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4th INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON MOOD

AND ANXIETY DISORDERS

NOVEMBER 19-21, 2003 - MONTE-CARLO

 

CHAIRMAN

Siegfried Kasper (Austria)

CO- CHAIRMAN

Stuart A. Montgomery (United Kingdom)

SCIENTIFIC ADVISERS

Christer Allgulander (Sweden)- A. Carlo Altamura (Italy) - David Baldwin (United Kingdom) - Graham Burrows (Australia) -Joseph Calabrese (USA) -Giovanni B. Cassano (Italy) - William F. Deakin (United Kingdom) - Koen Demyttenaere (Belgium) - Elias Eriksson (Sweden) - Teruhiko Higuchi (Japan) - Robert M.A. Hirschfeld (USA) - Sidney H. Kennedy (Canada) – Jean-Pierre Lépine (France) - Mario Maj (Italy) - Julien Mendlewicz (Belgium) - Hans-Jürgen Möller (Germany) - Franz Müller-Spahn (Switzerland) - Philippe H. Robert (France) - Alan F. Schatzberg (USA) - Dan J. Stein (South Africa) - Trisha Suppes (USA) - Eduard Vieta (Spain) - Lars von Knorring (Sweden) - Shigeto Yamawaki (Japan) - Joseph Zohar (Israel)

PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

New bipolar antidepressants

  • Are atypical antipsychotics antidepressants?
  • Switch rates of mania. Fact or fiction?
  • Long treatment of bipolar depression
  • Lamotrigine in bipolar depression

New treatment for resistant or refractory depression

  • Combination of antidepressants in resistant depression
  • Augmentation of SSRIs with antipsychotics
  • SNRIs in resistant depression
  • Algorithm in resistant depression

New Treatments for GAD

  • Fast onset of response in GAD
  • SSRIs and escitalopram in GAD
  • Pregabaline compared with other anxiolytics in GAD
  • Discontinuation symptoms in depression and anxiety disorder

Neuropeptides in Depression and Anxiety

  • Substance P antagonists in depression and CINV
  • Where are the CRF antagonists going?
  • Is the development program of CCK antagonists finished?
  • New results with nemifitide

Mood states in psychotic disorder

  • The treatment of psychotic mania
  • Is delusional depression a separate target?
  • The treatment of depression within schizophrenia
  • Suicide prevention in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders

Controlling Placebo

  • Placebo trials in depression and anxiety
  • Rater training, certification and other myths
  • Better monitoring, better patients
  • Severity increase assay sensitivity

Do we treat syndromes or diseases?

  • Epidemiology of depression and anxiety comorbidity
  • Neurobiology of depression and anxiety
  • SSRIs in depression, what’s new?
  • SSRIs in anxiety disorders
  • New results of antipsychotics in mania
  • Risperidone in mania
  • Quetiapine in mania
  • Olanzapine in mania
  • Ziprasidone in mania

 

 

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING SECRETARIAT

PUBLI CREATIONS – Partner of AIM

27, Bld d’Italie

98000 Monte-Carlo (Monaco)

Ph + 377 97973555 - Fax + 377 97973550

E-mail: ifmad@publicreations.com

Website: www.aim-internationalgroup.com/2003/ifmad

FORUM VENUE

Monte-Carlo Grand Hotel

12, Av. des Spélugues

98000 Monte-Carlo (Monaco)

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