Neuropsychopharmacology And Mental Disorders -- Bridging The Gap Between Science And Medicine

Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience
Also Included In: Conferences;  Biology / Biochemistry;  Psychology / Psychiatry
Article Date: 20 May 2008 - 6:00 PDT

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The 21st ECNP Congress, to be held from 30 August - 3 September 2008 in Barcelona, Spain is the largest high-level scientific meeting on neuropsychopharmacology and mental disorders in Europe, which presents a well-balanced scientific programme covering both clinical and preclinical topics.

More than 6,500 psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, and neuroscience researchers from all over the world will gather in Barcelona to present and discuss the latest breakthroughs and new perspectives covering virtually all disorders of the brain.

At its press conferences the following topics of the scientific programme will be presented by renowned experts:

1. General ECNP press conference
Friday, 29 August 2008 from 12.00-13.00 hours, Room F, Level -1

• Antidepressants in general and in suicide prevention
  Errki Isometsä, Finland

2. Topic-specific press conferences
Sunday, 31 August 2008 from 16:15-16:45 hours, Room F, Level -1

• Neurogenesis in the adult brain: the association with stress and depression Eberhard Fuchs, Germany
  
  
• The consensus statement 2007 on bipolar depression
  Guy M. Goodwin, United Kingdom
  
  
• Monday, 1 September 2008 from 16:15-16:45 hours, Room F, Level -1
  The first autism disease genes
  Marion Leboyer, France
  
  
• Advantages of new formulations of antipsychotic drugs
  Luca Pani, Italy
  
  
• Tuesday, 2 September 2008 from 16:15-16:45 hours, Room F, Level -1
  Antihypertensive treatment on cognitive functions in Alzheimer's disease
  Ingmar Skoog, Sweden
  
  
• Alcoholism-associated molecular adaptations in brain neurocognitive circuits
  Georgy Bakalkin, Sweden

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Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release.
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We hope that this congress will be of a source of information for spreading the spirit of scientific adventure and discovery!

Source: Sonja Mak
European College of Neuropsychopharmacology