Making Sense of Mental Illness: Biology, Medicine and Society, 12th EMBO/EMBL Science & Society Conference, 4 - 5 November 2011
février 21st, 2011Please visit the conference website
The conference will take place in Heidelberg, Germany at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre.
This year’s EMBO/EMBL Science&Society conference will discuss the extent and societal impact of mental illness. Experts from a wide range of disciplines will explore the ethical and social implications and explain the latest scientific knowledge on their causes and treatment. The conference will also debate a number of difficult topics including the definition of mental disorders, financial interests in their diagnosis and treatment and controversial therapies. After a scene-setting keynote talk by UK social scientist Nikolas Rose, the conference will address the different issues in four main sessions and panel sessions where the audience and the speakers engage in lively discussions.
Registration deadline: 18:00 CET on 2 October 2011
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
You are welcome to circulate this announcement to interested members and groups within your institute.
We look forward to welcoming you in Heidelberg, Germany.
Alessandra Bendiscioli, EMBO Science & Society Programme (chair)
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ruth Hazlewood.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Email: ruth.hazlewood at embl.de
Programme
Friday, 4th November 08:00-08:50 Registration 08:50-09:00 Welcome address
Iain Mattaj, Director General, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany09:00-10:00 Keynote talk: What is mental health today - psychiatry, neuroscience and society in the twenty first century
Nikolas Rose, Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, London School of Economics, UK10:00-10:30 Coffee break
Session I: Impact and definition of mental illness
Chair: Cornelius Gross, Mouse Biology Unit, EMBL, Monterotondo, Italy10:30-11:15 The size and burden of mental disorders and disorders of the brain
Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy and Center of Epidemiology and Longitudinal Studies (CELOS), Technical University, Dresden, Germany11:15-12:00 On the road to DSM-5: redefining mental illness
David J. Kupfer, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, USA12:00-12:45 Living with Bipolar disorder
Donna Franceschild, Making Waves Films & TV Ltd, UK12:45-14:15 Lunch Session II: The biology of mental illness
Chair: Dusan Bartsch, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany14:15-15:00 Baptists, tauists and the new secularism in Alzheimer’s disease research
Simon Lovestone, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK15:00-15:45 Schizophrenia - from maps to mechanisms to treatments
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany15:45-16:30 Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: more than a cultural construct?
Klaus-Peter Lesch, Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy University of Würzburg, Germany and School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHENS) Maastricht University, The Netherlands
16:30-17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:30 Panel discussion 18:30-20:00 Conference dinner
20:00-20:45 Special Evening Lecture: Decoding consciousness
Geraint Rees, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UKSaturday, 5 November
Session III: Pills, sofas and surgery – ways of treatment
Chair: Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, National Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany09:00-09:45 Finding medicines for brain disorders
Luca Santarelli, CNS Discovery Research, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland09:45-10:30 Current progress in psychotherapy: the example of depression treatment
Mathias Berger, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Freiburg, Germany10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45 Deep brain stimulation for depression: science fact or fiction
Sidney Kennedy, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada11:45-13:00 Panel discussion
Tim Kendall, UK’s National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH), UK
Richard Smith, UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative, UK13:00-14:00 Lunch Session IV: Society and mental illness
Chair: Nikolas Rose, Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, London School of Economics, UK14:00-14:45 Gene-Environment interdependence
Sir Michael Rutter, Developmental Psychopathology, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UK14:45-15:30 Sick brains, sick minds or sick societies? - a continuing debate
Steven Rose, Dept. of Life Sciences, Open University, UK15:30-16:15 Strategies to reduce mental illness stigma and discrimination
Wulf Rössler, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland16:15-17:45 Coffee break 17:45-18:30 Panel discussion 18:30-18:45 Closing remarks
Maria Leptin, Director, EMBO, Heidelberg, Germany