Depression "Brain Causes - Body Consequences"

Preliminary Programme

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Day 1 : 2nd April 2007
07:45 - 08:30
Registration
08:30 - 08:45

Welcome: Lewis Wolpert, Robin M. Murray
08:45 - 09:30

Opening Lecture, Chair: David Nutt
 

Charles Nemeroff
Is depression a disorder of the whole body?

Symposium 1
Depression: why me?

Chair: Lewis Wolpert, Peter McGuffin
09:30 - 10:00

Bernard Crespi
Is depression a maladaptation?

10:00 - 10:30

Terrie Moffitt
Depression: Nature or Nurture?

10:30 - 11:00

Randolph Nesse
Why does mood exist?
11:00 - 11:30
Morning Tea

Speech by the Secretary of State for Health
Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP

Chair: Carmine M. Pariante

Symposium 2
Is depression an immune disorder?

Chair: Charles Nemeroff, Matthew Hotopf

12:00 - 12:30

Robert Dantzer
Cytokines and Depression: What are the Intermediate Mechanisms?

12:30 - 13:00

Ted Dinan
HPA axis and cytokines: what is the link?
13:00 - 13:30 Andrew H. Miller
Neuropsychiatric adverse effects of interferon-alpha: do they tell us anything about depression?
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch Break

Symposium 3
Is depression an endocrine disorder?

Chair: Ted Dinan, Stafford Lightman

14:30 - 15:00

Stephan Claes
Do stress genes cause depression?

15:00 - 15:30

Ian Goodyer
Does cortisol cause depression?
15:30 - 16:00

Jim Van Os
Do genes regulate our response to stress?

16:00 - 16:30

Elizabeth Young
PTDS and Depression: same hormones, two disorders?

16:30 - 17:00
Afternoon Tea

Symposium 4
Does depression have damaging effects?

Chair: Martin Raff, Simon Wessely
17:00 - 17:30

Anthony Cleare
Does depression induce pain and fatigue?
17:30 - 18:00

Paul J Lucassen
Does depression damage the brain?
18:00 - 18:30

Veronica O’Keane
Does pregnancy cause depression?
18:30 - 19:00

Andrew Steptoe
Does depression cause coronary heart disease?
19:00 - 20:00
Poster Session and Canapes reception

Day 2 : 3rd April 2007

Symposium 5
The anatomy of depression

Chair: David Nutt, Allan Young
08:30 - 09:00

Philip J Cowen
Is it just monoamines?
09:00 - 09:30

Helen Mayberg
The brain circuits of depression
09:30 - 10:00

Hamish McAllister-Williams
Can we use EEG to localise depression?
10:00 - 10:30

Thomas Schlaepfer
Can we use magnet fields to localise depression?
10:30 - 11:00
Morning Tea

Symposium 6
Can we model depression in animals?

Chair: Andrew H Miller, Kathy J. Aitchison
11:00 - 11:30

Peter Gass
Can we make animals resistant to depression?
11:30 - 12:00

Steven F. Maier
Where are vulnerability and resilience localised in the brain?
12:00 - 12:30

Jonathan Seckl
Can we program animals to be depressed?
12:30 - 13:00

Stephen J Suomi
Can we model depression in monkeys?

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break

Symposium 7
Is bipolar different from unipolar?

Chair: Nicol Ferrier, Robin Murray
14:00 - 14:30

Anne Mudge
Molecular insight into mood-affecting drug action.
14:30 - 15:00

Mike Owen
Is it all in the genes?

15:00 - 15:30 Mary Phillips
Bipolar and unipolar depression: same or different brain mechanisms?
15:30 - 16:00

Alan Schatzberg
Does targeting the HPA axis work?
16:00 - 16:30

Allan Young
Bipolar and unipolar depression: what are the differences?

Closing Lecture

Chair: Robin M. Murray
16:30 - 17:15

David Nutt
How can we discover new antidepressants?