Thursday, October 23
08.00 – 12.00 Set up
Registration counter opens at 10.30
Welcome and arrival
12.00 – 13:30 Lecture Hall 1

Plenary Session:

Resilience processes and dynamics in the general adult population

Chair: Lara Puhlmann and Veronika Engerth

  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
 Lecture Hall 2

Plenary Session:

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
13.30 – 13.45 Coffee Break
13.45 – 14.30 Lecture Hall 1

Keynote Lecture Jan Deussing: Decoding the impact of genetic risk factors and stress exposure on psychiatric disorders

Chair: Angelika Erhardt-Lehmann
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee Break
14.45 – 16.15 Lecture Hall 1

Plenary Session:

Molecular and neural underpinnings of stress-related disorders

(Symposium of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 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
 Lecture Hall 2

Plenary Session:

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
16.15 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Lecture Hall 1

Plenary Session, Dr. med. Edda Neele-Stiftung Symposium:

Stress in neurological conditions

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
 Lecture Hall 2

Plenary Session:

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
18.00 – 18.15 Coffee Break
18.15 – 19.30 Friedrich-von-Gärtner-Saal, St.-Vinzenz-Haus

Opening ceremony

Welcome Addresses:

Prof. Dr. Peter Falkai, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University, Munich
Prof. Dr. Urs Nater, Chair of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Vienna, and WASAD President
Prof. Dr. Angelika Erhardt-Lehmann, Senior Psychiatrist, Project Group Leader Neurobiology of Anxiety Disorders, and Congress President

Hans Selye Lecture:
Prof. Dr. Brenda Penninx, Towards reducing the public health burden of anxiety disorders

Chair: Peter Falkai

 
19.30 – 21.30 Welcome reception at Friedrich-von-Gärtner-Saal, St.-Vinzenz-Haus