1st Symposium on the Neurovirology and Neuroimmunology of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

1st

Symposium on the Neurovirology and Neuroimmunology of Schizophrenia and Bipolar

Disorder

1995

Session I:

Presentations From the Stanley Neurovirology of the Johns Hopkins Univeristy

School of Medicine  and Keynote Speaker

Abstract Title

Speaker

Viruses and Psychiatric Disease-Does The Connection Make Sense

Robert H. Yolken

Viral Transcription Factor RNAs Are Differentially Expressed in the Brains

of Individuals With Schizophrenia

Frances Yee

Metabolites of Clozapine Inhibit The Replication of Neurotropic Viruses

Lorraine V. Bando

A

Comparison of Cytokine Transcripts from Selected Brain Areas Between

Individuals with Schizophrenia and Controls

Linda Bobo

Brain Libraries Indicate Differential RNA Expression in Schizophrenia and

Bipolar Disease

Nancy Johnston

Assessment of Genomic Differences Between Liver and Brain of a Schizophrenia

Patient

Naderah Jafari

Infection of Neural Cells With Brains From Individuals With Schizophrenia

Indre Dé

Analysis of Genomic DNA from Patients With Schizophrenia

Yeping Sun

Effects of Viruses on Limbic System Neurons and Neurotransmitters:

Implications for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

Krister Kristensson (Keynote

speaker)

   

Session II: Etiologic

Agents of Psychiatric Diseases – Infection and Immunity

Retroviral

Antibodies in Schizophrenics: Possible Immunomodulation by Psychotropic

Drugs

Darrenn J.

Hart

Maternal

Influenza, Obstetric Complications and Schizophrenia

Padraig

Wright

Mapping of a

Herpes Simplex  Virus Genetic Element Involved in Neurovirulence and

Neuroinvasiveness

Jeng-Yang

Ling

IgM

Antibodies to Eight Common Neurotropic Viruses in the Serum Samples of

Schizophrenic Patients and Controls From South India

V. Ravi
HSV-1 in

Brain: An Environmental Risk Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease

Ruth F.

Itzhaki

Retinoic Acid

Response Element DNA Motifs in Viruses May Affect Retinoid Cascade in

Schizophrenia

Ann B.

Goodman

Relationship

of Anti-Streptococcal and Anti-Neuronal Antibodies in Patients with

Tourette’s Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Daniel M.

Tucker

State

Dependent Immune Disturbances in Schizophrenia

Daniel P. van

Kammen

Prediction of

Relapse from Changes in Cytokine and Antibody Production in Schizophrenia

Rohan Ganguli
Evaluation of

6 Measures of Central Nervous System Immune Activation in CSF of Patients

with Schizophrenia

George R.

Heninger

Acute Phase

Proteins in Affective Illness

Mady

Hornig-Rohan

Enumeration

of CD34+ Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Schizophrenic Individuals

Receiving Clozapine

Henrietta

Kulaga

The Immune

System Alterations in Psychiatric Disorders: The Causes of Appearance and

The Mechanisms of Development

Galina

Kolyaskina

Session III: Biology and

Epidemiology of Borna Disease Virus

Overview of

the Biology of Borna Virus As Applied to Psychiatric Disease

Kathryn

Carbone

Experimental

Borna Disease as a Model for Immune-Mediated Abnormalities in the Brain

Lothar Stitz
Severe

Neurological Symptoms in Mice Infected with Borna Disease Virus

Peter

Staeheli

Quantitative

Correlation of Viral Induced Damage to the Hippocampus and Spatial Learning

and Memory Deficits

Kathryn

Carbone

Prefrontal

Cortex Dysfunction in Rats Infected with Borna Disease Virus

W. Ian Lipkin
Detection,

Isolation, and Molecular Characterization of Human BVD

Daniel

Gonzalez-Dunia

Schizophrenia

and Borna Disease – Clinical Relationships in a Monozygotic Twin Study

Cohort

Royce W.

Waltrip II

Session IV: Infectious

Agents and Psychiatric Disease – Potential Mechanisms

Virus

Infection of Neurons, Disordered CNS Function and Resultant Neuropsychiatric

Disease

Michael B. A.

Oldstone (Keynote Speaker)

The

Immunopathogenesis ov Virus-Induced Myocarditis

Noel R. Rose
Viral Models

for Persistent Neurological Infection

Diane Griffin
Geographic

Correlation of Schizophenia and Ixodes Tick-Borne Viruses

James S.

Brown

Simultaneous

Analysis of Multiple DNA Suspects From Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia

Cassandra L.

Smith

Calcium

Dysregulation in Major Mood Disorders

Martha M.

Coetzee

Viral

Research in Schizophrenia: Phenomenological Considerations

William T.

Carpenter

Session V: Posters

Possible

Suppression of Herpes Simples Virus Infections with Lithium Carbonate

Jay D.

Amsterdam, Greg Maislin

Viral

Etiology and Seasonality of Schizophrenic Births in Barbados

Ram Rao

Malesu

A 7-Year

Prospective Study of Long-Term Lithium Effect on Affective and Labial Herpes

Recurrences in Bipolar Patients

Janusz K.

Rybakowski and Jay D. Amsterdam

Seroepidemiological Studies of Prenatal Viral Infection and Adult

Schizophrenia

Alan S. Brown

Session VI: Animal Models

of Psychiatric Diseases

A New Foamy

Retrovirus From An Orang-Utan With Encephalopathy

Myra O.

McClure

Virus-Induced

Pathology in the Developing Hippocampus May Involve Disruption of Inhibitory

Circuits

Brad D.

Pearce

Altered Brain

FYN Kinase in a Murine AIDS

Yoshitatsu

Sei

Surrogate

Markers’ for Encephalopathy in the SIV-Infected Rhesus Monkey

Lee E. Eiden
Attempts to

Passage a Transmissable Growth Agent From CSF of Schizophrenic Patients to

Neonatal Mice

Janice R.

Stevens

Localization

of Viral Message in Brains of Cats Exposed Postnatally to Bovine Viral

Diarrhea Virus

Susan E.

Bachus

Decresed

Levels of A Lipid in the Brain Frontal Lobe in Patients With Schizophrenia

Subrato

Chatterjee