International College of Affective NeuroScience
European Psychiatric Association 2011
Apr 14th
19th European Congress of Psychiatry, Vienna, Austria, 12-15 March, 2011
All proposals for workshops and symposia must be submitted online via the congress website. The online submission system will close on Saturday, May 15, 2010. For more details plese click here.
20th IFP World Congress of Psychotherapy
Mar 4th
the 20th IFP World Congress of Psychotherapy and FMPP Annual Congress which will be held from June 16–19, 2010, at the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne (KKL), Switzerland.
The conference will be jointly organized by the International Federation for Psychotherapy IFP and the Foederatio Medicorum Psychiatricorum et Psychotherapeuticorum FMPP, the umbrella organisation that unites the Swiss Societies for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, for adults as well as for children and adolescents. The event is also cosponsored by the World Psychiatric Association WPA. To know more click here
23rd European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress
Feb 20th
The 23rd ECNP Congress will be held in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) from 28 August until 1 September 2010
The deadline for submission of papers,, early registration fee and application for ECNP Award is 31 March 2010.
You can find more information here.
British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) summer meeting
Feb 19th
The BAP summer meeting 2010 will be held in Harrogate (UK) between 25 and 28 july 2010.
Deadlines:
Abstract Submissions and Bursary Applications: 19th March
Undergraduate Abstract Submissions: 16th April
Early Bird Registration: 18th June
Nature: How to write science books
Feb 12th
During this week, five top science book writers will be offering advice for budding authors in a series of interviews in Nature’s Books & Arts section. Find the link here
- Peter Atkins reveals the hard work behind a successful textbook
- Carl Zimmer highlights how passion is essential for popular science
- David Brin reveals how criticism improves his fiction writing
- Georgina Ferry shares research tips for biographies
- Joanna Cole explains how to convey science to children
1st International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder
Feb 10th
if you are interested, in Berlin, from July 1st to July 3rd 2010, there will be the 1st International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder
Feb 9th
Authomatic Mood-Congruent Amygdala Responses to Masked Facial Expressions in Major Depression
In a recent study by Thomas Suslow et al (Biol Psychiatry 2010; 67:155-160), the authors studied the neurobiological substrates of automatic emotion processing in depression.
They compared 30 acutely depressed patients and 26 healthy control subjects regarding automatic amygdala responses to happy and sad facial expressions, using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
A presentation paradigm using subliminal, backward-masked stimuli was used to examine amygdale automatic responses.
The authors observed a robust emotion by group interaction in the right amygdala. The healthy controls revealed stronger responses to happy faces and depressed patients showed the opposite.
Amygdala responsiveness to happy facial expression correlated negatively with severity of depression.
The authors concluded that depressed patients exhibit potentiated amygdala reactivity to masked negative stimuli and a reduced responsiveness to masked positive stimuli when compared to healthy controls.
The authors suggested that depression is characterized by mood-congruent processing of emotional stimuli in the amygdala already at an automatic level of processing.
Feb 9th
Affective Neurosciences: a crucial role in Psychiatry
Neuroscience has been a growing revolutionary field of scientific knowledge. The increasing recognition of the importance of emotional processes and subjective experience in several aspects of human behaviour parallel the growing amount of research in the field of affective neuroscience. Affective neuroscience studies the brain mechanisms subjacent to emotional behaviour.
Several studies address brain functions and how emotions relate to genetics, learning, primary motivations, stress response, and human behaviour. Some actual areas of research within affective neuroscience include: emotional learning, affective behaviour, emotional empathy, psychosomatic medicine, functional and structural biomarkers, emotional disorders, and stress response, among others.
In Psychiatry, affective neurosciences find application in understanding the neurobiology of affective disorders, the neural control of interpersonal and social behaviour, and the emotional systems that underlie psychopathology. Affective neuroscience reflects the integration of knowledge across disciplines allowing a broader understanding of human functioning. The field of affective neuroscience is an exciting field of future psychiatric research and provides an investigational framework for studying psychiatric morbidity.
Registering research projects: practical issues?
Feb 8th
I would just like to know what is your usual way of acting regarding the recommendation on registering clinical trials by some journals and the International Committe Of Medical Journal Editors
Do you usually register all your research projects? Or just the clinical trials? Or none?
Is it really asked by scientific journals to have done this before starting the research?
Thank you
How can I do an online survey involving as many psychiatrists/psychologists as possible?
Feb 5th
Hi there!
I am Lorena Fernández, a resident psychologist from Spain. I recently did my application to be an ICANS member for recommendation of Alberto Pertusa, who talked me about your existence. I trust it will be an enriching experience! I have been visiting your website and the contents seem really interesting. And I like the design!
I am currently doing a 3-month research stage at the Institute of Psychiatry (London), with Alberto Pertusa and David Mataix-Cols. We are preparing a survey for psychiatrists and psychologists about hoarding disorder. We are looking for different ways to get as many clinicians and researchers (psychiatrists and psychologists) take the online survey. Does anyone here have any idea of how to start with this? (i.e., how to build a cool online survey, how to get to as many people as possible etc) Perhaps you know any association or group we could contact to distribute our survey among its members?
Thanks! We’ll keep in touch!
Lorena
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