International College of Affective NeuroScience
Affective Neuroscience: a new scientific discipline
Jun 11th
Affective Neuroscience is a growing field of clinical and scientific interest. Up to now, there are, to my knowledge, only two scientific societies in this field. The ICANS – International College of Affective Neuroscience that was born in 2009 in Europe and is addressed to clincians and scientists living and working all over the world and the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society that was recently founded in the United States and had the Annual Meeting in October 2009. The surprising and main characteristic of these Scientific Societies is to be really new, growing, and attractive for young people who are looking for a discipline in psichiatry and in psychology really projected to the future. If you want to read more about this, please click here.
Anxiety Disorders Conference: Online Submissions Open
Jun 10th
The Anxiety Disorders Association of America organizes an unique conference engaging over 900 researchers and clinicians focusing on anxiety and related disorders in children and adults. Submissions can address basic laboratory research to clinical studies to the dissemination of techniques and treatments that promote improved outcomes in real world patients suffering from a range of disorders associated with fear, anxiety and anxiety-related disorders. Workshops on treatment and strategies for improving outcomes in patients with anxiety disorders and comorbid illnesses including depression, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, eating disorders and physical illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, epilepsy, asthma and other illnesses, are welcome.
The online submission site is now open at www.adaa.org and you can download the Call for Papers.
15th World Congress of Psychiatry
Jun 8th
The 15th World Congress of Psychiatry will be from 18 to 22 of September, 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
16th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association
Jun 8th
The 16th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association will be from 14-18 May, 2011 in Honolulu, United States.
ICANS ANNUAL MEETING 2010
May 12th
Subtyping major depressive disorder
May 11th
I just read an interesting paper by P. Lichtenberg and R.H. Belmaker published in Psychotherpay and Psychosomatics on subtypes of depression that seemed to me extremely interesting. The authors suggested that the current definition of depression is too broad and polymorphic to reflect a single process. For this reason, they try to delineate different forms of depression taking into acocunt symtpmatology, childhood trauma, marital and employment stress, medical health. They also suggest that the current diagnostic system does not encourage a reasecrh for subtypes of depression that may require specific treatment. This could be, at least in part, the reason why placebo response rates raise and the number of subjects needed in randomized clinical trials increases. The authors propose an intuition-based proposal for heuristically classifying depression. For more details on the possible subtypes of depression proposed please click here.
APM 57th Annual Meeting
May 11th
The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine 2010 Annual Meeting “Advancing Psychosomatic Medicine through Excellence in Education” will be in November 10-13, 2010, Marco Island, Folrida. For more details please click here.
The 10th International Forum on Mood and Anxiety Disorders
May 11th
The Forum will be held in Vienna from 17-19 November 2010 at the Hotel Hilton. For more information please click here.
World Congress of NeuroTechnology 2010
Apr 27th
The World Congress of NeuroTechnology 2010 will be taking place from 12 – 14 October 2010 at the Montecitorio Congress Centre in Rome, Italy. To have more details please click here.
Hoarding disorder: a new diagnosis for DSM-V?
Apr 15th
This is actually the title of an article recently published in Depression and Anxiety, but it reflects exactly what I wanted to convey in this post, so I thought I’d borrow it.
As some of you may already know, Hoarding is the subject of my PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. Until recently, hoarding has been thought to be a symptom (or symptom dimension) of OCD, but a growing body of robust evidence has been recently showing that it may actually constitute a separate diagnostic entity. We have termed it ‘Hoarding Disorder‘.
The proposed Fifth Edition for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-V) is due for publication in 2013. A preliminary draft, along with newly proposed diagnoses, can be found here. Among the possible new diagnoses is Hoarding Disorder.
Some of the recent articles about the topic are:
Hoarding disorder: a new diagnosis for DSM-V? – Mataix-Cols 2010
Article commissioned by the DSM5 workgroup that outlines the rationale for the creation of a new disorder in DSM5.
A comprehensive review on the neurobiology, epidemiology, phenomenology etc. of hoarding as a symptom.
The status of hoarding as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder – Abramowitz 2008
A couple of studies about the relation between OCD and hoarding.
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