On Tuesday 13th, a special event is organized for students and the wide audience: "Cerveaux en surchauffe : le stress des étudiants, comprendre, prévenir, agir". Booths, conference, round table. More details
Scientific Program
Tentative schedule
DAY 1 - Wednesday 14 October
From 8:30 - Registration and welcome coffee
9am - Introduction
Plenary lecture
Nim Tottenham
Neural Representations of Early-Life Stress
Session 1 - "The developing brain under stress"
Pierre Gressens
Role of perinatal inflammation in neurodevelopmental disorders
Anthi Krontira
Prenatal excess of glucocorticoids and cortical development in utero
Selected talks
Lunch break
Poster session
3pm - Session 2 - “Stress and the Synapse: Pathways to Adaptation and Resilience”
Ana Luisa Carvalho
Synaptic response to chronic stress
Freddy Jeanneteau
Rewiring stress into resilience
Selected talks
Plenary lecture
Tallie Z. Baram
Modern-life Stress, Estrogen and Memory Disorders: Corrupting plasticity?
Wine and cheese + Poster Sessions
DAY 2 - Thursday 15 October
From 8:30 - Welcome coffee
9am - Session 3 - "Neural Circuits Underlying Stress and Adaptive Behaviors"
Anna Beyler
Neuromodulation of anterior insula neural coding of anxiety: from dopamine to psychedelics
Sébastien Parnaudeau
Mesocorticolimbic Glucocorticoid Receptor shapes social processes and emotion contagion
Rui Rodrigues
Threat processing and adaptation: the role of the endocannabinoid system
Selected talks
Poster session
Lunch break
2pm - Session 4 - ""Impact of Stress on the Brain and Beyond""
Diego Candia-Rivera
Functional brain-heart interactions under sympathetic and parasympathetic elicitation
Eleni Siopi
Gut microbiota and depression: A role for the vagus nerve
Nils Gassen
Neurohomeostasis under Stress: the Crosstalk of Systemic Metabolism and Autophagy in Stress-Related Diseases
Selected talks
Plenary lecture
Carmine Pariante
Stress and Inflammation: at the core of mental health
7:30pm - Gala dinner
DAY 3 - Friday 16 October
From 9am - welcome coffee
9:30am - Session 5 - “Fight the stress- from pharmacology to Mindfulness meditation”
Alex Kwan
Psychedelic drug action: cell types and circuits
Hailan Hu
Decoding depression circuits through the pharmacology of ketamine and psilocybin.
Selected talks
Gael Chetelat
Can Meditation Reduce Psychoaffective Risk and Promote Healthy Brain Aging? Evidence from the Medit-Ageing Trials ?
Plenary lecture
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Environmental risk and resilience for psychiatric disorder - the role of social stress
