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‘Integrative Neuroscience’ and Psychiatry: Identifying Cognitive, Affective and Brainwave Markers of Psychiatric Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

L Williams*
Affiliation:
The Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital and Discipline of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
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Abstract

Type
Abstracts from ‘Brainwaves’— The Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Meeting 2006, 6–8 December, Sydney, Australia
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 Blackwell Munksgaard

Overview

Multidisciplinary efforts have begun to encourage a freer exchange of information – resulting in a more ‘integrative neuroscience’ across disciplines and theoretical models in psychiatry. This symposium outlines the potential insights into major psychiatric disorders from the first entirely standardized and centralized database, which brings together cognitive, affective, brain function and genetic measures. It contains 5000 healthy subjects (6–100 years) and growing psychiatric groups. With these multimodal and standardized data sets, we have identified objective markers that distinguish each disorder and that predict real-life functional outcomes. In this symposium, we outline markers for first-episode schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression and Alzheimer's dementia.