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The Sixth International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (ICOSR) took place in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 12-16, 1997, where over 1,000 scientists presented and listened to the latest developments in the search for the cause and treatment of schizophrenia. The ICOSR is sponsored by Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, and the William K. Warren Foundation. The National Institute of Mental Health and several pharmaceutical companies contributed generously to the meeting. The ICOSR is co-organized by Dr. Carol A. Tamminga, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland at Baltimore, and Dr. S. Charles Schulz, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The William K. Warren Research Award is given to a senior investigator, who has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of schizophrenia. The fifth William K. Warren Research Award was presented to Dr. Philip S. Holzman in recognition of his contributions to the identification of eye-tracking abnormalities as a potential phenotypic marker of the illness and also in recognition of his work as a lifelong mentor for schizophrenia researchers. The ICOSR Young Investigator Awards are presented to junior investigators who have demonstrated the potential to make significant contributions to research on schizophrenia. These awards promote scientific development by enabling these young researchers to attend the meeting. There were 30 Young Investigator Award winners. The ICOSR meeting is organized into four sessions: (1) a morning plenary session; (2) a plenary lecture; (3) a poster session; and (4) concurrent afternoon oral sessions. The morning plenary sessions are comprised of a set of 30-minute lectures, which provide an overview of a particular topic area relevant to schizophrenia research. The plenary lecture is an invited lecture on a basic topic related to current research efforts in schizophrenia. The poster sessions provide a forum for the presentation of prepublication reports of basic and clinical science projects. The afternoon sessions are a collection of approximately 10 focused presentations on current research projects related to a specific topic area. The purpose of this report is to provide an account of the proceedings from the plenary and afternoon oral sessions.
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PMID:Schizophrenia research: a biennium of progress. Proceedings from the Sixth International Congress on Schizophrenia Research. Colorado Springs, CO, April 12-16, 1997. 985 85

Seymour S. Kety was a physician and neuroscientist of great distinction. His impact on both the dynamics and imaging of cerebral blood flow and metabolism, as well as the nature-nurture controversy about the etiology of schizophrenia, led to his receiving the Lasker Award in 1999. He died at the age of 84 in the year 2000, leaving medical research, and psychiatric genetics in particular, a bountiful legacy of rich science, thoughtful critiques and prophesies about hypotheses from the past and well into the future. Reviewed in this paper is a tribute to his work as presented during the VIIIth World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics in Versailles, France, August 2000.
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PMID:Seymour S. Kety MD: the man and his accomplishments. Summary of a symposium in his honor at the VIIIth World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, France, 30 August 2000. 1132 39

The authors describe the arrival and treatment of 164 severe chronic psychiatric patients who were displaced from the Serbian army-controlled Jakes psychiatric hospital and off-loaded on the afternoon of 28th of May, 1992 at the gates of the Psychiatry Clinic in Tuzla. Through analysis of their incomplete medical records, which arrived with the patients in Tuzla, and analysis of their activities during and after the war, they found that 83 of the patients (50%) were males and 147 (89.6%) were admitted to the Psychiatry Clinic in Tuzla. Of the patients, 86 (58.5%) were found to be Serbs. The majority of them were incapable of independent living and required ongoing medical and social care. They were from all regions of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 81.6% had schizophrenia and 70 (47.6%) were over 50 years of age. For its humanitarian work, its contribution to peace and for the maintenance of the multi-ethnic Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Psychiatry Clinic in Tuzla received the Golden Award for Peace from the International Legion of Humanists in May 1998.
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PMID:Psychiatry in a battle zone. 1966 85

In Japan, the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act (MTSA) has been in effect since 2005 as a new system for treating mentally disordered offenders. This system was anticipated to aim at treating schizophrenia, while preparing no treatment programs for Substance use disorder (SUD). However, unexpectedly 30% of the inpatients, who a court judged to be treated in this system, have co-occurring SUD in addition to mental disorders. This is the reason why we have provided the inpatients under the MTSA with the treatment program for SUD (TPSUD). The purpose of the present study is to evaluate efficacies of the TPSUD provided in the MTS Award of the Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry. Subjects were the 15 inpatients admitting to this ward, who participated in had the TPSUD due to co-occurrence of SUD. A self-reporting questionnaire, which consisted of the Self-Efficacy Scale for Drug Dependence (SESDD), and Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES), and some clinical information, was administered before and after the program. Consequently, the subscale score of the SOCRATES, "recognition," was significantly elevated after the TPSUD in alcohol related problems, while the subscale score of the SESDD, "global change of self-efficacy for drug dependence," was significantly elevated in drug-related problems. Additionally, either rate of the subjects who started to the anti-alcohol drugs or who manifested to participate in self-help groups for SUD was also significantly elevated. Our findings suggest that the TPSUD may be effective to SUD which co-occur in mentally disordered offenders, and that this program may involve some clinical implication in forensic psychiatry practices under the MTSA.
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PMID:[Efficacy of the treatment program for substance use disorder under the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act in Japan]. 2122 43

Presents Trevor W. Robbins, the 2011 winner of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions."For distinguished theoretical and empirical contributions to basic research in experimental psychology and neuroscience. Trevor W. Robbins has made innovative and landmark contributions to understanding monoaminergic and glutamatergic regulation of cortico-striatal-limbic function and its involvement in psychological processes and pathological states such as addiction, depression, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. His pioneering accomplishments have included the development of methodologies for parallel sophisticated behavioral assessments in humans, rodents, and monkeys combined with psychopharmacological and imaging studies across species. His vigor and dedication to research, exemplary leadership, scholarship, and stellar productivity have advanced our knowledge of brain function and inspired several generations of cognitive neuroscientists." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).
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PMID:Trevor W. Robbins: Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions. 2208 79

Paul Greengard was born in New York City in 1925. After completing high school, he served three years in the US Navy during World War II and then completed his bachelor's degree at Hamilton College where he majored in physics and mathematics. He obtained a PhD in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University in 1953 and pursued postdoctoral training with Wilhelm Feldberg at the National Institute for Medical Research in England. After eight years as head of biochemistry at Geigy, and sabbaticals at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Vanderbilt University, he joined the Yale University faculty as a full professor of pharmacology in 1968. While he was at Yale, Greengard's laboratory performed groundbreaking research, which demonstrated a role for cyclic nucleotides, protein kinases and protein phosphatases, and their protein substrates in the regulation of synaptic transmission. In 1983, Greengard moved to The Rockefeller University, where he has since served as the Vincent Astor Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. Greengard's paradigm-shifting research has continued at Rockefeller and has informed our understanding and possible treatment of a host of brain disorders, including schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and depression. He is the author of more than 950 research articles and reviews. Greengard has received numerous awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000, the Metropolitan Life Foundation Award for Medical Research, The National Academy of Sciences Award in Neuroscience, the Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience for the Society for Neuroscience, and the Karolinska Institutet's Bicentennial Gold Medal. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The following interview was conducted on May 29, 2012.
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PMID:A conversation with Paul Greengard. Interview by Eric J Nestler. 2329 5

This article memorializes Kurt Salzinger (1929-2018). Salzinger's main focus of research was schizophrenic speech and its functional characteristics. Collaborating with several colleagues, most notably Stephanie Portnoy (nee Pisoni) and Richard S. Feldman, he documented verbal conditioning without awareness through ingenious experiments in the clinic waiting room, finding that patients with schizophrenia differed from normal controls only in their rates of extinction. They then found that self-referencing statements not only were susceptible to subtle reinforcers, but also that speed of such conditioning predicted the duration of hospitalization. Addressing more generally, they found evidence for an "immediacy hypothesis," whereby individuals with schizophrenia reacted to an extremely limited range of immediate events, including their own utterances. Among the acknowledgments of the quality of his research were an NSF Award for Sustained Superior Performance in 1981 and "The Most Meritorious Article in 1994" award by the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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PMID:Kurt Salzinger (1929-2018). 3154 45