FENS-EPA joint webinar: Psychedelics, the Clinical versus the Neuroscientist’s point of view
Organiser: FENS
Additional Organiser: European Psychiatric Association (EPA)
Attendance type(s): Virtual
Event Dates: 10 May 2023
Registration Deadline: 10 May 2023
The overall environment where patients receive psychedelics is allegedly extremely important, with many possibilities of personalisation: music, paintings, low intensity lights, or the presence of a psychotherapist during the session. Beyond anecdotal experiences, the science behind such proposals and the level of medical evidence supporting these aspects are relatively weak and need more clear descriptions.
Psychedelics have now been tested (usually successfully) in a broad spectrum of psychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder and resistant depression, anorexia nervosa, OCD, PTSD or alcohol use disorder. This makes it difficult to understand what the real psychiatric target of these drugs is.
The first FENS-EPA webinar aims to understand the present indications of psychedelics, and compare their chances of success (effect-size) in the different indications.
When?
- Wednesday, 10 May at 5:30 pm CEST
Programme:
- Welcome and introduction, Prof. Dirk Schubert
- Developing psychedelics for clinical use: how and for whom, Prof. Guy Goodwin
- Neurobiology of psychedelics: what is affected and how, Prof. Emma S J Robinson
- Q&A session, moderated by Prof. Tomáš Páleníček
Meet the moderator & speakers
- Prof. Tomáš Páleníček (CZ), National Institute of Mental Health
- Prof. Guy Goodwin (UK), Compass pathways and University of Oxford
- Prof. Emma S J Robinson (UK), University of Bristol
Registration is now open! Please note there is a limited number of places (first-come, first-served basis).
Event organised jointly by FENS and the European Psychiatric Association (EPA)
Contact Details
Email: chet@fens.org