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Programme
Summer Course 2016
Tuition fee and Grants
EACIC Accreditation
Special Lectures
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Programme Summer Course on Fear, Anxiety, Obsessions & Trauma 2016 |
From 3 July - 8 July 2016 the International Master in Affective Neuroscience organises the
Summer Course on Fear, Anxiey, Obsessions & Trauma in Florence, Italy.
Please click here for the programme
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Early applications: 15 April 2016
Final applications deadline: 15 May 2016
In the Summer Course on Fear and Anxiety each day is dedicated to a different theme within the field of anxiety at large:
- Anxiety, fear and panic: introducing the concepts
- Panic and vital threats
- Obsessions and compulsions
- Treatment response
- Stress and trauma
The morning sessions are dedicated to the PBL-sessions: workshops during which the students work in small groups on assignments and discussion topics related to the theme of the day. The assignments contain elements of fundamental neuroscience as well as clinical applications. Each group will summarize their results in a presentation at the plenary session on Friday. |
Tuition fees and grants 2016 - 2017 |
The tuition fees for the next academic year, starting with the Summer Course, are published on the website. Note that the tuition fee can only be paid by bank transfer. |
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This year FENS and IBRO-PERC provide 4 stipends of €750 for master and/or PhD students interested in attending thisyear's course. Through these stipends FENS and IBRO-PERC aim to encourage and promote international experience of students;
hence, students that are currently residing or studying in the
Netherlands and Italy are not eligible for a FENS and IBRO-PERC stipend for this course. |
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Also 1 Spinoza grant of €1000 will be awarded. This grant is made available by EACIC. Send in your application before 15 April 2016 |
Accreditation EACIC: CME credits |
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The European Accreditation Committee in CNS (EACIC) has accredited the Summer Course on Fear, Anxiety, Obsessions & Trauma with 34 CME credits.
Those interested in obtaining the credits need to fill out an online evaluation form on the eacic website after the course. For more information, visit the website of EACIC: www.eacic.eu/.. |
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Special lectures during the Summer Course on Fear, Anxiety, Obsessions and Trauma 3 - 8 July 2016
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Each Summer Course, we present lectures and workshops by our own faculty but also a series of guest lectures by esteemed scientists from all over the world. The following lectures will be presented this year.
For the ECNP Lecture, we welcome Prof Guy Goodwin (Oxford). Prof. Odile van den Heuvel (Amsterdam), prof. Sean Hood (Perth) and Prof. Dean Mobbs) will each give a special lecture.
Prof Fiametta Cosci (Florence) will give the AFN Board lecture.The abstracts of the lectures will follow soon.
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Prof Guy Goodwin (Oxford):
Guy Goodwin, DPhil, FMedSci is currently a Senior Research Fellow and was until 2014 WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. His research interests are in the treatment of bipolar disorder and the application of neuroscience in understanding the neurobiology of mood disorders, with a focus on developing new treatments. He also works with industry in developing translational models of psychotropic drug action in man.
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Prof Odile van den Heuvel (Amsterdam):
Odile A. van den Heuvel, MD PhD, is psychiatrist and professor Neuropsychiatry at the VU university medical center (VUmc) in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Her clinical work mainly concerns neuropsychiatric disfunctions in neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. She leads the research section Neuropsychiatry (at the department of Anatomy & Neurosciences, VUmc / Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam). Her projects center around the interaction between emotion and cognition, using translational clinical neuroscience approaches, mainly focusing on fronto-striatal disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (and other anxiety disorders), Parkinson's disease, and Tourette's syndrome. Odile van den Heuvel leads the ENIGMA-OCD working group, within the international imaging-genetics consortium ENIGMA.
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Prof Fiammetta Cosci (Florence):
Fiammetta Cosci is a psychiatrist and an associate professor at the Department of Health Sciences of the University of Florence. Her research activities focus on the role of nicotine in the pathogenesis of panic and on the staging model of psychiatric disorders.
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Prof Sean Hood (Perth):
Sean Hood is a Psychiatry Professor and Head of the UWA School of Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences.
His research focusses on the psychopharmacology of mood and anxiety disorders.
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Prof Dean Mobbs (New York):
Dean Mobbs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University in New York. His research is inspired by insights from behavioural ecology, social and clinical psychology and endeavors to understand the central determinants of the human emotional experience. He employs brain imaging and behavioural techniques to examine the neurobiological systems that coordinate fear in humans.
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http://affect-neuroscience.org
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