Biological Psychiatry Congress 2015

List of Abstract Titles and authors:

1. Psychosis: A matter of mental effort?

M Borg, Y Y van der Zee, J H Hsieh, H Temmingh, D J Stein, F M Howells

2.In search of an affordable, effective post-discharge intervention: A randomised control trial assessing the influence of a telephone-based intervention on readmissions for patients with severe mental illness in a developing country

U A Botha, L Koen, M Mazinu, E Jordaan, D J H Niehaus

3. The effect of early abstinence from long-term methamphetamine use on brain metabolism using 1H-magnetic resonance spectro-scopy (1H-MRS)

A Burger, S Brooks, D J Stein, F M Howells

4. The effect of in utero exposure to methamphetamine on brain metabolism in childhood using 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS)

A Burger, A Roos, M Kwiatkowski, D J Stein, K A Donald, F M Howells

5. A prospective study of clinical, biological and functional aspects of outcome in first-episode psychosis: The EONKCS Study

B Chiliza, L Asmal, R Emsley

6. Stimulants as cognitive enhancers - perceptions v. evidence in a very real world

H M Clark

7. Pharmacogenomics in antipsychotic drugs

Ilse du Plessis

8. Serotonin in anxiety disorders and beyond

Ilse du Plessis

9. HIV infection results in ventral-striatal reward system hypo-activation during cue processing

S du Plessis, M Vink, J A Joska, E Koutsilieri, A Bagadia, D J Stein, R Emsley

10. Disease progression in schizophrenia: Is the illness or the treatment to blame?

R Emsley, M J Sian

11. Serotonin transporter variants play a role in anxiety sensitivity in South African adolescents

S M J Hemmings, L I Martin, L van der Merwe, R Benecke, K Domschke, S Seedat

12. Iron deficiency in two children diagnosed with multiple sclerosis: Report on whole exom sequencing

S Janse van Rensburg, R van Toorn, J F Schoeman, A Peeters, L R Fisher, K Moremi, M J Kotze

13. Benzodiazepines: Practical pharmacokinetics

P Joubert

14. What to consider when prescribing psychotropic medications

G Lippi

15. Current prescribing practices for obsessive-compulsive disorder in South Africa: Controversies and consensus

C Lochner, L Taljaard, D J Stein

16. Correlates of emotional and behavioural problems in children with preinatally acquired HIV in Cape Town, South Africa

K-A Louw, N Phillips, JIpser, J Hoare

17. The role of non-coding RNAs in fear extinction

S Malan-Muller, L Fairbairn, W M U Daniels, M J S Dashti, E J Oakleley, M Altorfer, J Harvey, S Seedat, J Gamieldien, S M J Hemmings

18. An analysis of the management og HIV-mental illness comorbidity at the psychiatric unit of the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital

M L Maodi, S T Rataemane, T Kyaw

19. The identification of novel genes in anxiety disorders: A gene X environment correlation and interaction study

N W McGregor, J Dimatelis, S M J Hemmings, C J Kinnear, D J Stein, V Russel, C Lochner

20. Collaborations between conventional medicine and traditional healers: Obstacles and possibilities

G Nortje, S Seedat, O Gureje

21. Thought disorder and form perception: Relationships with symptoms and cognitive function in first-episode schizophrenia

M R Olivier, R Emsley

22. Investigating the functional significance of genome-wide variants associated with antipsychotic treatment response

E Ovenden, B Drogemoller, L van der Merwe, R Emsley, L Warnich

23. The moral and bioethical determinants of "futility" in psychiatry

W P Pienaar

24. Single voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) and volumetry of the amylgdala in social anxiety disorder in the context of early developmental trauma

D Rosenstein, A T Hess, J Zwart, F Ahmed-Leitao, E Meintjies, S Seedat

25. Schizoaffective disorder in an acute psychiatric unit: Profile of users and agreement with Operational Criteria (OPCRIT)

R R Singh, U Subramaney

26. The right to privacy and confidentiality: The ethics of expert diagnosis in the public media and the Oscar Pistorius trial

C Smith

27. A birth cohort study in South Africa: A psychiatric perspective

D J Stein

28. 'Womb Raiders': Women referred for observation in terms of the Criminal Procedures Act (CPA) charged with fetal abduction and murder

U Subramaney

29. Psycho-pharmacology of sleep wake disorders: An update

R Sykes

30. Refugee post-settlement in South Africa: Role of adjustment challenges and family in mental health outcomes

L Thela, A Tomita, V Maharaj, M Mhlongo, K Jonathan

31. Dstinguishing ADHD symptoms in psychotic disorders: A new insight in the adult ADHD questionnaire

Y van der Zee, M Borg, J H Hsieh, H Temmingh, D J Stein, F M Howells

32. Oscar Pistorius ethical dilemmas in a trial by media: Does this include psychiatric evaluation by media?

M Vorster

33. Genetic investigation of apetite aggression in South African former young offenders: The involvement of serotonin transporter gene

K Xulu, J Somer, M Hinsberger, R Weierstall, T Elbert, S Seedat, S Hemmings

34. Effects of HIV and childhood trauma on brain morphemtry and neurocognitive function

G Spies, F Ahmed-Leitao, C Fennema-Notestine, M Cherner, S Seedat

35. Measuring intentional behaviour normative data of a newly developed motor task battery

S Bakelaar, J Blampain, S Seedat, J van Hoof, Y Delevoye-Turrel

36. Resilience in social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder in the context of childhood trauma

M Bship, S Bakelaar, D Rosenstein, S Seedat

37. The ethical dilemma of seclusion practices in psychiatry

G Chiba, U Subramaney

38. Physical activity and neurological soft signs in patients with schizophrenia

O Esan, C Osunbote, I Oladele, S Fakunle, C Ehindero

39. A retrospective study of completed suicides in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Area from 2008 to 2013 - preliminary results

C Grobler, J Strumpher, R Jacobs

40. Serotonin transporter variants play a role in anxiety sensitivity in South African adolescents

S M J Hemmings, L I Martin, L van der Merwe, R Benecke, K Domschke, S Seedat

41. Investigation of variants within antipsychotic candidate pharmacogenes associated with treatment outcome

F Higgins, B Drogmoller, G Wright, L van der Merwe, N McGregor, B Chiliza, L Asmal, L Koen, D Niehaus, R Emsley, L Warnich

42. Effects of diet, smoking and alcohol consumption on disability (EDSS) in people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

S Janse van Rensburg, W Davis, D Geiger, F J Cronje, L Whati, M Kidd, M J Kotze

43. The clinical utility of neuroimaging in an acute adolescnet psychiatric inpatient population