Jack D. Barchas, M.D., chair of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a member of NARSAD’s Scientific Council, provided commentary for each presentation. A summary of the two days of symposium presentations will appear in the next issue of Fall 2007 issue of NARSAD’s Research Newsletter. The symposium presenters and their topics, included: Friday, October 19th “Healing Children’s Minds: Childhood and Adolescent Disorders” Karen D. Wagner, M.D., Ph.D. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston “Key Insights About Depression and Bipolar Disorder” Daniel Pine, M.D. National Institute of Mental Health “What Research Teaches Us About Childhood Anxiety” B. J. Casey, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medical College “New Findings on the Causes and Treatment of ADHD” Judith Rapoport, M.D. National Institute of Mental Health “Research Update on Childhood Schizophrenia” Ami Klin, Ph.D. Yale Child Study Center/Yale University “Screening for Autism in First Months of Life” Saturday, October 20th “New Directions in Psychiatric Research” Elisabeth Binder, M.D., Ph.D. Emory University/Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry “Childhood Trauma and Stress-Related Illness” Carole Weaver, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego “Neural Communication Malfunction and Its Link to Bipolar Disorder and Alzheimer’s Disease” Holly A. Swartz, M.D. Western Psychiatric Institute/University of Pittsburgh “A Novel Psychiatric Treatment for Bipolar II Disorder” Kameel M. Karkar, M.D. University of California, San Francisco “Gene Mutations, Abnormal Brain Development, and the Onset of Schizophrenia and Epilepsy” Daphne J. Holt, M.D., Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University “Causes and Early Identification of Psychosis” |
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