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  Depression: emerging research and treatment approaches  
  June 20, 2002

Neurology / Neuroscience

 
     
 

Institut Pasteur, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
January 16-17, 2003


Thursday January 16, 2003

GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Myrna M. Weissman (USA): Cross national epidemiology of mood disorders: an update.
David Baldwin (UK): Social and economic costs of depression.

TREATMENT
David J. Nutt (UK): The evolution of antidepressant mechanisms.
Stuart Montgomery (UK): Unmet needs in the treatment of depression.
William Potter (USA): Signal detection in trials of antidepressants.
David Hackett (F): Monoamine theory and the evolution of antidepressant therapy.
Yves Lecrubier (F): The partial response of depressed patients to antidepressants, the role of residual symptology for long term outcome.
Carina Stenfors (S): The search of a rapid onset of action through 5-HT presynaptic receptors.
John P. Feighner (USA): Clinical and preclinical overview of Nemifitide (INN 00835), a novel pentapeptide antidepressant.


Friday January 17, 2003

ANIMAL MODELS
Jean-Luc Moreau (CH): Simulating depression in animals: stress-induced-anhedonia as a case study.

BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS
Pierre Sokoloff (F): Roles of BDNF and dopamine D3 receptors in antidepressant response.
Mickael Trimble (UK): Brain stimulation and the treatment of depression.
Charles B. Nemeroff (USA): Early life trauma and the pathophysiology of depression: preclinical and clinical studies.
Helen S. Mayberg (CDN): In search of depression circuits: novel approaches using functional neuroimaging.

GENETICS AND GENOMICS
Klaus-Peter Lesch (D): The genetics of depression in the postgenomic world.
Philippe Courtet (F): Molecular dissection of the serotonergic pathway in suicidal behaviour.
Julio Licinio (USA): The pharmacogenomics of antidepressant treatment response.
Jim Hagan (UK): New drug targets in depression: genetic and genomic approaches.
 
 
Organized by: Institut Pasteur Euroconferences
Invited Speakers: Scientific Committee: Mike Briley and Julio Licinio
Scientific Director: Jean-Marc Cavaillon

Myrna M. Weissman
David Baldwin
David J. Nutt
Stuart Montgomery
William Potter
David Hackett
Yves Lecrubier
Carina Stenfors
John P. Feighner
Jean-Luc Moreau
Pierre Sokoloff
Mickael Trimble
Charles B. Nemeroff
Helen S. Mayberg
Klaus-Peter Lesch
Philippe Courtet
Julio Licinio
Jim Hagan
 
Deadline for Abstracts: 2002-12-18
 
Registration: Industrial rate : 916 euros VAT excluded
Academic rate : 458 euros VAT excluded
E-mail: euroconf@pasteur.fr
 
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