This UCL – Anna Freud Centre conference will bring together leading neuroscientists from Europe and the US to provide a unique forum to explore the latest research and link it to interventions and treatments of mental disorders including autism, personality disorders, depression and attachment disorders. The conference will be divided into two sessions: Neuroscience of Affect and Attachment and Neuroscience of Social Cognition and topics in each section will be discussed from a developmental perspective.

Participants will include: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UK), Anna Buchheim (Austria), Peter Fonagy (UK), Andrew Gerber (USA), György Gergely (Hungary), Patrick Luyten (Belgium), Read Montague (USA), Kevin Pelphrey (USA), Elisabeth Phelps (USA), Rebecca Saxe (USA), Tania Singer (Germany), Lane Strathearn (USA), James Swain (USA) and Kai Vogeley (Germany)

Chairs will include: Pasco Fearon (UK), Jim Hopkins (UK), Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Germany) and Eamon McCrory (UK)

Topics will include:

• Social Emotions from the Perspective of Social Neuroscience: Their Modulation, Plasticity and Development
  
• Strunctural and Functional Brain Imaging: Attachment Phenomena during the Early Postpartum
  
• Neural Correlates of Attachment in Depressed Patients during Psychoanalytic Treatment
  
• The Social Brain in Adolescence
  
• A Developmental Perspective of Social Cognition
  
• Using Neuroimaging of Social Cognition to Conceptualize and Measure the Neural Bases of Change in Psychotherapy
  
• Person Perception and Social Interaction
  
• Ostensive Communication and Epistemic Trust
  
• Neural Underpinnings of Human Social Behavior

Call for Posters:
There will be an opportunity to present posters designed to explore issues relating to the conference theme. Please email submissions to n.harding@ucl.ac.uk by 1st April 2011.

Instructions for submitting poster abstracts:
Please send a 500 word abstract outlining the research that you would like to display in the poster to n.harding@ucl.ac.uk. The Peer Review Committee will let you know their decision as soon as possible. Please note that the new deadline for submission is now 5pm on 1st April 2011.