This one-day conference will examine how recent scientific advances in our understanding of anxiety can inform psychological and drug treatments for anxiety.
The programme highlights translational research in human anxiety and includes talks from leading academics and clinicians in UK psychiatry, clinical psychology, experimental psychology and neuroscience.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Elaine Fox, University of Oxford: “Exploring the cognitive and genetic mechanisms associated with vulnerability to anxiety ”
Professor Graham Davey, University of Sussex: “Mechanisms of pathological worrying: What can studies in the lab tell us about anxiety disorders?”
Dr Sam Chamberlain, University of Cambridge: “Cognitive and imaging endopheno types of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders”
Additional presentations, including:
Professor David Baldwin, Psychiatry, University of Southampton: “What’s new in the revised BAP guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders?”
Dr Lusia Stopa, Clinical Psychology, University of Southampton: “Seeing is believing: images and the self in social anxiety and other disorders”
Dr Julie Hadwin, University of Southampton. “Studying cognition and emotion in child and adolescent anxiety: process and application”
Dr Matt Garner, University of Southampton: “Experimental human models of anxiety for treatment development”
Posters: email your abstract to [email protected] (max. 400 words; deadline 11 August 2014)
To register click here: http://go.soton.ac.uk/5z2.
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