Description
This unique event will bring together world leaders in research on depression, to discuss both classical and innovative ideas to understand this devastating disorder.
The specific theme of the event is whether depression can still be described as a simple disorder of the brain, or rather conceptualised as a series of behavioural and biological changes that spans mind, brain, body and affects both psychological and physical health.
The event will focus in particular on some of the most exciting recent work on the role of inflammation, gut and stress hormones in the development of depression, and how this could help us to improve the lives people suffering with this disorder.
key speakers:
Prof Andrew Miller, global expert in biological research of depression.
Prof Ed Bullmore, author of the book “The inflamed mind”.
topics include:
Better insight of when physical health can lead to development of depression and underweight on mental health
Appreciate the link between inflammation and depression and its role for novel therapeutic strategies
Biological mechanisms behind the link between stress and depression
rates
Early bird rates available until Tuesday 8th January 2019
RSM member: £35 – £85
Non-member: £45 – £155
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agenda
8.30 am
Registration, tea and coffee
9.00 am
Welcome and Introduction
Dr Valeria Mondelli, King’s College London
When the depression comes from your body
Dr Valeria Mondelli
9.15 am
How your weight affects your mood
Professor Lucile Capuron, University of Bordeaux, France
9.45 am
How your heart affects your mood
Professor Andrew Steptoe, Head, Department of Behavioural Science and Health. Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London
10.15 am
How your gut affects your mood
Professor Ted Dinan, University of Cork Ireland
10.45 am
Questions and answers
11.00 am
Tea and coffee break
Inflammation and depression
Chair to be confirmed
11.30 am
The role of inflammation in the onset of depression
Dr Neil Harrison, Brighton
12.00 pm
Targeting inflammation to treat depression
Professor Ed Bullmore, Cambridge University
12.30 pm
Inflammation as biomarker for depression
Professor Carmine M Pariante, King’s College London
1.00 pm
Questions and answers
1.15 pm
Lunch
Stress hormones and depression
Professor Allan Young, King’s College London
2.00pm
The link between cortisol and depression
Professor Ian Goodyer, Cambridge University
2.30 pm
Cortisol as a biomarker for depression
Professor Anthony Cleare, King’s College London
3.00 pm
Targeting the HPA axis to treat depression
Speaker to be confirmed
3.30 pm
Questions and answers
3.45 pm
Tea and coffee break
Keynote lecture
Professor Carmine M Pariante
4.00 pm
Therapeutic implications of brain-immune interactions: Treatment in translation
Professor Andrew H Miller, William P Timmie Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
4.45 pm
Questions and answers
4.55 pm
Closing remarks
Professor Carmine M Pariante
5.00 pm
Close of meeting