Biology of schizophrenia and affective disease

Introduction to the 73rd meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. The biology of stress: from periphery to brain. Norepinephrine and serotonin transporters: progress on molecular targets of antidepressants. Excitotoxicity in the development of corticolimbic alterations in schizophrenic brain. Dissolution of cerebral cortical mechanisms in patients with schizophrenia. Linkage and molecular genetics of infantile autism. Epidemiology and behavioral genetics of schizophrenia. Postmortem studies of suicide victims. Schizophrenia: postmortem studies. Brain circuits and brain function: implications for psychiatric diseases. Peptides and affective disorders. Mechanism of action of antidepressants: monoamine hypotheses and beyond. Dopamine and schizophrenia revisited. Pathophysiology of schizophrenia: insights from neuroimaging. Abnormal frontotemporal interactions in patients with schizophrenia. Mechanism of action of atypical antipsychotic drugs: an update. Overview and discussion. Index.