Date: November 26-27, 2009
Venue: Auditorium 101A, Medical Faculty, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Organisers: Oulu Psychiatric Epidemiology Society (OPES), Graduate School of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, and Oulu University Hospital

Programme:
 

Thursday, 26.11.2009

9.00-9.15 Coffee
9.15-9.30 Opening of the conference
9.30-10.15 European epidemiological cohort studies
Professor Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland; Imperial College London, United Kingdom
10.15-11.00 Studies on psychosis prodrome – Concepts in clinical practice and epidemiology. Professor Peter Jones, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
11.00-12.30 Poster session and lunch
12.30-13.15 Genome-wide analyses of psychiatric disorders
Adjunct Professor Tiina Paunio, National Institute for Health and Welfare,
Helsinki, Finland
13.15-14.00 New possibilities of register studies in psychiatry in Finland
Professor Mika Gissler, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden
14.00-14.15 Coffee
14.15-15.00 Psychiatric follow-up of the school massacres in Jokela and Kauhajoki
Professor Mauri Marttunen, National Institute for Health and Welfare,
Helsinki, Finland

Friday, 27.11.2009

9.30-9.45 Coffee
9.45-10.30 Differential epidemiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Professor Robin Murray, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
10.30-11.15 Epidemiology of mental disorders in Finland: The Health 2000 study
Adjunct Professor Jaana Suvisaari, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
11.15-12.45 Poster session and lunch
12.45-13.30 What can epidemiology of depression and brain imaging learn from each other? Professor Hasse Karlsson, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
13.30-14.15 The cognitive phenotype and functional neurobiology of autism, ADHD and schizophrenia: Overlaps and differences
Professor Sven Bölte, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
14.15-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.15 MRI studies in psychiatry – Will psychiatry be neurology some day?
Senior Clinical Research Associate Graham Murray, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
15.15-15.30 Closing of the conference
 

More information and registration: www.opes.fi/conference-2009/