Friday, October 24
09.00 – 09.45 Lecture Hall 1

Keynote Lecture Karl-Heinz Ladwig: The orchestrated stress-induced interaction between brain and heart: is there a conductor?

Chair: Mustafa al´Absi
09.45 – 10.15 Coffee Break
10.15 – 11.45 Lecture Hall 1

Plenary Session:

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
 Lecture Hall 2

Plenary Session:

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
11.45 – 12.30 Lunch 12.00 – 13.30

Guided Postertour 1
12.30 – 13.30 Lecture Hall 1

Industry Symposium by Schwabe
13.30 – 13.45 Coffee Break
13.45 – 14.30 Lecture Hall 1

Keynote Lecture Peter Zwanzger: Virtual Reality in anxiety – perspectives and limitations

Chair: Andreas Fallgatter
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee Break
14.45 – 16.15 Lecture Hall 1

Plenary Session:

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
 Lecture Hall 2

Plenary Session:

Stress, trauma and addiction

Chair: Mustafa al´Absi

  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
16.15 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00 Lecture Hall 1

Plenary Session:

Biomarkers and novel therapeutics for stress-related and anxiety disorders

Chair: Angelika Erhardt-Lehmann 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
 Guided Postertour 2
19.00 Speakers Dinner