title: Workshop on schizophrenia.
abstract: On November 29-30, 1995, the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine brought together experts in schizophrenia and specialists in other areas of the biological sciences in a workshop aimed at promoting the application of the latest biological information to this clinical problem. The workshop paid particular attention to evidence of pathology in the brains of people with schizophrenia, and to the possibility that this reflects an abnormality in brain development that eventually leads to the appearance of symptoms. The participants were impressed with the complexity of the problem, and felt that multiple approaches would be required to understand this disease. They recommended that a major focus should be on the search for predisposing genes, but that there should be parallel research in many other areas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0984, USA.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Barondes
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Alberts
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Andreasen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bargmann
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Benes
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goldman-Rakic
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gottesman
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Heinemann
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kirschner
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raff
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roses
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rubenstein
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Snyder
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Watson
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Weinberger
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Yolken
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004493:Education; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D009307:National Academy of Sciences, U.S.; D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents / Q000378:metabolism; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D014427:Twins / Q000235:genetics; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D018377:Neurotransmitter Agents