New Therapeutic Findings in Depression

Invitation to the scientific symposia on the occasion of the nomination of  Prof. Helen Mayberg for the Emil Kraepelin Professorship 2008

 

Annually the foundation "Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie" assigns outstanding scientists for their remarkable clinical or preclinical achivements in neuroscience with the Emil Kraepelin Professorship.

This year Professor Helen S. Mayberg from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta will be honored. The research of Prof. Mayberg concentrates on neuronal systems, responsible for the genesis of mood and emotions and on the identification of biomarkers in depressive patients to optimize therapeutic strategies.

 

Within the symposia Prof. Mayberg and colleagues of  the Emory University School of Medicine together with researchers of the Max Planck Institut will present "New Therapeutic Findings in Depression".

 

 

Program

11:00 am	Welcome   Florian Holsboer
11:15 am	Chronic and treatment-resistant depression: epidemiology, neurobiology and treatment   Paul E. Holtzheimer
11:45 am	Conditional CRH-overexpressing mouse mutants: Dissecting CRH-sensitive pathways in vivo   Jan Deussing
0:15 pm	Lunch break
1:30 pm	Laudation   Florian Holsboer
1:45 pm	Lecture of the Emil Kraepelin Professor 2008: Modulating depression circuits using deep brain stimulation: Rationale and current findings   Helen S. Mayberg
2:30 pm	Coffee break
3:00 pm	Current findings from studies combining endocrine measures of the stress response and neuroimaging   Philipp Sämann
3:30 pm	Gene x environment interactions in depression: Implications for therapeutic approaches   Elisabeth Binder

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