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Institutional Relations and Communication
Programme
Coordinator: Julio Bobes García (Universidad de Oviedo)
V Foro Internacional en Esquizofrenia. On 24 and 25 November 2016 the International Schizophrenia Forum was held at the Ateneo de Madrid, arranged by CIBERSAM. 174 persons attended this edition of the Forum, including twenty-four Spanish and international neuroscience leaders, as well as representatives of patients and relatives.
Some of the guests reported their information in debate form, giving priority to thematic areas in research into psychosis, with the participation of a representative of patients’ groups, relatives, epidemiologists, basic and clinical researchers. There were three plenary lectures, given by guests from Dublin, Rotterdam and Utrecht who spoke on What occurs 15 years before the first psychotic episode? (Mary Cannon); Studies of cohorts, what information can these give that is not answered by other studies? (Henning Tiemeier) and Optimising the treatment of the first episode of schizophrenia (Renè Kahn).
Apart from this, three round tables were held on research into schizophrenia at the CIBER de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), on the white substance and psychosis and the third on biomarkers in psychosis and personalised medicine.
The balance obtained was also highly positive this year, for which reason the Forum continues to become consolidated as one of the annual events of greatest interest for Spanish neuroscientists. The Annual Meeting of CIBERSAM Principal Investigators was held in the evening on Friday 25.
At the end of November there was also the Encuentro entre Investigadores en Salud Mental, Pacientes y Familiares, jointly arranged by the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), the Fundación Española de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental (FEPSM), Mundo Bipolar and the Confederación Salud Mental España.
At this encounter, sponsored by Lundbeck and held at the Escuela Nacional de Sanidad del Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid, an open debate was set up in which CIBERSAM researchers gave an informative explanation on the current situation in mental health research to patients and the people around them, at the same time as taking note of their suggestions for the research to be practical and provide them with real improvements in their quality of life.
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