Conference details
4th European Conference on Schizophrenia Research - Together for better Treatment and Care
European Scientific Association on Schizophrenia and other Psychoses (ESAS)
Dr. Viktoria Toeller
c/o Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Bergische Landstraße 2
40629 Düsseldorf
Veranstaltungsort: Urania e.V., Berlin
The ECSR is a biennial scientific conference dealing with recent developments in schizophrenia research as well as with challenges in clinical settings. The subtitle “Together for better treatment and care” underlines the need for comprehensive efforts to improve the situation of schizophrenia patients which despite recent progress still poses many challenges to those affected by schizophrenia as well as to researchers and clinicians.
The scientific programme is highlighted by these plenary lectures
Reconceptualizing schizophrenia:The Research Domain Criteria Project
Bruce N. Cuthbert, Bethesda
Shifting Paradigms for Therapeutic Discovery
Will Carpenter, Baltimore
Structure and function of the human brain at the level of receptors and neural systems:
Basis for psychiatric research
Karl Zilles, Aachen
Twenty years of early intervention in psychosis:
How critical is the critical period hypothesis?
Max Birchwood, Birmingham
The ECSR is a joint thematic conference of the European Scientific Association on Schizophrenia and other Psychoses (ESAS), the Competence Network on Schizophrenia, of EPA and DGPPN which is supported by WPA and its schizophrenia section and the Asian Network for Schizophrenia Research (ANSR).
