At the annual congress of the Swiss Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SGPP) in the Kursaal in Bern, the concept of the future was the focus of presentations and discussions. InFo NEUROLOGY & PSYCHIATRY presents video recordings of selected keynotes.
The keynotes in detail
Professor Dr. Berger, University: E-mental-Health: Current Status and New Developments
In recent years, a wide range of Internet-based interventions for mental health problems and disorders have been developed. This presentation will provide an overview of the different types of services offered and the current state of research on their effectiveness and acceptance by patients. Specifics, advantages and disadvantages, legal aspects as well as the role of the therapeutic contact and the therapeutic relationship are addressed.
Prof. Dr. Martin Bohus, University of Heidelberg: Modular Psychotherapy – A Model for the Future
Modular psychotherapy includes diverse therapeutic techniques and treatment heurisms. The selection of the respective interventions is based on the given pathomechanisms as well as the individual characteristics of the patient and his social environment. Prof. Bohus presents the historical frame of reference and organizing principles of Modular Psychotherapy and elaborates on a developmental example of a modular approach to complex PTSD.
Prof. Dr. Michael H. Herzog, EPFL Lausanne: Complex Psychiatric Diseases and the Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project studies the brain and its diseases. In the first approach, a realistic model of the brain is recreated based on detailed neuroscience and genetic data. The second is to collect large amounts of data from many aspects of a disease in one data format. The goal is to combine both approaches to link complex genetic and neurophysiological causes of psychiatric diseases with their associated complex phenotypes.
Prof. Dr. David Nutt, Imperial College London: The Future of Psychopharmacology
Advances in psychopharmacology over the past 50 years and the challenges of the next 50 years in the field. Professor Nutt elaborates on the importance this discipline will have in the face of growing competition with expanding scientific fields such as neuroscience genetics and imaging. In English.
Professor Papassotiropoulos presents new approaches to pharmacotherapy of psychiatric disorders. He talks about the use of genomic and epigenomic information in conjunction with new bioinformatics methods and the analysis of data from large-scale cerebral imaging studies.
InFo NEUROLOGY & PSYCHIATRY 2017; 15(6): 42.
