Previous meetings
See below previous meetings organised by the Immuno-NeuroPsychiatry Network:
- 15 February 2024 at 15.00-18.30 CET
Virtual workshop
The ECNP Immuno-Neuropsychiatry Network is organising a virtual workshop together with the ECNP Nutrition Network.
Topic is “Immuno-metabolism axis of mood disorders: towards nutrition interventions”
Programme:
1) Metabolism
Chair: Ana Andreazza, Professor, University of Toronto
Speakers: Martin Picard, Associate Professor Columbia University and Husseini K. Manji, Co-Chair UK Govt Mental Health Mission
Discussant: Andrew Nierenberg, Director Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation
2) ImmunoPsychiatry
Chair: Igor Branchi, Group leader at Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Speakers: Benedetta Vai, Postdoctoral researcher, San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan and Brenda Penninx, Professor, Amsterdam UMC/VUmc.
Discussant: Marion Leboyer, Professor, Université Paris-Est Créteil
3) Nutrition
Chair: Francesca Cirulli, Director, Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Speakers: Christopher M. Palmer, Professor, Harvard Medical School and Eline Van der Beek, Nestlé Nutrition Institute
Discussant: Suzanne Dickson, Professor, University of Gothenburg
- Monday 29 January 17.00-18.00 CET, Luca Sforzini and Benedetta Vai
Gene-expression profiles in major depressive disorder: from clinical phenotypes to immunopsychiatry
Improving mood disorders healthcare: capturing the biological heterogeneity with machine learning”
- Monday 15 January 17.00-18.00 CET, Marion Leboyer
Immuno-genetic background of major psychiatric disorder
- Monday 11 December 17.00-18.00 CET, Greg Miller
Understanding the health consequences of children’s exposure to violence.
- Monday 20 November 17.00-18.00 CET, Giulia Lombardo and Andrea Ballesio
Inflammation and depression: a prospective from insomnia research by Andrea Ballesio.
- Monday 6 November at 17.00 18.00 CET (Central European Time), Igor Branchi
Escaping the inflammatory trap of depression: regulating the interplay between immune activation and plasticity to foster mental health.
- Monday 2 October 17.00-18.00 CEST, Neil Harrison
From neuroimaging to immunopsychiatry
- Monday 16 October 17.00-18.00 CEST, Philippe Kerr and Valentina Mosienko
Is allostatic load more than the sum of its parts? Using network analyses to profile patterns of physiological dysregulation among controls and patients with mood disorders with low and high allostatic load by Philippe Kerr
Astrocytes as targets of antidepressants by Valentina Mosienko
- Monday, 3 July 2023 17.00-18.00 CEST, Daniel Martins and Jonas Hagenberg
Multimodal neuroimaging in neuroimmunopsychiatry: the pressing case of Post-COVID19 fatigue syndrome by Daniel Martins.
Multi-omics clustering of transdiagnostic cases reveals two sub-groups of immune-related depression by Jonas Hagenberg.
- Monday, 19 June 2023 17.00-18.00 CEST, Sonja Entringer
Maternal stress biology and fetal programming of health and disease risk by Sonja Entringer
- Monday, 15 May 2023 17.00-18.00 CEST, Michael Benros
ImmunoPsychiatry: evidence from large-scale studies to detailed clinical studies by Michael Benros
- Monday, 24 April 2023 17.00-18.00 CEST, Jonathan Rogers and Juliette Giacobbe
The neuroimmunology of catatonia by Jonathan Rogers
Modelling the effects of stress on microglia in-vitro: relevance for early-life stress and depression by Juliette Giacobbe
- Monday, 17 April 2023 17.00-18.00 CEST, Caroline Menard
Sex-specific neurovascular and immune alterations underlie stress responses in mice and human depression: opportunities for novel therapeutic approaches and biomarkers
- Monday, 13 March 2023 17.00-18.00 CET, Christoph Anacker
Stress susceptibility and resilience: the role of the ventral hippocampus by Christoph Anacker
- Monday, 20 February 2023 17.00-18.00 CET, Sinead King and Tom Pollak
Early life adversity, functional connectivity and cognitive performance in schizophrenia: the mediating role of inflammation by Sinead King.
Autoantibodies and the brain: autoimmune psychosis and beyond by Tom Pollak
- Monday, 6 February 2023 17.00-18.00 CET, Livia de Picker
The future of immunopsychiatry by Livia de Picker
- Monday, 9 January 2023 17.00-18.00 CET, Aniko Korosi
Early-life stress as risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease: focus on (neuro) inflammation and lipid mediators by Aniko Korosi
Bordeaux Summer School — ECNP Immuno-NeuroPsychiatry
17-19 July 2023, Bordeaux, France
This interdisciplinary summer school was open to graduate students, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers from the fields of psychiatry, psychology, biology and medicine. Course content focused on dimensional approaches in psychiatry, preclinical models and methods to measure immune markers. Lectures on hot topics in immunopsychiatry were given by internationally renowned scientists from the field.
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Will neuropsychiatry shape the future of psychiatry?
27 October 2022, Freiburg, Germany or online
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Bordeaux summer school — ECNP Immuno-NeuroPsychiatry
18-22 July 2022
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Virtual Meeting on Immunometabolic Networks
4 February 2022, 09.00-12.00
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