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Refining Schizophrenia Epidemiology
27 January 2012. In the vast search space of potential environmental contributors to schizophrenia risk, epidemiologists have homed in on a few sectors...
 
Could New Hormone Compete With the Treadmill?
20 January 2012. Although it might not make people buff, a newly identified hormone may trigger some of the benefits of exercise...
 
Hippocampal Memory Markers: From Anatomy to Molecules
20 January 2012. Shrinkage of the hippocampus, which plays a key role in learning and memory, is one potential marker of Alzheimer’s disease...
 
 
 
 
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SZ Bulletin Journal Club: Let The Trials of Cognitive Enhancers Fly?
As Will Carpenter discusses in his introduction to our latest collaboration with Schizophrenia Bulletin, the US Food and Drug Administration challenged researchers to develop clinical trial methodology that would unequivocally show the benefits of any proposed cognitive therapeutics for people with schizophrenia. Two recent papers, available for reading and discussion here at SRF, thanks to the journal and Oxford Press, propose guidelines to achieve this goal.

Do you agree, and if not, what is missing? Please submit your comments.
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Comments - Posted 25 January 2012
Read remarks by Reiji Yoshimura about Kegeles LS et al.
PAPER: Elevated Prefrontal Cortex ?-Aminobutyric Acid and Glutamate-Glutamine Levels in Schizophrenia Measured In Vivo With Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
 
Comments - Posted 25 January 2012
Read remarks by Nitin Gogtay about Arango C et al.
PAPER: Progressive brain changes in children and adolescents with first-episode psychosis.
 
Conferences - Posted 25 January 2012
Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry: 8 June 2012, Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A.
 
Conferences - Posted 25 January 2012
European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS): 6-9 September 2013, Munich, Germany.
 
Jobs - Posted 25 January 2012
Faculty Positions in Psychiatric Genetics: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City.
 
Conferences - Posted 25 January 2012
Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications: 19-20 October 2012, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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