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First Results from Genome Scan of Schizophrenia in Arab Family Sample (See:Research Projects- Psychiatric Genetics: Schizophrenia)

Output from automated genotyping of the first panel of microsatellite markers on 64 of the 250 subjects in the genome scan.

Abstracts at Scientific Meetings

XXIInd CINP Congress, Brussels, July 2000

CONCORDANCE OF AGE AT ONSET AND OTHER CORE CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN SIBLINGS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOSIS.
Yakir A, Kanyas K, Karni O, Turetsky N, Lerer B.
Biological Psychiatry Unit, Hadassah -Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
XXIInd CINP Congress, Brussels, July 2000

MOLECULAR GENETICS OF TARDIVE DYSKINESIA
Lerer B, Segman RH, Heresco-Levy U, Finkel B, Yakir A, Dorevich A, Shlaffman M, Lerner A, Greenberg D.
Biological Psychiatry Unit, Hadassah -Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
XXIInd CINP Congress, Brussels, July 2000

EFFECTS OF CHRONIC ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND ELECTROCONVULSIVE SHOCK ON SEROTONERGIC NEUROTRANSMISSION IN THE RAT HYPOTHALAMUS: MICRODIALYSIS STUDIES IN VIVO
Eliyahu Dremencov, Eitan Gur, Michael E. Newman, Bernard Lerer
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
XXIInd CINP Congress, Brussels, July 2000

EFFECTS OF CHRONIC ANTIDEPRESSANTS AND ELECTROCONVULSIVE SHOCK ON SEROTONERGIC NEUROTRANSMISSION IN THE RAT HIPPOCAMPUS: MICRODIALYSIS STUDIES IN VIVO
Eliyahu Dremencov, Eitan Gur, Michael E. Newman, Bernard Lerer
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
XXIInd CINP Congress, Brussels, July 2000

Second International Congress on Hormones, Brain and Neuropsychopharmacology, Rhodes, July 2000

EFFECTS OF ECS ON 5-HT-1A RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY IN HYPOTHALAMUS: IN VIVO STUDIES.
Lerer, Bernard; Shapira, Baruch; Gur, Eitan; Gelfin, Yevgenia; Newman, Michael E
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Ein Karem,, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Second International Congress on Hormones, Brain and Neuropsychopharmacology, Rhodes, July 2000

ALGORITHM BASED TREATMENT OF UNIPOLAR MAJOR DEPRESSION IN OUTPATIENTS: ROLE OF TRIIODOTHYRONINE
Agid, O, Lerer, B.
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Ein Karem,, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Second International Congress on Hormones, Brain and Neuropsychopharmacology, Rhodes, July 2000

World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, August 2000

VARIABILITY OF 5-HT2C RECEPTOR CYS23SER POLYMORPHISM IN EUROPEAN POPULATIONS AND VULNERABILITY TO AFFECTIVE DISORDER
Bernard Lerer1*, Julien Mendlewicz2 , R. Adolfsson3, D. Blackwood4, R. Kaneva5, F. Macciardi6, L. Oruc7, G.N. Papadimitriou8, P. Propping, R.H. Segman1, C. Van Broeckhoven10
1Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, 2Department of Psychiatry, Erasme Hospital, Free University, Brussels, Belgium, 3Umea, 4Edinburg, 5Sofia, 6Milan, 7Zaghreb, 8Athens, 9Bonn, 10Antwerp. World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, August 2000

ADDITIVE CONTRIBUTION OF DRD3gly AND HT2CRser ALLELES TO SUSCEPTIBILITY TO TARDIVE DYSKINESIA IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
Ronnen H. Segman*, Uriel Heresco Levy, Boris Finkel, David Greenberg, Arturo Lerner, Avi Yakir, Michael Shlaffman, Abe Dorevich, Aida Shelevoy, Bernard Lerer.
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, August 2000

5-HT2A RECEPTOR POLYMORPHISM AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO TARDIVE DYSKINESIA IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA
Ronnen H. Segman, Uriel Heresco Levy, Boris Finkel, David Greenberg, Avi Yakir, Michael Shlaffman, Abe Dorevich, Tanya Goltser, Bernard Lerer*.
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, August 2000

AGE AT ONSET IN SIBLING PAIRS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA AND SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER
Osnat Karni*, Avi Yakir, Kyra Kanyas, Neil Turetsky, Bernard Lerer.
Biological Psychiatry Unit, Hadassah -Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, August 2000

THE MOLECULAR GENETICS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING: DEMOGRAPHIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLEXITIES
Kyra Kanyas*, Ronnen H. Segman, Ofer Agid, Bernard Lerer.
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, August 2000

Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, November 2000

MODULATION OF NERVE TERMINAL 5-HT-1B AUTORECEPTORS BY CHRONIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AND CORTICOSTERONE ADMINISTRATION IN THE RAT: IN VIVO MICRODIALYSIS STUDIES
Michael E. Newman, Eitan Gur, Eliyahu Dremencov, Bernard Lerer
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, November 2000