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. Evolving resilience: development and dynamics of risk and resilience factors across the lifespan, Speaker to be announced
  2. Invited lecture, Grit Hein
  3. Selected from abstract submissions
  4. Selected from abstract submissions
 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. Selected from abstract submissions
  4. Selected from abstract submissions
13.30 – 13.45 Coffee Break
13.45 – 14.30 Keynote Lecture Jan Deussing: Decoding the impact of genetic risk factors and stress exposure on psychiatric disorders
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-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. DNA-Methylation signatures of anxiety states in patients with panic disorder: can GWAS data complement EWAS data? 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. Selected from abstract submissions
  4. Selected from abstract submissions
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. Stress, addiction and cognition, Toshikazu Saitog
  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. Selected from abstract submissions
 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. Selected from abstract submissions
  4. Selected from abstract submissions
18.00 – 18.15 Coffee Break
18.15 – 19.30 Lecture Hall 1

Opening ceremony

Welcome Addresses:

Prof. Dr. Peter Falkai, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, LMU University of 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

 
19.30 – 21.30 Welcome reception at the congress venue