Biomarkers of Neurological and Psychiatric Disease

1. General overview: biomarkers in neuroscience research - Michaela D. Filiou and Christoph W. Turck2. Imaging brain microglial activation using positron emission tomography and translocator protein specific radioligands - David RJ Owen, Paul M Matthews3. The utility of gene expression in blood cells for diagnosing neuropsychiatric disorders - Christopher H. Woelk, Akul Singhania, Josué Pérez-Santiago, Stephen J. Glatt, Ming T. Tsuang4. Proteomic technologies for biomarker studies in psychiatry: advances and needs - Daniel Martins-de-Souza, Paul C. Guest, Natacha Vanattou-Saifoudine, Laura W. Harris, Sabine Bahn5. Converging evidence of blood-based biomarkers for schizophrenia: an update - Man K.Chan, Paul C. Guest, Yishai Levin, Yagnesh Umrania, Emanuel Schwarz, Sabine Bahn, Hassan Rahmoune 6. Abnormalities in metabolism and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in schizophrenia - Paul C Guest, Daniel Martins-de-Souza, Natacha Vanattou-Saifoudine, Laura W Harris, Sabine Bahn7. Immune and neuro-immune alterations in mood disorders and schizophrenia - Roosmarijn C Drexhage, Karin Weigelt, Nico van Beveren, Dan Cohen, Marjan A. Versnel, Willem A. Nolen Hemmo A. Drexhage8. Behavioural and molecular biomarkers in translational animal models for neuropsychiatric disorders - Zoltán Sarnyai, Murtada Alsaif, Sabine Bahn, Agnes Ernst, Paul C. Guest, Eva Hradetzky, Wolfgang Kluge, Viktoria Stelzhammer and Hendrik Wesseling9. Stem cell models for biomarker discovery in brain disease - Alan Mackay-Sim, George Mellick, Stephen Wood10. The application of multiplexed assay systems for molecular diagnostics - Emanuel Schwarz, Nico JM VanBeveren, Paul C. Guest, Rauf Izmailov, Sabine Bahn11. Algorithm development for diagnostic biomarker assays - Rauf Izmailov, Paul C. Guest, Sabine Bahn, Emanuel Schwarz12. Challenges of introducing new biomarker products for neuropsychiatric disorders into the market - Sabine Bahn, Richard Noll, Anthony Barnes, Emanuel Schwarz, Paul C Guest13. Towards personalized medicine in the neuropsychiatric field - Erik H.F. Wong, Jayne C. Fox, Mandy Y.M. Ng, Chi-Ming Lee14. Clinical utility of serum biomarkers for major psychiatric disorders - Nico JM van Beveren and Witte JG Hoogendijk15. The future: biomarkers, biosensors, neuroinformatics and e-neuropsychiatry - Christopher R Lowe