Oxford Psychiatry 2007 Conference
The conference will address some of the critical and complex issues now facing psychiatry and psychiatric research, such as: What is the optimal treatment approach in psychosis? How do antidepressants really work? What is happening in the ageing brain? What causes autism, and is it a problem in adults? Was NICE right to limit the use of cholinesterase inhibitors to moderate dementia only? How can we use research evidence in our daily clinical practice?
Dr Rebecca Lingwood, joint organiser of the conference, and Director of Continuing Professional Development at the University's Department for Continuing Education, said: 'We are delighted to be working with the Department of Psychiatry to deliver what promises to be an exceptional conference, which will provide an update of the highest quality for clinicians from the UK and overseas'.
The event is supported by a grant from AstraZeneca.
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The Oxford University Department of Psychiatry is a strongly research-orientated clinical department of the University, and a major contributor to the research profile of the University's Medical Sciences Division. The Department's research group was rated as internationally competitive in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, and focuses on four key areas: the neurobiology and treatment of mood disorder, including investigating how antidepressants might work by changing the way that the brain processes information; the psychopathology and management of eating disorders and suicide, including investigating the use of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to reduce repetition of attempted suicide; developmental psychiatry, including using new scanning approaches to investigate the causes of autism; and social psychiatry, including investigating the effectiveness of psychiatric services. The Department is also responsible for training Oxford medical students in psychiatry, and thereby contributes to Oxford's ranking by the Guardian newspaper as the top UK University for medical students.
The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Centre is an innovative unit within the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. The CPD Centre offers the highest quality of courses while providing the flexibility of part-time learning together with world-class postgraduate education and professional development. It offers a variety of workshops, seminars, short courses, postgraduate certificates and diplomas and Master's degrees as well as online courses across a wide range of disciplines and often in partnership with others. http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd.
The conference will be held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, between the late afternoon of Sunday September 16th and the late afternoon of Tuesday September 18th. Detailed information relating to the conference programme is available here.
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