SANS symposium held by the Biological Psychiatry Congress: Trends & Treatments: The Challenging Landscape
Dates Biological Psychiatry Congress: 24th – 27th September, 2015
Date SANS symposium: 26th September, 2015
Venue: Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West, Western Cape
Biological Psychiatry – Abstracts
SANS National Travel Award Winner(s):
Asisipo Mohamed (UKZN): The changes of pro-inflammatory cytokines in a prenatally stressed febrile seizure animal model & whether Rhus-chirindensis may attenuate these changes
SANS Regional Travel Award Winner(s):
Mr Lyndon Zass (SU): Investigating COMT variants in anxiety sensitivity in South African adolescents
Mr Khethelo Xulu (SU): Genetic investigation of appetitive aggression in South African former young offenders: the involvement of serotonin transporter
Ms Patricia Swart (UCT): The brain and behaviour in a third trimester equivalent animal model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Ms Faatiemah Higgins (SU): Investigation of Variants within Antipsychotic Candidate Pharmacogenes Associated with Treatment Outcome
Ms Kelebogile Moremi (SU): Influence of TMPRSS6 A736V and HFE C282Y on serum iron parameters and age of onset in patients with multiple sclerosis
Dr Hilmar Luckhoff (SU): Clinical relevance of FTO rs9939609 as a determinant of cardio-metabolic risk in South African patients with major depressive disorder
ORAL PRESENTATION WINNERS (Biological Psychiatry Prize)
Joint winners
Ms Antoinette Burger (UCT): The effect of Early Abstinence from Long-Term Methamphetamine Use on Brain Metabolism Using 1H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H-MRS)
Dr Stefanie Malan-Muller (SU): The Role Of Non-Coding RNAS in fear extinction
POSTER PRESENTION WINNER (Paula Heron Prize)
Mr Lyndon Zass (SU): Investigating COMT variants in anxiety sensitivity in South African adolescents
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