Anxiety – Targeting the Mechanisms of Menace Event
- Time:
- 09:00 - 17:00
- Date:
- 2 September 2014
- Venue:
- Highfield Campus
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Carole Evans or Magda Nowak on 023 80718520 or email anxt@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
This one-day conference will examine how recent scientific advances in our understanding of anxiety can inform psychological and drug treatments for anxiety.
The programme highlights translational research in
human anxiety and includes talks from leading
academics and clinicians in UK psychiatry, clinical
psychology, experimental psychology and neuroscience.
Keynote speakers:
- Prof Elaine Fox, University of Oxford: "Exploring the cognitive and genetic mechanisms associated with vulnerability to anxiety "
- Prof Graham Davey, University of Sussex: "Mechanisms of pathological worrying: What can studies in the lab tell us about anxiety disorders?"
- Dr Sam Chamberlain, University of Cambridge: "Cognitive and imaging endophenotypes of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders"
Additional presentations, including:
- Prof David Baldwin, Psychiatry, University of Southampton. Chair of Anxiety Disorders Research Network, European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
- Dr Lusia Stopa, Psychology, University of Southampton
Director of Clinical Psychology
Posters: email your 300 word abstract to:
anxt@soton.ac.uk
(deadline 11th Aug 2014)
To register click here:
http://go.soton.ac.uk/5z2