Current knowledge in psychiatric epidemiology

Thank you for participating in the conference. There were 123 participants. Nine of them were from abroad (Estonia, Germany, Taiwan, and the UK).

The next conference organised by OPES will be in summer 2012 (Schizophrenia - Epidemiology and  biology).

Venue:  Auditorium 101A, Medical Faculty, Aapistie 5A
            University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Date:    November 26-27, 2009
Organisers: Oulu Psychiatric Epidemiology Society (OPES), Graduate School of Psychiatry, University of Oulu, and Oulu University Hospital
The organising committee: Jouko Miettunen, PhD; Erika Jääskeläinen, MD; Marianne Haapea, MSc; Antti Alaräisänen, MD; Juha Veijola, MD; Jenni Koivukangas, BMed; Anu Luukkonen, BMed; Ina Rissanen, BMed; and Jani Moilanen, BMed.
The conference language is English.
Information on the study credits for the Finnish students: See here
Download information package and programme: here
Poster programme and information for poster presentations: here
Book of Abstracts: here
Press release / Lehdistötiedote (in Finnish): here

 

Conference programme:

(download programme)


First Day

8.45-9.15 Coffee
9.15-9.30
Opening of the conference
Adjunct Professor Jouko Miettunen, Oulu Psychiatric Epidemiology Society (OPES), Oulu, Finland
  Session 1, chair Academy Research Fellow Juha Veijola
9.30-10.15
European epidemiological cohort studies
Professor Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland; Imperial College London, United Kingdom
10.15-11.00
Studies on psychosis prodrome - Concepts in clinical practice and epidemiology
Professor Peter Jones, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
11.00-12.30
Lunch
11.30-12.30
Poster Session 1
  Session 2, chair Adjunct Professor Jouko Miettunen
12.30-13.15
Genome-wide analyses of psychiatric disorders
Adjunct Professor Tiina Paunio, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
13.15-14.00
New possibilities of register studies in psychiatry in Finland
Professor Mika Gissler, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland and Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden
14.00-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.15
Psychiatric follow-up of the school massacres in Jokela and Kauhajoki
Professor Mauri Marttunen, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
18.00-
Conference dinner
Hotel Lasaretti


Second Day

9.15-9.45 Coffee
  Session 3, chair Professor Matti Isohanni
9.45-10.30
Differential epidemiology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Professor Robin Murray, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
10.30-11.15
Epidemiology of mental disorders in Finland: The Health 2000 study
Adjunct Professor Jaana Suvisaari, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
11.15-12.45
Lunch
11.45-12.45 Poster Session 2
  Session 4, chair Adjuct Professor Hanna Ebeling
12.45-13.30
What can epidemiology of depression and brain imaging learn from each other?
Professor Hasse Karlsson, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
13.30-14.15
The cognitive phenotype and functional neurobiology of autism, ADHD and schizophrenia: Overlaps and differences
Professor Sven Bölte, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
14.15-14.45 Coffee
14.45-15.30
MRI studies in psychiatry - Will psychiatry be neurology some day?
Senior Clinical Research Associate Graham Murray, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
15.30-15.45 Closing of the conference