Modern psychiatry assumes crucial challenge to change the negative course of certain mental illnesses.

XII National Congress of Psychiatry.

- About 2,000 mental health professionals to attend th National Congress of Psychiatry.

- Among the many who are analyzing the importance of early detection of serious psychiatric problems or risk factors most prevalent genetic and environmental-related mental health issues.

- In one of the plenary sessions will be presented by the Center for Biomedical Research in Mental Health CIBERSAM newly created, which includes 25 groups of research excellence throughout Spain.

- The latest trends in dealing with depression, the neurobiology of mental disorders and the effect of environment on mental health are the other issues that make the rest of the plenary sessions.

- Other current issues related to pathology associated with gender, childhood disease, eating disorders, etc.. will also be addressed in depth throughout the sessions of the congress.

- The attention deficit disorder is now, along with the allergy, the most frequent pathology in children.

XXI century psychiatry deals with a fundamental challenge: not to alter the course of certain mental illnesses. That is the main consideration by Carmen Leal, president of the organizing committee of the XII National Congress of Psychiatry which takes place between days 3 and November 8, 2008 at the Palacio de Congresos de Valencia. "We have to analyze precisely the most prevalent risk factors that affect mental health and address the most effective approach," says the president of the congress.

Spanish companies of Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry addressed in this meeting an update of the scientific knowledge of the many different and varied subjects that are covered by the special emphasis on issues such as "research in Spain and its evolution to work in network, the neurobiology of mental disorders, advances in the field of depression or the effect of environment on mental health, since the pathogenesis - the study of factors that cause or are involved in the development of disease-specific to patoplastia or forms of the disease in each individual. "

About 2,000 mental health professionals to attend th National Congress of Psychiatry which will analyze the genetic basis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, child psychiatry, the attention deficit disorders, dementia and many aspects of schizophrenia. Congress also revised the disorders associated with drug use and legal psychiatry.

As regards the chapter on research, the core of the first day of Congress, Carmen Leal said that "too many years ago not to speak of psychiatric research network in Spain was a tricky question. In the last decade, the Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, this area has increased significantly and today one can speak of a reality, with many research projects initiated. "

The attention deficit disorder, is now, along with the allergy, the most frequent pathology in children, and other psychiatric disorders along with identification of better-defined, one of the most prevalent diseases and a challenge for the future in the psychiatric and neurological research in adults. That is why the XII National Congress of Psychiatry will address this issue with intensity, as well as other issues related to child psychiatry. "Not for nothing," says Carmen Leal, "early detection of mental health problems are conducive to the control of many major psychiatric disorders."

The president reminded Congress that "in order to provide a vision as broad as possible to the specialty in the scientific meeting will also address issues epidemiological and psychosomatic." Congress also participate in other societies devoted to specific topics: epidemiology, child psychiatry, psycho, psychosomatic, psychoanalysis, etc.. "We intend to provide a picture of what the current situation in psychiatry today."

The Congress has, in turn, with a chapter surveys resulted in several awards. Thus, the prize will be awarded "Amadeo Sanchez Blanque" the best poster in clinical research in psychiatry (SEPB) VI Prize for the best posters Neurosciences (SEP), the First Prize for best project of social integration of persons with schizophrenia ( FEPSM), the awards program of research excellence SEPB reference for researchers and young researchers credited the award for best doctoral theses submitted during the academic year 2006-2007 (SEPB), the awards' 10 "to better describe Residents in Psychiatry (SEP) and scholarships for training in overseas residents in psychiatry (FEPSM).

Also, in more than 20 workshops were presented programs of exploration and a therapeutic approach to clinical practice, further complemented with events such as the Forum of Women Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Nursing Forum, the Forum for Psychiatry Residents (Training and Research Forum Resident Clinical Psychology (PIR) and meetings of the Evaluation Committee XII National Congress Psychiatry.