Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders

Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Dean of Medical Education, Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Germany; Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Health, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Leonard M. Miller Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

1. Psychiatry and neuroscience history; 2. Receptor signaling and the cell biology of synaptic transmission; 3. Human genetics of schizophrenia; 4. Neurological and psychiatric aspects of emotion; 5. Research methods: cognitive neuropsychological methods; 6. Structural imaging in psychiatric disorders; 7. Human functional neuroimaging; 8. Neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in depression; 9. Animal models of psychiatric disorders; 10. Psychiatric epidemiology; 11. Emerging methods in the molecular biology of neuropsychiatric disorders; 12. Clinical psychoneuroimmunology; 13. Psychiatric rating scales; 14. Unipolar depression; 15. Bipolar disorder; 16. The neurobiology and treatment of late-life depression; 17. Seasonal affective disorder; 18. Biological and clinical framework for post-traumatic stress disorder; 19. Generalised anxiety disorder; 20. Panic disorder; 21. Obsessive compulsive disorder; 22. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; 23. Autism and related disorders; 24. Substance abuse disorders; 25. Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia: profile, course and neurobiological determinants; 26. Eating disorders: anorexia and bulimia nervosa; 27. Personality disorders; 28. Psychiatric, non motor aspects of Parkinson’s disease; 29. Stroke; 30. Huntingdon’s disease; 31. Sleep disorders; 32. Depression and cardiovascular disorders; 33. Psychiatric disorders among cancer patients; 34. Chronic fatigue syndrome; 35. Neurocognitive deficits in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection; 36. Gastrointestinal disorders; 37. Role of psychotherapy in the management of psychiatric diseases; 38. Pharmacology and neuroimaging of antidepressant action; 39. Antipsychotic drugs; 40. Anxiolytics; 41. Brain stimulation therapies for neuropsychiatric disease; 42. Chronotherapeutics, light and wake therapy as a class of interventions for affective disorders; 43. Pharmacogenetics of antidepressants and mood stabilisers