IN THIS ISSUE
Looking back on Summer Course 2015
Looking forward to Summer Course 2016
New Board Member
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Looking Back ...
Summer Course on Mood, Aggression & Attraction 2015
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The academic year of our Master in Affective Neuroscience started succesfully past July with the Summer Course on Mood, Aggression & Attraction. We welcomed 34 participants and lecturers from 10 different countries!
We would like to thank our guest lecturers for enriching our course with their presence, and also our thanks to our directors for their efforts to meet and mingle with the students.
Congratulations to our students who succesfully defended their Master Thesis during this Summer Course: Ricardo Coentre (Portugal), Giuseppe Guerriero and Davide Prestia (both from Italy)
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Two students about the Summer Course 2015 |
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María Eugenia Riveros (Chile):
I am very grateful to be part of the master experience. I feel that I have learned very far beyond acquiring knowledge. The lectures are very good, with first line lecturers which are available to talk with. What enriches the experience most is the possibility to use the space of reflection opened by the lecture to have an intense team work experience with people with very different backgrounds. This is what should happen more between people from psychiatry, psychology , neurobiology and other professionals working in mental health related issues. As a neurobiologist working in animal models of mental diseases I decided to take this master to have an idea of actual problems in psychiatry, but I have had much more from it than I have realized. If I want my work to have an impact on people's lives, collaborating with clinicians is essential for me. However, for this basic neuroscientists and clinicians need to develop a common understanding. In my opnion, this is one of the most important aspects of the AFN Summer Course. I am very happy to see that people from all over the world gather for the course and I hope that many more will follow!
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Richard Clarke (Australia):
This year I attended the Summer Course in Florence, and had a truly great time there. I am a doctor in training in psychiatry in Australia, and had heard about the excellence of the course from my supervisor, Professor Hood, and about the experiences that it offered. The course included lectures by prominent psychiatrists and researchers, as well as small group workshops in which we designed experiments and later presented our work. In addition, we were able to observe research presentations from students undertaking the Masters Degree in Affective Neuroscience.
During the course I met students from a variety of psychiatry, psychology, and research backgrounds. We discussed different ideas and areas of interest, and as well as this had ample opportunity to interact socially and explore the cultural sights of Florence in the evenings.
Overall, I feel the summer course exceeded my expectations – in addition to the excellent course content I met leading researchers, made some great friendships and gained valuable insight into international directions in the field of Neuroscience. I would definitely recommend the course, and look forward to attending again next year!
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... and Looking Forward
Summer Course on Fear, Anxiety, Obsessions & Trauma 2016
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3 July - 8 July 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
- Social anxiety
- 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. Each group will summarize their
results in a poster, that is to be presented at the plenary session on
Friday. The assignments contain elements of fundamental neuroscience as
well as clinical applications.
We are currently finalizing the programme. Keep an eye on our website for updates on our next Summer Course.
The course is open to psychiatrists and psychologists, holders of an MSc degree in behavioural or related sciences, or an MD degree. The course can be taken as a 'stand alone' course or as part of the Master in Affective Neuroscience. For more information and applications, visit our website.
Early applications: 15 April 2016
Final applications deadline: 15 May 2016
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Welcome to our New Board Member
Sean Hood, University of Western Australia
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Sean Hood undertook his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Western Australia before completing formal postgraduate training in Psychiatry in Perth (Australia) and Bristol (United Kingdom) in 2003. Since 1999 he has worked with Professor David Nutt’s Psychopharmacology Unit at the University of Bristol / Imperial College and continues to collaborate with members of this group closely.
It was in Bristol that Sean first began investigating serotonergic systems in clinical anxiety disorders using the acute tryptophan depletion (ATD) technique and other challenges, and this body of work was the focus of his Master Degree in Affective Neuroscience – Sean was in the very first group of graduates of the complete Master Degree in 2003. Subsequently, he returned to Perth setting up a Clinical Psychopharmacology laboratory as a clinical academic in the University of Western Australia’s Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences Unit in the Faculty of Medicine. Additionally, he worked for 5 years as a General Practice Liaison Psychiatrist in Bentley, Perth.
Sean has been Chair of the Australian Pristiq Advisory Board and a member of the Australian Cymbalta & Vortioxetine Advisory Boards. He is a psychiatrist in academic, public, and private practice. His public practice includes two days per week as Psychiatrist to a busy tertiary hospital Emergency Department, although in mid 2015 he will becomes the inaugural head of a Treatment Resistant Anxiety & Mood Disorders (TRAMD) unit at this site.
Sean maintains an active engagement in medical student education, running the 6th year Psychiatry MBBS program at UWA and chairing the Systems Committee of the new UWA MD Programme prior to implementation in 2014.
He is currently Professor and Head of the UWA School of Psychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences.
His personal positive experience with the Master has motivated Sean to send a steady stream of students from Perth, Australia over the past decade, two of whom are both current students of the course who work with him clinically in the new TRAMD unit in Perth. Together with Chairman of the Board Koen Schruers, Sean recently undertook signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between our respective universities with a specified focus on affective neuroscience – we plan to build upon our promising beginnings in promoting academic excellence in this field. |
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