Meeting report: the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) South America Conference (August 5-7, 2011)

Raffael Massuda; Cristiano Chaves; Clarissa Trzesniak; Joao P Machado-de-Sousa; Marcus V Zanetti; Robin M Murray; Wagner F Gattaz; Geraldo F Busatto

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2012.03.013

Meeting report: the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) South America Conference (August 5-7, 2011)

Schizophr Res. 2012 May;137(1-3):1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2012.03.013. Epub 2012 Mar 27.

Authors

Raffael Massuda¹, Cristiano Chaves, Clarissa Trzesniak, Joao P Machado-de-Sousa, Marcus V Zanetti, Robin M Murray, Wagner F Gattaz, Geraldo F Busatto

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

PMID: 22459672
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2012.03.013

Abstract

On August 5-7, 2011, São Paulo was home to the first regional meeting of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS). Over 400 people from many countries attended the activities and contributed with around 200 submissions for oral and poster presentations. This article summarizes the data presented during the meeting, with an emphasis on the plenary talks and sessions for short oral presentations. For information on the poster presentations, readers are referred to the special issue of Revista de Psiquiatria Clínica (Brazil) dedicated to the conference (available at: http://www.hcnet.usp.br/ipq/revista/vol38/s1/).

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Neuroimaging
Schizophrenia* / diagnosis
Schizophrenia* / epidemiology
Schizophrenia* / genetics
Schizophrenia* / therapy
Societies, Medical
South America