Congress of psychiatry

Future of nursing: an underutilized global force to 
address and promote mental health
Chairs: 
Arno Deister, Germany 
André Nienaber, Germany 
Susanne Schoppmann, Switzerland
Speakers: 
Edilma L. Yearwood, USA 
Vicki Hines-Martin, USA
Award Ceremony: 
DGPPN Award for Nursing and Health Professions in 
Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
Laudation: 
Arno Deister, Germany
KN-17 
Keynote Lecture
11:45 – 12:45
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Hall A2
 
TOPIC 37:
 Stigma and mental health
Responding to the catastrophic reduction of life 
expectancy among psychiatric patients
Chairs: 
Frank Schneider, Germany 
Frank Jacobi, Germany
Speaker: 
Peter Lehmann, Germany
ST-12 (d) 
State-of-the-Art-Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Hall A8
 
TOPIC 2:
 Mental disorders due to psychotropic 
substances, behavioural addictions
 
Verhaltensabhängigkeiten
Chairs: 
Tagrid Leménager, Germany 
Astrid Müller, Germany
001
  Das virtuelle Selbst – Ätiologie, neurobiologi-
sche Korrelate sowie therapeutische Implikationen 
zur Internetsucht
Tagrid Leménager, Germany
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 Kaufsucht
Astrid Müller, Germany
PC-05 (d) 
Pro-Con-Debate
11:45 – 13:15
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Hall Helsinki 2
 
TOPIC 26:
 Ethics and philosophy
 
Offene Psychiatrie – die Lösung aller Probleme?
Chairs: 
Christian Kieser, Germany 
Tilman Steinert, Germany
Proponent: 
Karl H. Beine, Germany
Opponent: 
Thomas Pollmächer, Germany
DF-03 (d) 
Discussion Forum
11:45 – 13:45
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Hall Berlin 1
 
TOPIC 27:
 Religion and spirituality
 
Existentielle Trauer – ein Trialog zwischen den 
Weltreligionen, Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
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 DGPPN Section: Religiosität und Spiritualität
Chairs: 
Isgard Ohls, Germany 
Michael Utsch, Germany
001
  Umgang mit Verlust und Trauer im Islam
Ibrahim Rüschoff, Germany
002
  Ars moriendi et vivendi: Trauer aus christlich- 
jüdischer Perspektive
Isgard Ohls, Germany
003
  Der Mensch als Edelstein – die Perspektive der 
Bahai
Hamid Peseschkian, Germany
004
  Die Perspektive der Konfessionslosen und  
Atheisten
Peter Kaiser, Germany
005
  Umgang mit Verlust und Trauer im Buddhismus
Ulrike Anderssen-Reuster, Germany
S-146 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Hall New York 1
 
TOPIC 9:
 Comorbidity of somatic and mental disorders, 
psychosomatics
Psychiatric disorders and the autonomic nervous 
system – autonomic changes in disease, with medi-
cation, exercise, relaxation and music
Chairs: 
Katharina Hösl, Germany 
Karl-Jürgen Bär, Germany
001
  Principles of cardiovascular autonomic testing 
and autonomic changes in psychiatric disorders
Katharina Hösl, Germany
002
  Central autonomic modulation and effects of 
anticipatory stress, emotional stimulation, music 
and nonmedical interventions
Max Josef Hilz, United Kingdom
003
  Physical exercise as a key interventional 
approach to impact on autonomic dysfunction in 
psychiatric patients
Karl-Jürgen Bär, Germany

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S-160 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Hall Helsinki 1
 
TOPIC 14:
 Neurobiology and genetics
Personalized medicine in psychiatry: where are we 
now?
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 WPA Section: Personalized Psychiatry
Chairs: 
Giampaolo Perna, Italy 
Thomas E. Schläpfer, Germany
001
  Mechanisms of action of antidepressants: 
implications for personalized treatment?
Alan F. Schatzberg, USA
002
  Using multimodal predictors for antidepressant 
treatment response – from neuroimaging to genet-
ics and epigenetics
Elisabeth Binder, Germany
003
  Using a nonhuman primate model of anxiety to 
inform the development of personalized treatments
Ned H. Kalin, USA
S-161 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Hall London 1
 
TOPIC 24:
 Forensic psychiatry and assessment
Culpability, mind and brain
Chairs: 
Kolja Schiltz, Germany 
Jürgen L. Müller, Germany
001
  Biological aspects of individual and collective 
violence
Bernhard Bogerts, Germany
002
  Fritz Haarman – a life between psychiatric 
assessments
Jürgen L. Müller, Germany
003
  Reflections on the concept of criminal culpability
Reinhard Merkel, Germany
004
  Free will between genes, brain and environment
Pietro Pietrini, Italy
S-162 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Hall Paris 1
 
TOPIC 4:
 Affective disorders
Toward stratified treatments for bipolar disorders
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 WPA Section: Affective Disorders
Chairs: 
Gregor Hasler, Switzerland 
Kamilla Miskowiak, Denmark
001
  What is bipolar disorder? Bridging the gap 
between DSM-5 and Research Domain Criteria
Gregor Hasler, Switzerland
002
  The neurogenetic risk architecture of bipolar 
disorder
Henrik Walter, Germany
003
  How far we are from a personalized treatment 
in bipolar disorders?
Andrea Murru, Spain
004
  Cognitive enhancement for patients with bipolar 
disorder
Kamilla Miskowiak, Denmark
S-163 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
 | 
Hall Paris 2
 
TOPIC 33:
 Rural and urban mental health
Psychiatric emergencies – a worldwide challenge
›
 DGPPN Section: Emergency Psychiatry
Chairs: 
Thomas Messer, Germany 
Frank-Gerald Pajonk, Germany
001
  Psychiatric emergencies – an overview
Frank-Gerald Pajonk, Germany
002
  Agitation in psychiatric emergencies
Georg Juckel, Germany
Paraskevi Mavrogiorgou
003
  Pharmacotherapy of psychiatric emergencies
Thomas Messer, Germany
004
  Suicidality in psychiatric emergencies
Barbara Schneider, Germany
S-164 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
 | 
Hall New York 3
 
TOPIC 28:
 History, art and cultural sciences
Confronting psychiatry during the Nazi period –  
a concluded chapter?
Chairs: 
Maike Rotzoll, Germany 
Volker Roelcke, Germany
001
  Resources for each other – the Society of 
German Neurologists and Psychiatrists and Nazi 
biopolitics
Hans-Walter Schmuhl, Germany
002
  Give them back a part of their dignity – research 
on the victims of patients' murder (“Euthanasia”) and 
its significance for understanding national socialist 
psychiatry
Maike Rotzoll, Germany
003
  Brain tissues as a legacy of Nazi psychiatry and 
their post-war use, 1940 – 2000
Paul Weindling, United Kingdom

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 Q & A  Modul
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  Psychiatric dissertations between 1930 and 
1960: programs and practices of “normal” research 
at university psychiatric departments during the 
Nazi period and beyond
Volker Roelcke, Germany
S-165 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room  M2 / M3
TOPIC 14:
 Neurobiology and genetics
Synapses as sensors of environmental changes and 
molecular dysfunction  
(Symposium of the Leopoldina German Nation-
al Academy of Sciences in Memoriam Michael 
Frotscher)
Chairs: 
Gabriele Rune, Germany 
Peter Falkai, Germany
001
  Synaptic defects in autism spectrum disorders 
– focus on neuroligins at inhibitory synapses
Nils Brose, Germany
002
  Synaptic autoimmunity in neuropsychiatric 
diseases
Dietmar Schmitz, Germany
003
  Releasing the cortical synaptic brake?  
rTMS-induced synaptic plasticity
Andreas Vlachos, Germany
S-166 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
 | 
Room  M4 / M5
TOPIC 28:
 History, art and cultural sciences
Artists as victims and survivors of National 
Socialism – commemoration in Germany and the 
challenges today
Chairs: 
Andreas Spengler, Germany 
Thomas Röske, Germany
001
  Artists as victims of National Socialism:  
life, oevre, and commemoration
Thomas Röske, Germany
002
  Artists as survivors in the post-war period:  
life, oevre, and commemoration
Andreas Spengler, Germany
003
  Art in psychiatric context or so called outsider 
art: the international perspective
Marc Steene, United Kingdom
S-167 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
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Room M1
TOPIC 2:
 Mental disorders due to psychotropic 
substances, behavioural addictions
Therapy of alcohol use disorders: an introduction to 
varying interventions in different nations
Chairs: 
Michael Köhnke, Germany 
Christian G. Schütz, Canada
001
  Alcohol use disorder: treatment in Canada
Christian G. Schütz, Canada
002
  Alcohol use disorder: treatment in Spain
Francina Fonseca, Spain
003
  Advances in the treatment of alcohol: the UK 
experience
Mohammed Abou-Saleh, United Kingdom
004
  The treatment of alcohol use disorder in Germany
Michael Köhnke, Germany
S-168 Symposium
11:45 – 13:15
 | 
Room M8
TOPIC 16:
 Diagnostics and classification, 
psychopathology, RDoC
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): an international 
perspective on symptom variation, comorbidity, suicid-
ality and pharmacotherapy
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 WPA Section: Anxiety & Obsessive Compulsive 
Disorders
Chair: 
Vlasios Brakoulias, Australia
001
  Cross-cultural aspects of obsessive-compulsive 
disorder (OCD) symptomatology
Hisato Matsunaga, Japan
002
  Disorders co-occurring with obsessive-compul-
sive disorder: patterns and implications for clinical 
practice
Vladan Starcevic, Australia
003
  Obsessive-compulsive disorder and suicidality
Donatella Marazziti, Italy
004
  Cross-cultural variations in the prescription of 
pharmacological agents for obsessive-compulsive 
disorder
Vlasios Brakoulias, Australia
FS-09 
Further Session
12:00 – 13:00
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Room R2
 
Lesungen
001
  Das gelungene Ich
Hans-Otto Thomashoff, Austria

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 Bewohner
Christof Held, Switzerland
003
 SUICIDE
Stefan Lange, Switzerland
FS-10 
Further Session
12:00 – 13:00
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Room R3
Author readings
001
  Coming off psychiatric drugs – chapter “A  
Couple's Slow Awakening”
Jim Maddock, Ireland 
Mary Maddock, Ireland
002
  Remembrance of Things Present – making 
peace with Dementia
Peter Maeck, USA
KN-18 (d) 
Keynote Lecture
13:30 – 14:30
 | 
Hall B
 
TOPIC 10:
 Gerontopsychiatry
 
Verletzlichkeit und Reife im hohen Alter  
– Perspektiven der Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie 
des Alters
Chairs: 
Arno Deister, Germany 
Iris Hauth, Germany
Speaker: 
Andreas Kruse, Germany
KN-19 
Keynote Lecture
13:30 – 14:30
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Hall  A6 / A7
 
TOPIC 12:
 Epidemiology and risk factors
The shared risk factors for homicides, suicides and 
mental health disorders in large urban population
Chairs: 
Lakshmi Vijayakumar, India 
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Germany
Speaker: 
Jair de Jesus Mari, Brazil
KN-20 
Keynote Lecture
13:30 – 14:30
 | 
Hall A4
 
TOPIC 38:
 Human Rights
Overcoming the psychiatric gaze? Reconsidering the 
history of psychiatry in the light of the UNCRPD
Chairs: 
Michael Seidel, Germany 
Thomas Bock, Germany
Speaker: 
Elena Demke, Germany
ME-04 Meet-the-Expert
13:30 – 14:30
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Room  M2 / M3
TOPIC 4:
 Affective disorders
Pathomechanisms, prediction and prevention of 
anxiety – a personalized story
Chairs: 
Oliver Schubert, Australia 
Berend Malchow, Germany
Speaker: 
Katharina Domschke, Germany
ST-13 State-of-the-Art-Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
 | 
Hall A5
 
TOPIC 3:
 Psychotic disorders
Recognizing and diagnosing autoimmune  
encephalitis
Chairs: 
Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Germany 
Josef Priller, Germany
001
  Psychosis and antibodies to synaptic receptors
Josep Dalmau, Spain
002
  Antibody findings in psychiatric patients – a 
critical analysis of the state-of-the-art
Angela Vincent, United Kingdom
ST-14 (d) 
State-of-the-Art-Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
 | 
Hall A1
 
TOPIC 6:
 Eating disorders, sleep disorders and other 
disorders of this category
 
Essstörungen
Chairs: 
Iris Pollmann, Germany 
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Germany
001
  Bulimia nervosa, Binge-Eating Störung, Night- 
Eating-Syndrom und Adipositas
Iris Pollmann, Germany
002
  Anorexia nervosa – State-of-the-Art
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Germany
S-169 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
 | 
Hall A8
 
TOPIC 13:
 Brain imaging, neurophysiology, 
neuropsychology
Big data in psychiatric imaging
Chairs: 
Frank Schneider, Germany 
Peter Fox, USA
001
  PING – Psychiatric Imaging Network Germany
Klaus Mathiak, Germany
002
  IMAGEN study
Gunter Schumann, United Kingdom
003
  Human Brain Project
Ferath Kerif, Switzerland

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  Brain Map project
Peter Fox, USA
S-170 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall A2
 
TOPIC 8:
 Disorders closely related to childhood and 
adolescence
Advances in ADHD research
›
 WPA Section: ADHD
Chairs: 
Joseph Biederman, USA 
Gagan Joshi, USA
001
  Deficient emotional self-regulation in the con-
text of ADHD
Joseph Biederman, USA
002
  Optimizing ADHD treatment, focus on patient 
needs
Javier Quintero, Spain
003
  Clinical and neuropsychological predictors of 
methylphenidate response in children and adoles-
cents with ADHD: a naturalistic follow-up study in  
a Spanish sample
Cesar Soutullo, Spain
María Vallejo-Valdivielso, Pilar de Castro-Manglano, 
Juan J. Marín-Méndez, Azucena Díez-Suárez
004
  TOVA evaluation of children adolescents and 
adults: does impairment progress?
Iris Manor, Israel
S-171 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall Helsinki 1
 
TOPIC 3:
 Psychotic disorders
Schizophrenia and adolescence: contribution and 
mechanisms of late developmental disturbances to-
wards expression of psychosis and cognitive deficits
Chairs: 
Peter Uhlhaas, United Kingdom 
Eva Meisenzahl-Lechner, Germany
001
  The development of neural synchrony and 
large-scale cortical networks during adolescence: 
relevance for the pathophysiology of schizophrenia 
and neurodevelopmental hypothesis
Peter Uhlhaas, United Kingdom
002
  Reciprocal disruptions in cortico-thalamic and 
hippocampal resting-state functional connectivity in 
youth with 22q11 deletion syndrome
Alan Anticevic, USA
003
  Postnatal development of excitatory and inhibi-
tory synaptic transmission in prefrontal cortex
Guillermo Gonzalez Burgos, United Kingdom
004
  Childhood-onset psychosis: insights from neu-
roimaging studies
Nitin Gogtay, USA
S-172 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall Helsinki 2
 
TOPIC 28:
 History, art and cultural sciences
Psychopathology and creativity
Chairs: 
Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla, Germany 
Thomas Fuchs, Germany
001
  Robert Schumann's psychopathology: a synthesis 
of biological, psychological and social perspectives 
with creativity research
Asimina Koutsoukou-Argyraki, Germany
002
  Art and As-If: anthropological foundations of 
art-therapies
Thomas Fuchs, Germany
003
  Creativity and schizoaffective disorders – the 
case of Vincent van Gogh
Andrés Heerlein, Chile
004
  The myth of genius and madness enacted in 
modern pop-music
Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla, Germany
S-173 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall Paris 1
 
TOPIC 17:
 Psychotherapy
Which prospects of psychiatric and psychothera-
peutic care are there for refugees and internally 
displaced people (IDP) in East Africa?
Chairs: 
Joachim Cordes, Germany 
Solomon Tshimong Rataemane, South Africa
001
  This painful gap has to be closed! About the 
challenge to develop, adapt, evaluate and dissemi-
nate adequate psychotherapeutic interventions in 
African low-income countries
Michael Odenwald, Germany
David Musyimi Ndetei
002
  Psychiatric advanced training for non-physician 
clinicians in Ethiopia
Andrea Jobst, Germany
Kristina Adorjan
003
  Psychotherapeutic interventions regarding 
trauma and violence in Burundi
Anselm Crombach, Germany
004
  Evaluation of an internet-based intervention 
for the treatment of depression in people from the 
Arabic language area: a pragmatic trial
Jana Stein, Germany

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S-174 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall Paris 2
 
TOPIC 3:
 Psychotic disorders
Early recognition and intervention of psychosis
Chairs: 
Mathias Zink, Germany 
Paolo Fusar-Poli, United Kingdom
001
  The clinical high risk state for psychosis: chal-
lenges for the next generation of research
Paolo Fusar-Poli, United Kingdom
002
  Abnormal structural and functional brain imag-
ing during the early course of psychosis
Stefan Borgwardt, Switzerland
003
  Cognitive and metacognitive deficits in the at 
risk mental state for psychosis
Mathias Zink, Germany
004
  Cognitive behavioural therapy for patients with 
increased risk for psychosis
Mark van der Gaag, The Netherlands
S-175 Symposium
13:30 – 15:00
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Hall New York 1
 
TOPIC 22:
 Community and social psychiatry