Cambridge/Luton International Conference on Mental Health 2009
Venue: Clinical School William Harvey Lecture Theatre
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Event Date/Time: Nov 19, 2009 | End Date/Time: Nov 21, 2009 |
Description
Delegate rates (includes attendance to whole conference, including coffee/biscuits/lunch)
Cambridge/Luton International Conference
on Mental Health 2009
Thursday 19th November 2009
Clinical School, University of Cambridge
0820-0905 Conference opening/Registration/Posters
0905-0915 Welcome & opening remarks Dr Rashid Zaman
Dr Mark Agius
Prof Peter Jones
Keynote Speech
0915-0955 Thomas Frodl [Ireland] Neuroscience and Depression
Symposium - Bipolar Disorders: Neuroscience (Chair: Prof Paykel & TBA)
0955-1015 Luchezar G. Hranov [Bulgaria] Do neurons have mood and how can they be stabilised?
1015-1030 Graham Murray [UK] FMRI, Reward Mechanisms and Dopamine
1030-1050 Peter Pregl [Slovenia] Genetics of Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder
1050-1105 Mark Agius, Jean Lee, David Wotherspoon [UK] Is there a biological basis to the
Bipolar Spectrum?
1105-1135 Coffee
Symposium - Bipolar Disorders: Clinical Delivery (Chair: Prof Paykel & TBA)
1135-1155 Nicholas Zadanowic [Belgium] Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents
1155-1215 Giuseppe Tavormina [Italy] Temperaments in Bipolar Disorders
1215-1245 Martha Sajatovic [USA] Targeted Training in Illness Management (TTIM)
for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Diabetes Mellitus (DM)
1245-1400 Lunch/Poster
Symposium - Sharing Care with Primary Care: Depression (Chair: TBA & TBA)
1400-1430 Linda Gask [UK] Collaborative care with GPs
1430-1500 Zoltan Rhimer [Hungary] / Mark Agius [UK] Training GPs to Prevent Suicide
1500-1530 Coffee
Symposium - War & PTSD (Chair: TBA & TBA)
1530-1600 Walter Busuttil [UK] Treating British Army Veterans
1600-1630 Sladjana Ivezic [Croatia] Psychosis and PTSD, lessons of a war
1630-1650 Ivan Urlic [Croatia] Developing a PTSD treatment centre in Dalmatia
2000- Dinner
Cambridge/Luton International Conference
on Mental Health 2009
Friday 20th November 2009
Clinical School, University of Cambridge
Symposium - Immunology and Psychiatry (Chair: TBA & TBA)
0900-0920 Norbert Moller [Germany] Role of the immune system in Schizophrenia & Depression
0920-0940 Hemmo Dexage [Netherlands] The Kraepelinian dichotomy: an immunologist’s view
0940-1000 Aye Mu Myint [Germany] Immune system and tryptophan metabolism interaction:
pathophysiological role in Depression and Schizophrenia
1000-1020 Bojana Avgustin [Slovenia] Immunology and Depression
1020-1045 Coffee
Keynote Speech
1045-1115 Georg Northoff [Canada] Is schizophrenia a disorder of the self?
Abnormal attunement & neuronal contextualization: A neurophenomenal hypothesis
Symposium - Neuroimaging and TMS (Chair: TBA & TBA)
1115-1145 Eva Meisenzahl [Germany] Neuroimaging in Schizophrenia; from basic science to
clinical neurodiagnostics.
1145-1215 Jiri Horacek [Czech Republic] The ins and outs of Ketamine model
of schizophrenia qEEG and FMRI study in healthy volunteers
1215-1235 Rashid Zaman [UK] TMS in Psychoses
1235-1300 Martin Brunovsky [Czech Republic] Early reduction in prefrontal theta QEEG
cordance in the prediction of antidepressant treatment in pharmaco-resistant patients
1300-1400 Lunch/Posters
Keynote Speech
1400-1430 Ed Bullmore [UK] Brain Networks in Schizophrenia
Symposium - Schizophrenia/Psychoses (Chair: TBA & TBA)
1430-1500 Peter Jones [UK] Epidemiology of Psychosis
1500-1515 Anton Grech [Malta] Epidemiology of Psychosis in Malta
1515-1530 Alina Borkowska [Poland] The association between psychopathoplogical symptoms
using PANNS and neurocognitive domains in 1200 patients treated with Olanzapine
1530-1600 Coffee
Keynote Speech
1600-1710 Juan Lopez Ibor [Spain] How delusions are formed
Symposium - Schizophrenia/Psychoses Treatments (Chair: TBA & TBA)
1710-1730 Koksal Alpetkin [Turkey] What did results of meta-analytic and follow up studies
tell us? Can we treat Schizophrenia successfully?
1730-1745 Eva Palova [Slovakia] Weight gain in Schizophrenia and strategies to deal with it
1745-1810 TK Larsen [Norway] Primary vs Secondary Prevention Studies; experiences from
Norway and Denmark; TIPS and TOP
2000- Conference Dinner
Cambridge/Luton International Conference
on Mental Health 2009
Saturday 21st November 2009
Clinical School, University of Cambridge
Symposium - Medical Students and Psychiatry (Chair: TBA & TBA)
0930-0950 Dinesh Bhugra [UK] Teaching Medical Students Psychiatry in England
0950-1000 Mark Agius/Rashid Zaman[UK] Teaching Medical Students in Bedford;
encouraging research.
1000-1020 Michael Gilholey, Abi Davis [UK] The Student’s point of view
1020-1035 David Cassar/Anton Grech [Malta] Teaching Medical Students clinical skills in
Psychiatry in Malta
Keynote Speech
1035-1115 Patrick McGorry [Australia] Early Intervention in Psychosis
1115-1135 Coffee/Posters
Symposium - First Episode Studies (Chair: TBA & TBA)
1135-1150 Marjeta Blinc-Pesek [Slovenia] Using the recovery model in Group work
with Psychotic Patients
1150-1205 Mark Agius, Chris Kelly [UK] Meta-analysis of Prodrome studies and
First Episode Studies
1205-1220 Bent Rosenbaum [Denmark] Danish National Schizophrenia Project Update
Symposium - Mental Health issues in UK South Asians (Chair: TBA & TBA)
1220-1250 Dinesh Bhugra [UK] Transcultural Psychiatry in South Asians
1250-1320 Swaran Singh [UK] Ethnic Differences in Early Psychosis; Causes and Consequences
1320-1330 Rashid Zaman/Mark Agius/Peter Jones [UK] Summary & closure