Timetable

Plenary Symposium Sponsored Symposium Free Communication Poster Session

Wednesday, 25 August 2010
16:00	01Registration Open
17:30		03Opening Ceremony and Welcome Reception Welcome by Local Organising Committee, Onno C Meijer Welcome by International Society for the Investigation of Stress, President, Robb Stanley Welcome by International Society for the Investigation of Stress, Co-chair,, Graham Burrows AO KCSJ Welcome by the Rector of Leiden University The Future of STRESS presentation, Ron de Kloet
18:30
19:30

Thursday, 26 August 2010
08:30	04Presidential Address Zaal 4/5 Chair Graham Burrows To Stress or Not to Stress - That is the Question Dr Robb Stanley, Royal Society of Victoria, Australia
09:00	05Why do Glucocorticoid Levels Oscillate? Zaal 4/5 Chair Ron E de Kloet Division of Medical Pharmacology, LACDR/LUMC, Leiden University The Netherlands Why do glucocorticoid levels oscillate? Prof Stafford Lightman, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
09:30	06Survival Through Surveillance: How Stress Affects Amygdala-Mediated Vigilance Zaal 4/5 Chair Dr Karin Roelofs Leiden University The Netherlands Survival through surveillance: How stress affects amygdala-mediated vigilance Professor Guillen Fernandez, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10:00	07Refreshments - Posters to be set up
10:30	08How the Brain Responds Quickly to Stress: Focus on Corticosteroids Zaal 1 Chair Marian Joels SILS-CNS & Rudolf Magnus Institute Utrecht The Netherlands Rapid and slow corticosterone responses in glucocorticoid target tissues Dr Astrid CE Linthorst, University of Bristol, HW-LINE, United Kingdom Stress at the Synapse: Anatomical Evidence for Extra Nuclear Adrenal Steroid Receptors Dr Luke R Johnson, Dept of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, United States Rapid effects of corticosteroids in limbic areas Henk Karst, University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, The Netherlands Glucocorticoid-Induced Endocannabinoid Actions Mediate Rapid Feedback Inhibition of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis Jeffrey G Tasker, Tulane University, United States	09Novel Translational Research Perspectives on Stress and Depression Zaal 2 Chair Dr Thomas Steckler Brain plasticity and behavior in depression: Gene and Environment studies Dr Gregers Wegener, University of Aarhus, Denmark Complexity of the early social environment: mother and peer interactions independently shape adult depression-like behavior and coping response to stress in the mouse Igor Branchi, ection of Behavioural Neurosciences, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy., Italy Stress revisited: a critical evaluation of the stress concept Jaap M Koolhaas, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Novel approaches to model depression in animals Mathias V Schmidt, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany	10Stress, Inflammation and Depression Zaal 3 Chair Cai Song University of Prince Edward Island, and Canada National Institute for Nutriscience and Health Canada Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and immune interaction in irritable bowel syndrome Prof Timothy G Dinan, University College Cork, Ireland Stress, Autonomic Nervous System Imbalance and Psychopathology Angelos Halaris, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, United States Stress, the immune system and depression: the link to dementia? Brian E Leonard, National University of ireland, Ireland New Developments in Stress, Inflammation and Depression Cai Song, University of Prince Edward Island, & National Research Institute for Nutriscience and Health, Canada
12:30	16Psychogenic Cardiovascular Disease: Moving Towards Centre Stage in Cardiology Zaal 4/5 Chair Graham Burrows Psychogenic Cardiovascular Disease: Moving Towards Centre Stage in Cardiology Professor Murray D Esler, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
13:00	17Lunch
14:30	11Consequences of Chronic Psychosocial Stress: Behaviour, Neurons and Immunology Zaal 1 Chair Inga D Neumann University of Regensburg Germany The impact of stress on social interaction and aggression. Mechanisms Prof Carmen Sandi, EPFL, Switzerland Chronic psychosocial stress: inflammation and adrenal insufficiency Stefan O Reber, Department of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology, Neuroscience Centre, University of Regensburg, Germany Stress and the Brain-Gut axis: Neural mechanisms and genetic influences Dr John F Cryan, Ireland Chronic stress in pregnancy: consequences for the mother’s mental health, not only the offspring Prof Inga D Neumann, Department of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology, Neuroscience Centre, University of Regensburg, Germany	12Programming Human Cognitive Development and Stress Related Disorders Zaal 4/5 Chair Bea RH Van den Bergh Tilburg University The Netherlands Programming human cognitive development and stress related disorders. Prenatal anxiety, behavioural and cortisol outcomes in the child, and placental mechanisms Prof Vivette Glover, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Maternal licorice consumption and cognitive development and stress-related disorders in their children Prof Katri Räikkönen, University of Helsinki, Finland Early life stress and adolescent HPA function: prospects for an investigation into risks of adult onset disease Dr J Anke M van Eekelen, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Perth, Australia Famine in pregnancy: its consequences for mental and physical health Tessa Roseboom, The Netherlands	28Gene Expression and Stress Zaal 3 Chair Graham Burrows The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism influences the prefrontal control of social emotional behavior MSc Inge Volman, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute (RU/DI-BCB), the Netherlands, The Netherlands Stress induces methylation of the E2F1 regulated glucocorticoid receptor promoter 1F Ms Simone R Alt, Institute of Immunology, Laboratoire National de Santé / Centre de Recherche Public de la Santé, Luxembourg A DNA binding domain deficient orphan nuclear receptor: a new interaction partner for GR in the brain? Dr Andrea B Schote, Department of Neurobehavioral Genetics, University Trier, Johanniterufer 15, D-54294 Germany, Germany Resilience to stress-related disorders as a result of augmented maternal care involves reduced excitation onto CRH expressing neurons in the hypothalamus Aniko Korosi, Univeristy of California Irvine, Dept. Anatomy/Neurobiology & Pediatrics, United States Transcriptional control of the hGR: Identification and analysis of alternative promoter regions Ms Lei Cao, Luxembourg Epigenetic and clock genes' expression perturbations in genetic and environmental models of depressive-like disorders Renaud Massart, UMR S894 - Inserm, UPMC, F-75013 Paris, France, France Alternative splice variants of SMG-1 as a potential marker for brief naturalistic stressors in peripheral leukocytes Yuki Kuwano, institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate school, Japan Expression of genes associated with cell proliferation and survival in the rat brain after forced swim stress exposure: possible implication in the behavioral immobility response Dr Galina T Shishkina, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia	29Basic Research and Clinical Aspects of Stress Zaal 2 Chair Dr Robb Stanley Royal Society of Victoria Australia Autonomic stress reactivty in mice lacking 5-HT1A receptors Prof Andrea Sgoifo, Stress Physiology Lab, Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Italy Mechanisms of stress-induced release of glutamate and of dampening action of antidepressants Maurizio Popoli, Center of Neuropharmacology-Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milano, Italy, Italy Towards a neuro-peripheral model of stress resilience: associations between ANS and HPA-axis responsiveness to stress in adolescence Dr Victor L Kallen, Leiden University, The Netherlands Prenatal Adversity – A Risk Factor in Borderline Personality Disorder Dipl-Psych Cornelia E Schwarze, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Germany Role of stress and phases of psychotic disorders Prof Ashok Malla, McGill University and Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Canada Anxiety and depression in obese pregnant women: a randomized controlled trial - preliminary results Dr Annick FL Bogaerts, Limburg Catholic University College, dpt. Health Care Midwifery Education, PHL University College, dpt.PHL Hasselt, Belgium
16:30	13Refreshments
17:00	15Stress, Attachment, and the Differential Susceptibility Paradigm Zaal 4/5 Chair Melly S Oitzl Div. Med. Pharmacol., LACDR/LUMC, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Stress, Attachment, and the Differential Susceptibility Paradigm Professor Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, The Netherlands
17:30	14Poster Sessions Cortisol in hair: 4. Decreased levels in patients with generalised anxiety disorder Dr Tobias Stalder, Department of Psychology, Chair of Biopsychology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Germany Cortisol in hair: 5. Increased concentrations in posttraumatic stress disorder Dr Tobias Stalder, Department of Psychology, Chair of Biopsychology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Germany Cardiovascular, neuroendocrine and subjective responses to the Cold Pressor stress test Diana F de Sá, Institute of Psychobiology, University of Trier, Germany Blood pressure reactions during post-learning stress may influence memory consolidation Monika Kölsch, University of Trier, Germany Effects of stress on human mating preferences Johanna Lass-Hennemann, Department of Clinical Psychology, Saarland University, Germany The stressed prefrontal cortex: Acute psychosocial stress leads to increased goal shielding at the expense of reduced cognitive flexibility Franziska Plessow, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Stress is Visible: Visualising Stress by Cytokines Dr Atsuo Sekiyama, Japan Cortisol in hair: 3. Elevated concentrations in endurance athletes Nadine Skoluda, Department of Psychology, Chair of Biopsychology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Germany Cortisol in hair: 2. Evidence for a marked alcohol intoxication-associated hypercortisolism Dr Tobias Stalder, Department of Psychology, Chair of Biopsychology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Germany Stability of Morning Profiles of the Salivary Stress Markers Cortisol and α-Amylase in Children MSc Jana Strahler, Biopsychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Sequence Variation in HPA Axis Regulating Genes and Depression Fabian Streit, Institute of Psychobiology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany Glucocorticoid receptors selectively modulate stress-evoked dopamine release in the prefrontal cortex Kelly Butts, University of British Columbia, Canada Rapid non-genomic effects of corticosterone on mouse hippocampus Ms Natasha Pasricha, Department of Neuroscience & Pharmacology, UMCU, Utrecht, The Netherlands MAP-kinase pathway inhibition enhances antidepressant-like effect of desipramine: A behavioural and electrophysiological study in rats Sonia Torres-Sánchez, School of Medicine, University of Cádiz, Spain Stress-induced Programming for Obesity: Role of Neuropeptide Y and Stem Cells Ms Naz Moaddab, Georgetown University, United States Ultrastructural responses to mild variable stress of Ucn1 neurons and their synaptic input in the rat non-preganglionic Edinger-Westphal nucleus Tamás Kozicz, Department of Cellular Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen., The Netherlands Blunted hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-Axis responsiveness to stress in atopic patients is associated to the acuity and severeness of allergic inflammation Dr Angelika Buske-Kirschbaum, Dept. of Biopsychology, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade in men: Effects on stress responses, selective attention and memory Ms Sandra Cornelisse, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands High-throughput screening of brief naturalistic stress-responsive cytokines in Japanese university students taking examinations Ms Sakurako Katsuura, Department of Stress Science, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, Japan High-throughput screening of immunomodulators identifies VEGF as a potential biomarker for trait anxiety and depressive mood in healthy Japanese university students Ms Sakurako Katsuura, Department of Stress Science, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan, Japan Restrain strain enhances IL-1 depndent down -regulation of cytochrome p450 dependent monooxigenase activity Mrs Karina K Kozochkina, Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy, Russia Experimentally induced hypocortisolism increases mechanical pain sensitivity but decreases perceptual wind-up Linn K Kuehl, Institute of Psychobiology, Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Trier, Germany Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) hypoactivity in circa 200 Fibromyalgia or Chronic fatigue (CFS) patients. Cortisol rhythm, Dexamethasone Supression Test (DST) and Free urinary cortisol (CLU.) Prof Dra Andrea Marquez Lopez Mato, IPBI, Argentina Simultaneous cocaine and immobilization treatments in rats: Response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to homotypic and heterotypic stimuli MSc Rui PS Rosa, Institut de Neurociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain The role of the sympatho-adrenal innervation in forced swimming-induced changes in circulating free corticosterone, noradrenaline and adrenaline: an in vivo blood microdialysis study Alinde E Wallinga, Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Reduced retrieval of emotional long-term memory under elevated basal cortisol levels Sandra Wohlgemuth, University of Basel, Division of Molecular Psychology, Switzerland Testosterone responses to social stress: differential effects for healthy individuals and patients with Social Phobia MSc Dorien Enter, Leiden University, The Netherlands The antidepressant desipramine prevents affective-aversive pain experience even when depression and pain coexist Lidia Bravo, University of Cadiz, Faculty of Medicine. CIBERSAM (G-18), Spain Instantaneous stress perception (ISP) during the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) Juliane Hellhammer, daacro - diagnostic assessment and clinical research organization, Germany Cortisol awakening responses in depressed inpatients Torsten Hero, Center of Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research, University of Trier, Trier, Germany, Germany Difficulties in reactive disorder diagnosing as a reason of multiple forensic-psychiatry examinations Dr Malgorzata Opio, Department of Forensic Psychiatry of Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Poland The relationship of the changing reactive disorders clinical picture with the change of economic system in Poland Dr Malgorzata Opio, Poland Interoceptive aversive cues succeed as unconditioned stimulus in an olfactory fear conditioning paradigm Ms Eloisa Pavesi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Potentiation of olfactory fear conditioning by mineralocorticoid receptors Mr Rimenez R Souza, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Brazil Early Life Stress Affects 5-HT1A Receptor and Serotonin Transporter mRNA Expression in the Rat Brain Javier A Bravo, Laboratory of NeuroGastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Ireland, Ireland ACTH effects on gene expression related to the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular system development in neonatal ratst Dr Nikolay N Dygalo, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia, Russia Chronic social defeat stress induces differential changes in hippocampal microRNA expression in two inbred mouse strains differing in anxiety behaviour Mr Richard M O' Connor, University College Cork, Ireland Concentration-dependent binding of the Glucocorticoid and Mineralocorticoid Receptor to their primary targets in the brain Dr J Annelies E Polman, The Netherlands Evaluating the Influence of Temperament and Personality on Cortisol Stress Responses to a Social Challenge in Both Chronic Major Depressive Disorder and Healthy Control Subjects Dr Kevin K Chopra, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto; Institute for Medical Science, University of Toronto, Canada Gender Difference in Post-traumatic stress disorder among Palestinian children exposed to traumatic events Ana Santos-Ruiz, Faculty of Psychology. University of Granada (Spain), Spain The Checklist Chronic Stress Complaints: a new rating scale for clinical diagnosis and treatment evaluation of chronic stress Dr Elisabeth Dorant, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Effects of Stress and hemispheric preference on job decision making Prof Yori Gidron, Faculty of medicine & pharmacy, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium The influencing effect of social stress on performance in a complex multiple task environment Corinna Peifer, Universität Trier, Germany Mental stress and cardiovascular reactivity in pregnant women Marijke AKA Braeken, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Renée A Otte, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Bea RH Van den Bergh, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Reduced high-frequency HRV during mental stress can be explained by vagal withdrawal Christian E Deuter, Institute of Psychobiology, University of Trier Evidence that cortisol-induced increase in baroreflex sensitivity of heart rate control is not due to afferent visceral neurotransmission André Schulz, Institute of Psychobiology, University of Trier, Germany Chronic variable mild stress alters the morphology and down-regulates the mitochondrial activity in various stress-sensitive brain areas in rats Dr Tamas Kozicz, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dynamic responses of the non-preganglionic Edinger-Westphal nucleus, paraventricular nucleus, central amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to an acute pain stressor Tamás Kozicz, Dept Cellular Animal Physiology, Donders Centre for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Chronic mild variable stress differentially recruits corticotropin-releasing factor neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, central amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in male and female rats Tamas Kozicz, Department of Cellular Animal Physiology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Structural complexity of the testis and PKG I/StAR interaction regulate the Leydig cell adaptive response to repeated immobilization stress Silvana A Andric, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia Escape to dexamethasone is associated with symptoms of serotonin deficiency Miss Katrin Bertram, Center of Psychosomatic and Psychobiological Research, University of Trier, Trier, Germany, Germany Steroids in hair: 6. A retrospective index of long-term estradiol, testosterone, progesterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone secretion Dr Tobias Stalder, Department of Psychology, Chair of Biopsychology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Germany Go no-go performance under socially evaluated physiological stress: Influences on inhibitory control - an ERP-study Angelika Dierolf, Universität Trier; Psychologie, Psychophysiologisches Labor, Germany Effects of acute stress on cognitive flexibility Julia Fechtner, Universität Trier, FB I - Psychologie, Psychophysiologisches Labor, Germany The mineralocorticoid receptor at the plasma membrane, examining single molecules with TIRF microscopy Mw Drs Femke L Groeneweg, Div Med Pharmacol, LACDR, Leiden Univ/LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands, The Netherlands One-day treatment with the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist mifepristone normalizes the reduction in neurogenesis after chronic corticosterone exposure by acting on young Doublecortin cells Pu Hu, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Center for Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Strain-specific alterations in colon 5-HT levels correlate to defecation responses in chronically stressed mice Marcela Julio-Pieper, Laboratory of Neurogastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Ireland, Ireland Restraint stress-induced glucocorticoid upregulates UCP2 expression to suppress mitochondrial ROS generation and increase the resistance of the mice to septic shock Dr Emiko Kasahara, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan Dr Atsuo Sekiyama, Japan Dr Dai Chida, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan Stress-induced modulation of ileal peristaltic movement in rats Mari Kimoto, Japan Women's University, Japan Effects of acute and repeated immobilization stress on Leydig cells apoptosis Tatjana S Kostic, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia A single episode of neonatal maternal deprivation alters brain metabolites. A study of proton NMR spectroscopy Ricardo LLorente, Departamento de Fisiología (Fisiología Animal II), Facultad de Biologia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Long term Effects of prenatal stress on the HPA axis: Role of NPY on behavior and Obesity Ms Naz Moaddab, Georgetown University, United States Virtual Reality as acute laboratory stressor: TSST validation in Virtual Reality and relation with personality parameters Ana Santos-Ruiz, Faculty of Psychology. University of Granada, Spain Variations in stress responsiveness over the ultradian glucocorticoid cycle Ratna A Sarabdjitsingh, Division of Medical Pharmacology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Cortisol awakening response and cortisol diurnal profile throughout pregnancy and in the postpartum Annelies Simons, Catholic University Leuven, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Bea RH Van den Bergh, Catholic University Leuven, Flemish Government, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Interaction of Mef2 and GR signaling pathways Dr Niels Speksnijder, LACDR, The Netherlands Fast, non-genomic effects of Cortisol on cerebral blood flow in 26 healthy men - a Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (CASL) study Florian Strelzyk, University of Trier - Department of Clinical Physiology, Germany Ultradian corticosterone secretion is maintained in the absence of circadian cues Dr Eleanor J Waite, HW LINE, University of Bristol, United Kingdom GR effector mechanisms for regulation of stress pathways in the brain: the role of Steroid Receptor Coactivator 1 (SRC-1) Ioannis Zalachoras, Medical Pharmacology, LACDR/LUMC, Leiden University, The Netherlands Spontaneous endogenous cortisol levels are not related to trace eyeblink conditioning Carina M Zech, University of Trier, Germany Chronic psychosocial stress enhances intake of high fat diet and reverse the high fat diet induced increased expression of POMC in the hypothalamus of C57/BL6 Dr Sara Bellantuono, Institute of Neuroscience, CNR-CERC, Via del Fosso di Fiorano 64/65 00143 Roma, Italy, Italy Dissociation between anhedonia, anxiety and central levels of the neurotrophin Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in a mouse model of social stress Alessandra Berry, Section of Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, Italy The role of endogenous glucocorticoids in neuroendocrine and immune systems in melanocortin receptor 2 (MC2R) deficient mice Dr Dai Chida, Deptartment of Immunology and Pathology, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan Acute and long-lasting effects of early-life experiences: impact of neonatal dexamethasone treatment Sanne EF Claessens, Division of Medical Pharmacology, LACDR/LUMC, Leiden University, The Netherlands Coping style and behavioral flexibility: behavioral and physiological responses during reinforced and extinguished operant behavior in rats Caroline M Coppens, Dept. Behavioral Physiology, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands A single footshock causes long-lasting hypoactivity in unknown environments that is dependent on the development of contextual fear conditioning Miss Núria Daviu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Long term psychoneuroendocrine effects of maternal deprivation and juvenile unpredictable stress; influence of sex Ricardo Llorente, Departamento de Fisiología (Fisiología Animal II), Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense; Madrid, Spain, Spain Simultaneous exposure to immobilization and cat fur odor did not reveal interaction between the two stressors Cristina Muñoz-Abellán, Institute of Neuroscience and Animal Physiology Unit, School of Biosciences. Autonomous University of Barcelona., Spain Behavioural and physiological consequences of chronic psychosocial stress in rats Kewir Y Nyuyki, Institute of Zoology, University of Regensburg, Germany Desipramine differentially regulates antidepressant-like behaviour and the HPA axis in stressed BALB/c mice Dr Olivia F O'Leary, University College Cork, Ireland Chronic social stress increases colonic permeability in rats postnatally exposed to long-term maternal separation Dr Eliann Øines, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway Stress impairs spatial but not early stimulus-response learning Melly S Oitzl, Div. Med. Pharmacol., LACDR/LUMC, University of Leiden,, The Netherlands Gestational stress in rats producing long-term changes in the dam’s emotional state is associated with gene expression changes in the brain of the mother and the offspring Guillaume Poirier, Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Switzerland Repeated exposure to immobilization or two different footshock intensities reveals putative factors affecting adaptation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis Miss Cristina Rabasa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Stress influences mineralocorticoid receptor mediated behaviour Dr Judith PF ter Horst, Leiden University, LACDR, Medical Pharmacology, The Netherlands How does individual variation in maternal care relate to hippocampus-dependent learning in rats? Miss Felisa N van Hasselt, SILS-CNS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands The role of pituitary glucocorticoid receptors in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis regulation following chronic social stress Mr Klaus Wagner, Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry Munich, Germany Maternal prenatal stress and infant cortisol reactivity: does non-parental care moderate the relationship? BSc Marjanneke de Jong, Behavioural Science Institute - Developmental Psychology - Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands MSc Roseriet Beijers, Behavioural Science Institute - Developmental Psychology - Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Children’s use of emotion regulation and cortisol response to a psychosocial stressor MSc Danielle MJ de Veld, Behavioural Science Institute - Developmental Psychology - Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr Carolina de Weerth, Behavioural Science Institute - Developmental Psychology - Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Stress changes temperament development during adolescence: The TRAILS study Odilia M Laceulle, University Centre for Psychiatry – University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands Cortisol and solitude in everyday life: moderating influence of trait affectivity in college women Psych G M Matias, School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal Type D personality, depressive symptoms and work-related health outcomes Paula MC Mommersteeg, Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic diseases, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands, The Netherlands BDNF val/val and 5-HTTLPR l/l most sensitive in gene-gene-environment interaction: The TRAILS study Esther Nederhof, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, The Netherlands Vasopressin needs an audience: neuropeptide elicited stress responses are contingent upon perceived social evaluative threats Mr Idan Shalev, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Autonomic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal stress resilience: Impact of cardiac vagal tone Dr Tom Smeets, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Parent-Infant Co-Sleeping and Infant Cortisol Reactivity in the First Two Months of Life Dr Marieke S Tollenaar, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Exogenous cortisol during post-encoding sleep augments emotional memory consolidation in humans Mr Hein JF van Marle, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, The Netherlands Neuroticism modulates amygdala – prefrontal connectivity in response to negative emotional facial expressions Henk R Cremers, Leiden University - Institute for Psychological Research - Clinical, Health and Neuropsychology Unit., The Netherlands Dynamically changing effects of corticosteroids on human working memory processing Marloes JAG Henckens, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, The Netherlands Stress-induced reduction in reward-related prefrontal cortex function Lindsey Ossewaarde, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Chronic mild stress alters body temperature rhythm and induces depression-like symptoms in rats exposed to postnatal long maternal separations Janne Gronli, University of Bergen, Norway The Longitudinal Relation between Maltreatment, Externalizing and Internalizing behavior, and Cortisol Dr Lenneke Alink, Leiden University, The Netherlands Validation of the three hit hypothesis of schizophrenia in genetically selected rats exposed to early life experience and adolescent psycho-social stressor N P Daskalakis, Division of Medical Pharmacology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research and Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands Traumatic stress and fibromialgya - More than 300 cases Prof Dra Andrea Marquez Lopez Mato, IPBI, Argentina Early Trauma and Perinatal Adversity in Borderline Personality Disorder Dipl-Psych Cornelia E Schwarze, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Germany Perceived stress and cortisol response to stress of adults exposed to trauma during childhood : the mediation of mental health and attachment Mrs Raffaella Torrisi, Service de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent SUPEA-CHUV, Switzerland Effects of “psychological inoculation” on anxiety and expectations concerning the H1N1 flu: An Internet intervention study Prof Yori Gidron, Faculty of medicine & pharmacy, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium Stress-related changes in Laboratory Eating Behavior in Obese Women are not determined by Levels of Restrained Eating Esther MD Hilterscheid, University of Trier, Germany Cortisol in hair: 1. Associations with sociodemographic variables and potential confounders Antje Tietze, Department of Psychology, Chair of Biopsychology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Germany Fybromialgia and children abuse stress in more than 300 cases. Can this fact be reintertpreted as fybromialgia been a PTSD disorder? Prof Dra Andrea Marquez Lopez Mato, IPBI, Argentina Long term and sex-specific effects of adversities from perinatal period up to adolescence on adolescents' cortisol stress responses. The TRAILS study Nienke Bosch, Interdisciplinary Center for Psychiatric Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands Development of anhedonia under chronic social defeat stress Dr Sci Natalia N Kudryavtseva, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SD RAS, Russia Prenatal Stress and Programming Effects on Neurocognitive Functioning in 2 - Month Old Babies Renée A Otte, Tilburg University, The Netherlands The infant cortisol response to a modified Still Face Paradigm: associations with caregiving factors MSc Roseriet Beijers, Behavioural Science Institute - Developmental Psychology - Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Friday, 27 August 2010
08:30	18Reconsolidation Blockade: A Novel Treatment for PTSD? Zaal 4/5 Chair Ron E de Kloet Division of Medical Pharmacology, LACDR/LUMC, Leiden University The Netherlands Reconsolidation Blockade: A Novel Treatment for PTSD? Dr Roger K Pitman, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
09:00	19Perinatal stress and the developmental origins of violence: evidence of epigenetic pathways Zaal 4/5 Chair Dr Robb Stanley Royal Society of Victoria Australia Perinatal stress and the developmental origins of violence: evidence of epigenetic pathways Dr Richard E Tremblay, University College Dublin & University of Montreal, Ireland
09:30	20Towards an animal model of PTSD Zaal 4/5 Chair Prof Onno C Meijer Division of Medical Pharmacology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University The Netherlands Towards an animal model of PTSD Prof Gal-Richter Levin, Haifa University, Israel
10:00	21Refreshments
10:30	22From Epigentics to Proteins: New Approaches and Insights in Psychopathology Zaal 1 Chair Jos Prickaerts The Netherlands Epigenetic mechanisms in stress-related psychopathology Johannes MHM Reul, University of Bristol, United Kingdom The signature of early life in the epigenome and its implications on adult health Dr Moshe Szyf, McGill University, Canada Psychiatric disorder biomarker and pathway identification Prof Chris W Turck, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany Epigenetic mechanisms as targets for treating mood disorders Dr Herbert E Covington, Mt. Sinai, United States	23Towards Personalized Medicine in Stress Related Disease Zaal 2 Chair Brenda Penninx The Netherlands Brain stress-receptor gene-variants modulate vulnerability for psychiatric disorders Roel de Rijk, Leiden University, The Netherlands Pharmacogenetics of antidepressant treatment outcome - Role of HPA axis and environmental influences Marcus Ising, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences Prof Jay Belsky, Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, United Kingdom Dynamic gene-person-context interactions and new person-tailored strategies to improve treatment in depression Marieke Wichers, Maastricht University, The Netherlands	24Stress and Stress Hormones: Processing and Storage of Emotional Information Zaal 3 Chair Melly S Oitzl LACDR, Div Med Pharmacol The Netherlands Genetic differences in the glucocorticoid receptor and emotional memory Prof Dominique J-F de Quervain, University of Basel Birmannsgasse 8, Switzerland Impact of post-learning stress on socially relevant memory Prof Dr Hartmut Schachinger, University of Trier, Germany Effects of stress and cortisol on social threat processing Karin Roelofs, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), The Netherlands Psychosocial stress modulates instrumental behavior in an appetitive instrumental learning task Prof Oliver T Wolf, Department of Cognitive Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Germany
12:30	25Glucocorticoid Metabolism and Brain Ageing; Don't Forget It Zaal 4/5 Chair Roel de Rijk Leiden University The Netherlands Glucocorticoid metabolism and brain ageing; don't forget it Professor Jonathan Seckl, Queens' Medical Research Institute, United Kingdom
13:00	26Lunch
14:30	27Looking into the Stressed Brain Zaal 4/5 Chair Nic J,A van der Wee Dept. of Psychiatry and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition The Netherlands Central nervous system mechanisms of stress regulation Dr Jens C Pruessner, McGill University, Canada Interaction of noradrenaline and cortisol shift human brain activation Anda H van Stegeren, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands The central stress response: reallocation of neural resources at the system-level Erno J Hermans, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, The Netherlands Processing of emotional signals in the human amygdala Christian Büchel, UKE, Germany	30Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and The Impact of Early Childhood Trauma Zaal 2 Chair Ron E de Kloet Division of Medical Pharmacology, LACDR/LUMC, Leiden University The Netherlands Aripiprazole and cognition in posttraumatic stress disorder Professor Mark B Hamner, Department of Veterans Affairs and the Medical University of South Carolina, United States Salivary Cortisol and DHEAS in Raped Adolescent Girls with PTSD MSc Iva Bicanic, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands Genomic Characterization of a Mouse Model Simulating Features of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Dr Rasha Hammamieh, Walter Reed Army Insitute of Research, United States Social Defeat in Mice: Time Course and Re-Consolidation of Fear and its Relevance to PTSD Dr Thereza DeLima, Brazil Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system status and free radical oxidation in patients with posttraumatic syndrome Prof Vadim E Tseilikman, Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy, Russia The impact of childhood abuse and recent stress on serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and the moderating role of the BDNF Val66Met genotype Dr Bernet M Elzinga, Leiden University, The Netherlands	31Animal Models in Stress Research Zaal 3 Chair Prof Onno C Meijer Division of Medical Pharmacology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, Leiden University The Netherlands Chronic social stress provokes enduring pro-arrhythmic effects in rats Dr Eugene Nalivaiko, University of Newcastle, Australia Changes of dentritic spine density and morphology in the hippocampal neurons in prenatally stressed lambs Dr Marjorie Coulon, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Norway Identification of a plasticity relevant proteome in the prenatal restraint stress rat model Sara Morley-Fletcher, Neural Plasticity Team UMR CNRS 8576 Structural and Functional Glycobiology Unit, University of Lille 1, France Changes in respiratory pattern in unrestrained rats during arousal and stress Dr Eugene Nalivaiko, University of Newcastle, Australia Genes, Hormones and the Brain: Modelling Clinically Relevant Endophenotypes of Major Depression in Mice Selected for Extremes in Stress Reactivity Chadi Touma, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany Ex vivo analysis of neurone recruitment during operant conditioning of learned helplessness in Planorbis Steve Hodgkinson, Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Germany Short, daily maternal separation during the first weeks of life differentially affects adult stress coping capacity in RHA/RLA rats Dr Thierry Steimer, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University Hospital,, Switzerland Effects of genotype on cortisol responses to stressors in tail-biter, victim and control pigs Manja Zupan, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Oslo, Norway	32The Effects of Stress Zaal 1 Chair Melly S Oitzl Div. Med. Pharmacol., LACDR/LUMC, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Impact of prenatal maternal stress and synthetic glucocorticoid treatments on HPA responses to acute psychosocial stress and cognition in term born children Jana Strahler, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Mothers’ attitudes towards pregnancy, glucocorticoid receptor polymorphism and newborn’s weight Prof Yori Gidron, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium Increased prevalence of psychopathology and maladaptive personality traits after long-term cure of Cushing’s disease Jitske Tiemensma, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands Understanding limitations of eyewitness memory: acute stress alters brain and pupil responses related to successful memory formation MSc Shaozheng Qin, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute (RU/DI-BCB), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Dr Erno J Hermans, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute (RU/DI-BCB), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Dr Hein JF van Marle, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute (RU/DI-BCB), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Prof Dr Guillén Fernández, Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute (RU/DI-BCB), Nijmegen, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Cortisol awakening responses are low following a history of high cortisol responses Dr Mattie Tops, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Does being lean make you less stress-responsive? Dr Sarah J Spencer, Monash University, Australia Association between prenatal maternal anxiety and neurocognitive functioning in five year old children Eva M Loomans, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Neural regulation of endocrine and autonomic stress responses in health and disease Dr James P Herman, University of Cincinnati, United States
16:30	33Closing Remarks Chair Graham Burrows
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