The Scientific Program includes 14 Plenary Sessions:

Plenary Sessions on Monday, September 11, 2023

P1 Complementary approaches to stress related diseases: connecting multi-site imaging, experimental imaging, machine learning and epigenetics

Chair: Philipp Sämann und Angelika Erhardt-Lehmann

  1. ENIGMA & Hippocampal Subfields, Philipp Sämann
  2. Brain Age & MDD, Nahid Taheri
  3. Imaging Stress Test, Mira Erhart
  4. Anxiety and Epigenetics, Angelika Erhardt-Lehmann

P2 Challenges and perspectives in the treatment of anxiety disorders – a clinical update

Chair: Peter Zwanzger and Borwin Bandelow

  1. Pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorders – the new guidelines of the WFSBP, Borwin Bandelow
  2. Anxiety, sleep and stress, Martin Hatzinger
  3. Digital approaches in the treatment of anxiety disorders – opportunities and limitations, Peter Zwanzger
  4. Anxiety and the COVID-19 pandemic, Antonia Bendau

P3 Stress in neurological conditions (Edda Neele Symposium)

Chair: Peter Riederer and Thomas Brücke

  1. Is ADHD a risk for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease? Linked via oxidative stress and inflammation? Edna Grünblatt
  2. MSA, a multiple stress disorder, Gregor Wenning
  3. TBA
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P4 Women & Stress

Chair: Birgit Derntl and Andreas Fallgatter

  1. Stress hormone dynamics and reproductive states, Vibe Frokjaer
  2. Hormonal contraception and stress reactivity, Birgit Derntl
  3. TBA
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P5 Everyday Life Stress

Chair: Urs Nater and Andreas Schwerdtfeger

  1. Are cumulative episodes of non-metabolic reductions in heart rate variability in daily life informative of a person’s mental health? Andreas Schwerdtfeger
  2. Examining fatigue and chronic stress in adults: From lab to life, Nida Ali
  3. TBA
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P6 Stress, Anxiety and Covid-19

Chair: Christian Jacob and TBA

  1. Invited lecture
  2. Predicting stress, fatigue, mood, and hair cortisol in two COVID-19 lockdowns, Aljoscha Dreisörner
  3. TBA
  4. TBA

Plenary Sessions on Tuesday, September 12, 2023

P7 ADHD and stress under different perspectives, what we can learn from translational research

Chair: Stefano Pallanti and Susanne Walitza

  1. Oxidative stress and inflammation in ADHD? Personalized in vitro modeling and treatments effects, Edna Grünblatt
  2. Emotional dysregulation in ADHD, and treatment outcome. A summary of the evidence, Stefano Pallanti
  3. Climate change impact on ADHD? Thomas Müller
  4. TBA

P8 Preventing trauma and suicidality

Chair: Gregor Berger and TBA

  1. Invited lecture
  2. Invited lecture
  3. Invited lecture
  4. Invited lecture

P9 Zurich translates Stress: New findings on understanding and treating stress from the HMZ flagship project STRESS

Chair: Johannes Bohacek and Birgit Kleim

  1. TBA
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P10 Anxiety, depression and loneliness

Chair: Jens Benninghoff and TBA

  1. Depression and anxiety in the elderly, Jens Benninghoff
  2. Invited lecture
  3. TBA
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P11 Stress and Addiction: Biological & Psychological Mechanisms

Chair: Mustafa al´Absi and TBA

  1. Impact of traumatic stress and early life adversity on addiction and relapse: Biobehavioral mechanisms and therapeutic implications, Mustafa al´Absi
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P12 Psychobiological Mechanisms of Social Stress and Social Buffering

Chair: Beate Ditzen and TBA

  1. A minimal couple intervention to improve stress resilience: Neuroendocrine and immunological findings, Beate Ditzen
  2. Social buffering in virtual reality and real life, Grit Hein
  3. TBA
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Plenary Sessions on Wednesday, September 13, 2023

P13 New insights in aetiology and therapy of anxiey, depression and stress related disorders (Symposium of the SGAD)

Chair: Annette Brühl and TBA

  1. Environmental factors in offspring of parents with mood disorders and their role in parent–child transmission: findings from a 14 year prospective high risk study, Martin Preisig
  2. Biomarker-guided antidepressant therapy, Martin Hatzinger
  3. Brain Stimulation in stress-related, anxiety and affective disorders – an overview, Annette Brühl
  4. TBA

P14 Telemedicine

Chair: Tobias Renner and TBA

  1. Invited lecture
  2. TBA
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