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About PsychX and ECNP
We believe in making mental health expertise readily available to all. This vision led to the creation of PsychX, a platform to champion both emerging and established voices in the mental health domain. Every month, we host short online discussions spanning various mental health topics, making knowledge accessible without registration fees or hidden costs.
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In 2022, PsychX and ECNP started collaborating. As from 2023, all PsychX talks were transferred to ECNP.
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1 July 2024, 16.30-17.30 CEST (Central European Summer Time)
Less is more – a differentiated approach to antipsychotic medication in Soteria
Martin Voss, Germany
Soteria (ancient Greek: healing, welfare, preservation, rescue) refers to an inpatient treatment approach for accompanying people in psychotic crises, in which so-called "milieu therapy" and close personal support ("being with") are at the center of the treatment. Because of its calming, relaxing and setting, Soteria can help to minimize doses of antipsychotic medication which in turn improves adherence and long term outcomes in first episode schizophrenia. The lecture provides an overview of the origin and development of the Soteria idea and uses the example of the Soteria Berlin at Charité University Hospital/St. Hedwig Hospital (Berlin, Germany) to show how such a concept can be established in the hospital and become part of standard psychiatric care.
Having studied medicine and philosophy in Aachen and Berlin; Martin's initial training in neurology was at Charité Berlin. A postdoctoral researcher at the institute of neurology, UCL, London, UK from 2003-2005. Training in psychiatry from 2006; he obtained the role of consultant psychiatrist at the department of psychiatry and psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine and St. Hedwig Hospital in Berlin, Germany. Martin Voss is the founder of Soteria Berlin (2013) where his roles span: clinical supervisor, psychotherapist (psychodynamic psychotherapy), Head of the research division ''Psychotic Disorders“. He is a lecturer in psychiatry (Charité Medical School) and an internationally recognized researcher (main research Interest: self-disorders in schizophrenia, sense of self-agency, embodiment, effects of architecture and design on mental disorders and well-being).
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Rene Kahn, USA
René Kahn is chair of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2017. After completing medical school in the Netherlands, he was trained as a psychiatrist and neurologist in Utrecht and Amsterdam. He subsequently completed his psychiatry residencies at Mount Sinai Hospital and then worked as chief of the psychiatry research unit at the Bronx VA. In 1993 he became chair of psychiatry at the University Hospital Utrecht, going on to lead the Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, which combines research in basic neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology. Kahn has published over 950 research papers with a web of science H index of 107. He has been continuously funded for over 25 years by NIMH, the EU, the Stanley Foundation, and other organisations. He has served on several neuroscience grant review boards. René Kahn received several honors, such as a Fulbright Scholarship, membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award, an honorary doctorate at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and the lifetime achievement award of the Netherlands Psychiatric Association. He was knighted in the Netherlands in 2018. He served as treasurer and vice-president of ECNP and as president of the Schizophrenia International Research Society. He is a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
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