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- Evolving Mechanisms of HIV Neuropathogenesis: Domestic and Global Issues
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April 14 – 16, 2007
Venice, Italy
NIMH co-sponsored an international meeting in Venice, Italy to discuss research on disease mechanisms that lead to chronic and milder forms of HIV-associated central nervous system (CNS) disease following long-term anti-retroviral therapy.
- Partnerships to Integrate Evidence Based Mental Health Practices into Social Work Education and Research Meeting
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April 3, 2007
Bethesda, Maryland
In April 2007, the Division of Services and Intervention Research, the Office of Special Populations, and the Office of Constituency Relations and Public Liaison of the National Institute of Mental Health hosted a meeting in which participants shared ideas on building and expanding collaborative relationships to support the further integration of research-based mental health practices into social work education.
- Second International Conference on HIV Treatment Adherence
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March 3, 2007
Jersey City, New Jersey
In March 2007 in Jersey City, New Jersey, the National Institute of Mental Health and the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) hosted a state-of-the-science conference focused on understanding and enhancing patient adherence to HIV treatment regimens.
- Cognitive Neuroscience Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia
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February 3, 2007
Bethesda, Maryland
In February 2007, the National Institute of Mental Health sponsored a conference in Bethesda, Maryland that assembled basic and clinical cognitive neuroscientists, animal modelers from academia and industry, and clinical trial experts who share a common interest in developing neuroscience-based measures for assessing cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Following invited talks by basic scientists and breakout groups involving all attendees, meeting participants suggested eight cognitive constructs for further measurement development within the areas of perception, attention, working memory, executive control, long term memory, and social-emotional processing.
- Developing New Treatments for Tourette Syndrome: Clinical and Basic Science Dialogue
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September 10 – 12, 2006
Washington, D.C.
In September, 2006, NINDS, NIMH, ORD, and the Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA) jointly sponsored a workshop to develop new and improved treatments for children and adults afflicted with Tourette syndrome (TS).
- Annual Family and HIV/AIDS Meeting
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July 1, 2006
San Juan, Puerto Rico
NIMH and the University of Puerto Rico cosponsored the Annual International Research Conference on the Role of Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS.
- Dimensional Approaches in Diagnostic Classification
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July 1, 2006
Bethesda, Maryland
NIMH, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) supported the addition of a meeting on dimensional approaches to the series of meetings that the American Psychiatric Association is conducting in preparation for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V).
- Annual Computational Neuroscience (CNS) meeting
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July 1, 2006
Edinburgh, Scotland
NIMH provided partial support for the 15th annual CNS meeting held in July, in Edinburgh, Scotland. CNS is an interdisciplinary field forging a link between neuroscience, computer science, physics, and applied mathematics.
- NIH State of the Science Conference on Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation, and Control
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June 1, 2006
Bethesda, Maryland
Tobacco use remains the Nation’s leading preventable cause of premature death.
- HIV Preclinical — Clinical Therapeutics Research
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May 1, 2006
Bethesda, Maryland
In May, the NIMH Center for Mental Health Research on AIDS convened this two-day meeting in Bethesda, Maryland
