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Implications of Research on the Neuroscience of Affect, Attachment and Social Cognition 

Abstract:

For the third time, leading neuroscientists from Europe and the USA will once again host this unique forum exploring the latest neuroscience research with reference to treatments of mental disorders including autism, depression, personality disorders and attachment disorders. Implications on clinical and developmental perspectives of these psychopathologies will be discussed. 

This conference will provide an interdisciplinary platform to hold a dialogue between basic science and clinical practice with children, adolescents and adults.

Topics:

  • "Second-person neuroscience: New perspectives in social neuroscience and implications for the study of the neural mechanisms of psychiatric disorders"
  • "Sex differences in mind"
  • "Imitation in autism spectrum condition"
  • "How Stress Influences Parental Brain and Behavioral Sensitivity toward Infants"
  • "Using conduct problem phenotypes to highlight the challenge of uncovering how genes and environments influence the development of social minds"
  • "Integrating clinical and developmental neuroscience research: the case of high-risk for psychosis"
  • "Body-conscious? Yes, but in what way(s)? Exteroception, interoception and intersubjectivity"
  • "The Attachment paradigm: scientific infrastructure - practical therapy"
  • "Computational Psychiatry"
  • "Other people's influence on what to really really want- Others' influence on preferences, its brain substrate and possible clinical implications"
  • "The Bayesian Infant and Emerging Interpersonal Generative Models In Personality Disorders"
  • "Computational modeling of social learning: The development of epistemic trust"
  • "Epistemic trust, resilience and reconsidering the role of mentalization in psychotherapy"
  • "Towards a truly developmental neuroscience of attachment, affect and social cognition? Part III"    

Speakers:

  • Simon Baron-Cohen (Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University)
  • Martin Debbane (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Peter Fonagy (Anna Freud Centre, and University College London, UK)
  • Antonia Hamilton (University College London, UK)
  • Jeremy Holmes (University of Exeter, UK)
  • Pilyoung Kim (University of Denver, USA)
  • Patrick Luyten (University of Leuven, Belgium, and University College London, UK)
  • Read Montague (The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, USA)
  • Michael Moutoussis (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, and University College London, UK)
  • Tobias Nolte (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, and University College London, UK)
  • Leonhard Schilbach (Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry, and University Hospital Cologne, Germany)
  • Patrick Shafto (University of Louisville, USA)
  • Manos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
  • Essi Viding (University College London, UK)

Chairs and plenary panel members:

  • Peter Fonagy (Anna Freud Centre, and University College London, UK)
  • Katerina Fotopoulou (University College London, UK)
  • Tobias Nolte (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, and University College London, UK)
  • Jessica Yakeley (Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust)

* Standard rate: £200 

* Candidate / part time student: £150

* Student rate: £50 

* All costs will include refreshments, lunch, welcome packs and a drinks reception on Saturday 25 April 2015