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Preliminary Programme
Summer Course 2020
Special lectures Summer Course 2020
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AGENDA
17 - 21 FEB 2020:
Winter Seminars, Maastricht
28 JUNE - 03 JUL 2020:
Summer Course, Florence
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Summer Course on Fear, Anxiety, Obsessions & Trauma 2020
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From 28 June to 3 July 2020 the Summer School on Affective Neuroscience organises the
Summer Course on Fear, Anxiety, Obsessions & Trauma in Florence, Italy.
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Early applications: 15 April 2019
Final applications deadline: 15 May 2019
The Summer Course on Anxiety aims at an in-depth analysis of the latest developments in the field of anxious pathology, including phenomena that are related to anxiety and fear such as trauma, obsessions and compulsions. In addition to the introductory lectures the course includes guest lectures to broaden the horizon of our students beyond our regular teaching programme. You will find more info about the guest lecturer this year below.
It is aimed at young scientists and clinicians with a background in psychology, medicine, neuroscience, behavioural sciences, or a related discipline, who want to enhance their expertise in affective disorders.
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.
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| Tuition fees and grants 2020 |
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Tuition fees
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 or online.
Grants
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This year FENS and IBRO-PERC provide 4 stipends for master and/or PhD students interested in attending this year'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.
More information will follow soon.
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One Spinoza grant of €1000 will be awarded. This grant is made available by EACIC. Send in your application before 15 April 2020.
This grant is intended for highly motivated young scientists with limited resources, who receive no other financial support.
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Special lectures during the Summer Course
In 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.
This year we would like to welcome:
- Elisabeth Binder (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich). The title of her lecture wiil be: "Affective psychopathology"
- Isabel Diozbek (Humboldt University of Berlin). The title of her lecture wiil be: "From training the brain to be social: lessons to be learnt from autism"
- Erno Hermans (Radboud University, Nijmegen). The title of his lecture wiil be: "Neurobiology of fear and trauma memory"
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Elisabeth Binder has studied Medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria and Neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. Following a postdoctoral training at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, she returned to Emory University as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Human Genetics. In 2007, she was appointed as research group leader at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry within the Minerva Program of the Max-Planck Society.
Since August 2013, Elisabeth Binder is the director of the Department of Translational Research in Psychiatry at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry. She also holds an appointment as Full Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. Her main research interests are the identification of molecular moderators of the response to environmental factors, with a focus on early trauma and gene x environment interactions. She studies how such factors influence trajectories to psychiatric disease or well-being to ultimately use this information for novel prevention and treatment strategies.
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Isabel Dziobek’s interests and works lie in the field of social cognition as well as social cognitive and affective neuroscience, focusing on empathy, emotion processing, and mindreading processes. She has been conducting studies in clinical populations involving social dysfunction such as autism and borderline personality disorder. As an experimental psychologist and psychotherapist (CBT) she is interested in both, understanding the mechanisms of (dis)order in social information processing and in the development of treatment options for those with respective impairments. The methods that she uses encompass movement and video-based tests and trainings of social cognition, structural and functional MRI, eye tracking, and peripheral physiology measures such as skin conductance and heart rate assessments.
Dr. Dziobek got her diploma in Psychology from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and continued to do a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience at the New York University School of Medicine from 2001-2005, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. From 2009-2014 she headed the junior research group “Understanding Interaffectivity” at Freie Universit Berlin and since 2014 she has been Professor at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has published more than 100 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, has conducted numerous multicenter third-party funded studies and received several awards for her work, among others the prestigious Charlotte and Karl-Bühler Price of the German Society for Pychology in 2014.
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Erno Hermans' research group conducts human research at the interface of basic neuroscience and psychiatry, with a focus on understanding how exposure to stressors results in short-term and long-term (mal)adaptation. He combines human functional neuroimaging with endocrine measures, autonomic psychophysiology, pharmacological manipulations, genetics, and experimental behavioral paradigms, in both healthy volunteers and patients, with the ultimate goal to advance understanding, treatment, and prevention of stress-related psychopathology. He currently holds a position as Associate Professor at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and Radboud university medical center. He was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for a project entitled STRESNET: Stress resilience and network feedback training. This project aims to develop new strategies to prevent negative consequences of stress exposure. He is also a collaborator and work package leader on a European Horizon 2020 consortium project named DynaMORE: Dynamic Modeling of Resilience, which aims to develop computer models to predict and promote mental well-being.
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http://affect-neuroscience.org
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