The Scientific Program includes 15 Plenary Sessions:

 

P1 Molecular and neural underpinnings of stress-related disorders

(Symposium of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Munich, Germany)

Chair: Darina Czamara and Natan Yusupov

  1. Cardio-insular processing shapes emotion state coding, Meryl Malezieux
  2. DNA methylation patterns of FKBP5 regulatory regions in brain and blood of humanized mice and humans, Natan Yusupov
  3. Epigenomic embedding of childhood adversity links to disease risk and chronic inflammation: insights from contextual meQTL studies, Darina Czamara
  4. Effects of early life adversity on the reward system and fear generalization, Philipp Sämann

P2 Stress in neurological conditions

(Dr. med Edda Neele-Stiftung Symposium)

Chair: Peter Riederer and Toshikazu Saito

  1. New insights of neural network recoveries in ethanol- and immune activation stress-induced cognitive dysfunction, Toshikazu Saito
  2. Impact of psychosocial and traumatic stress on cognitive functions, Mustafa al Absi
  3. New concepts for stress reduction in the field of dementia, Jens Benninghoff
  4. Potential of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA) in neuropsychiatry: focusing on mitochondrial function, cognition, emotion, and application in Post-COVID conditions, Hiroki Ozawa

P3 Women, stress & reproductive health

Chair: Birgit Derntl and Andreas Fallgatter

  1. Estrogen pathways in stress and anxiety: Insights from rodent and human studies, Erika Comasco
  2. Stress and sleep during the peripartum period, Katharina Pittner
  3. Oral contraceptive transitions are associated with altered subjective, physiological and neural stress reactivity, Madeleine Kördel
  4. Are heart rate variability and hypertension risk factors for all-cause mortality in women with and without coronary heart disease? Hans-Christian Deter

P4 Digital interventions

Chair: Christian Jacob and Lisanne Robbemond

  1. A conversational agent to treat depression in young people (CADY), Stefan Lüttke
  2. Evaluating Virtual Reality Relaxation for psychiatric patients: RCT results and clinical implications, Lisanne Robbemond
  3. A digital stress management intervention tool – EPIGRAM, Nadja Plumbaum
  4. Eye tracking based attention feedback to enhance virtual reality exposure therapy, Theresa F. Wechsler

P5 Mechanisms in stress and anxiety-related disorders

Chair: Dominique de Quervain

  1. Introducing the Global Stress and Resilience Network: Aims, activities, and vision, Dominique de Quervain
  2. Risk and protective factors of youth mental health: a network approach, Silja Bachmann
  3. Climate anxiety in populations at risk: A German quantitative study of adults with mental health disorders and university students, Gloria Düllberg
  4. Imagery-based fear conditioning as a learning model for social anxiety, Matthias FJ Sperl
  5. Mediating role of coping in the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and health related quality of life among older adults, Hina Ghafoor

P6 Perspectives in the management of anxiety

(Symposium of the Gesellschaft für Angstforschung e.V., Wasserburg am Inn, Germany)

Chair: Katharina Domschke and Peter Zwanzger

  1. Treatment resistance – Definition and options, Katharina Domschke
  2. Potential pharmacological targets in the future – Is there anything in the pipeline? Peter Zwanzger
  3. New avenues in psychotherapy – D-Cycloserin and personalized psychotherapy, Stefan G. Hofmann
  4. Personalized treatment in Anxiety Disorders – A role for biomarkers? Miriam Schiele

P7 Psychocardiology and Coronary Artery Disease

Chair: Karl-Heinz Ladwig and Malte Meesmann

  1. Stress and inflammatory processes in coronary artery disease, Hendrik Sager
  2. Psychosocial factors in coronary artery disease – evidence from prospective studies, Christian Albus
  3. Transgenerational burden in coronary artery disease, Christiane Waller
  4. Case report on stress as the main trigger of coronary artery disease, Malte Meesmann

P8 Trauma, migration and refugees

Chair: Birgit Kleim and Veronika Engert

  1. Empathic abilities and physiological processes – Risk or protective factors in the context of war-related trauma? Christiane Wesarg
  2. Where the lines between stress and trauma blur: Psychobiological consequences of covert political repression, Ruth Marheinecke
  3. The effect of war on prenatal brain development: Evidence from genetically-informed brain imaging, Gökhan Aydogan
  4. Physiological reactivity to trauma narratives in adolescents with PTSD and complex PTSD, Oswald Kothgassner

P9 Everyday life stress

Chair: Urs Nater and Andreas Schwerdtfeger

  1. Trajectories of everyday life stress across the menstrual cycle, Celine Bencker
  2. Impact of Social Stress, Cortisol Awakening Response and Sex on Hippocampus and Amygdala Volume, Lydia Kogler
  3. Regulating Collective Emotion Through Music: Diachronic Analysis of Stress, Sentiment, and Complexity in Lyrics (1973–2023), Markus Foramitti
  4. The heart knows best? Evaluating the effectiveness of just in time interventions triggered by heart rate variability to relieve stress, Andreas Schwerdtfeger

P10 Resilience processes and dynamics in the general adult population

Chair: Lara Puhlmann and Veronika Engert

  1. Psychological Resilience: Stable trait or dynamic process? Comparison of stressor reactivity trajectories after 1.5 years, Charlotte Schenk
  2. How malleable is resilience? Mapping stable prediction and dynamic changes in the general population, Lara Puhlmann
  3. Linking affective dynamics in response to daily stressors with one-year changes in adolescent mental health, Paula Philippi
  4. Ecological momentary assessment of stress in youths: A systematic review, Laura Meine

P11  Stress, trauma and addiction

Chair: Mustafa al´Absi and TBA

  1. Links between stress, trauma, and addiction: exploring biobehavioral mechanisms and pathways, Mustafa al´Absi
  2. A precision approach to intrusive thinking: Mechanisms and clinical implications, Cristina Ottaviani
  3. Chronic stress and the biobehavioral response to stress as indicators of clinical outcome and targets for treatment in addiction, Helen C. Fox
  4. When trust breaks: Epistemic disruption as a link between early relational trauma and PTSD symptomatology, Eileen Lashani

P12 Biomarkers and novel therapeutics for stress-related and anxiety disorders

Chair: Angelika Erhardt and Nida Ali

  1. Neuroinflammatory biomarkers in anxiety disorders and PTSD, Nicolas Singewald
  2. Blood-based Biomarker for anxiety disorders, Iiris Hovatta
  3. Stress biomarkers in saliva, Nida Ali
  4. Interleukin-6 but not S100 beta and salivary cortisol relate to symptom severity in major depression, Dirk Wedekind

P13 Stress and anxiety in children and adolescents

Chair: Ellen Greimel and Belinda Platt

  1. Emotion regulation training for adolescents with major depression: Results from a randomized controlled trial, Lisa Feldmann
  2. Interpretation biases and stress reactivity and youth, Belinda Platt
  3. Evaluating the implementation of an evidence-based digitally-supported preventive intervention for children of parents affected by depression, Alannah Booth
  4. One-session treatment for childhood specific phobias: Results from a randomized controlled trial focusing on the additional effect of an app-based homework program, Anke Klein

P14 Optimized therapy for stress-related disorders

Chair: Thomas Ehring and Gerd Laux

  1. Understanding and tackling treatment failure in posttraumatic stress disorder: Dropout, non-response, and unintended effects, Thomas Ehring
  2. Therapy with antidepressants in the “real world”, Gerd Laux
  3. Evidence vs. efficacy: Real-world outcomes of anxiety treatment in resource-limited settings, Andri Andri
  4. The biopsychological mediation model of music on health – Implications for treatment of stress-related disorders, Anna Fekete

P15 Boosting societal adaptation and mental health in a rapidly digitalizing, post-pandemic Europe

Chair: Susanne Walitza and Julius Burkauskas

Short virtual introduction: The BootStRaP Horizon Europe project on problematic use of the internet among European adolescents – aims and mission, Naomi Fineberg

  1. The BootStRaP Horizon Europe project on problematic use of the internet among European adolescents: recruitment and first results of cohort 1, Jasmin Schilling
  2. Problematic internet use and mental health: insights from recent Lithuanian surveys, Julius Burkauskas
  3. Emotional distress and its role in the development of problematic Internet use, Annika Brandtner
  4. Stress and mental health conditions induced by pathological media use among Swiss adolescents: insights from general population samples, Susanne Walitza