The Interactive Sessions will be available to view live online
Programme
Monday 14th January 2019 Day 1:
9.00am-9.15am: Opening and meeting, welcome and update on COST Action
Speaker: Professor Naomi Fineberg and Professor J Zohar
9.15am-9.30am: Practicalities: Format of the conference and information about Cambridge
Speaker: Dr Sam Chamberlain
9.30am-11.30am: Interactive Training session 1:
Discussant: Professor M Brand
9.30am-10.00am:Introduction to PUI
Speaker: Professor Naomi Fineberg and Professor J Zohar
10.00am-10.30am: Classification of PUI; controversies and consensus
Speaker: Professor Dan Stein
10.30am-11.00am: Assessment of gaming disorder and PUI – what are the best scales?
Speaker: Professor Zsolt Demetrovics and Dr Orsolya Király
11.00am-11.30am: PUI and substances: a controversial correlation
Speaker: Dr Giovanni Martinotti
11.30am-12.00pm: Coffee break
12.00pm-1.00pm: Special Guest Plenary: Risk and Resilience in adolescent mental health
Speaker: Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, University of Cambridge
Tuesday 15th January 2019 Day 2
9.30am-11.30am: Interactive Training session 2:
Discussant: Professor Naomi Fineberg
9.30am-10.00am: Genetics of behavioural addiction, of relevance to PUI
Speaker: Professor Edna Grünblatt
10.00am-10.30am: Psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of PUI: an update
Speaker: Professor Matthias Brand
10.30am-11.00am: Cognitive mechanisms and PUI
Speaker:Dr Konstantios Ioannidis
11.00am-11.30am: PUI in childhood populations
Speaker: Professor Stefano Pallanti (via videolink)
11.30am-12.00pm: Coffee break
12.00pm-1.00pm: Special Guest Plenary: Innovative Statistical Approaches for Characterising Mental Disorders: Machine LEarning
Speaker:Dr Mattias Treder, Cardiff University
Wednesday 16th January 2019 Day 3
9.30am-11.30am: Interactive Training session 3:
Discussant: Dr Sam Chamberlain
9.30am-10.00am: PUI and ASD
Speaker: Professor Eric Hollander
10.00am-10.30am: Treatments for gambling disorder and related conditions: possible implications for PUI
Speaker: Professor Jon Grant
10.30am-11.00am: Treatments for obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders
Speaker:Professor Michael van Ameringen
11.00am-11.30am: Compulsive problems and disorders in children and adolescents
Speaker: Professor Dan Geller
11.30am-12.00pm: Coffee break
12.00pm-1.00pm: Special Guest Plenary: Inflammation and Depression
Speaker: Dr Golam Khandaker, University of Cambridge