Unique Psychiatry and Neurology Congress - MIND & BRAIN - 64th INPC May 29th- June 1st, 2025. Park Plaza Histria, Pula, Croatia.

2024 Program

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 2024

PROGRAM

Program in progress*

Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Program-at-glance
Program Booklet
   
14:00-15:30 Registration
   
15:30-17:00
Hall A
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO PATIENTS WITH A SWALLOWING DISORDER
Chairperson: Tonko Vlak (Split, Croatia) & Frane Grubišić (Zagreb)
   
Frane Grubišić (Zagreb, Croatia): Standard of care for patients with
swallowing disorder
  Petar Gulin (Zagreb, Croatia): Swallowing evaluation for oropharyngeal dysphagia - role of endoscopy
  Paola Danjek (Zagreb, Croatia): Nonpharmacological approach to patients with swallowing disorder - speech-language therapy 
  Tatjana Pavić (Zagreb, Croatia): Possibilities of nutritive support for patients with swallowing disorders
   
17:00-18:00
Hall A
PULA MS DAY - Panel discussion on MS management in Croatia
Panelists: Silva Butković Soldo (Osijek, Croatia) & Vanja Bašić Kes (Zagreb, Croatia) &   Dolores Janko Labinac (Pula, Croatia) & Sanja Tomasović (Zagreb,Croatia) & Dunjica Karniš (Lipik, Croatia)
   
18:00-18:30
Hall A
INDUSTRY-SPONSORED SESSION
   
18:30-19:00
Hall A
ACADEMIC LECTURE:
Zdravko Lackovic (Zagreb, Croatia): Pharmacology of the glutamate system in the brain 2024
 

 Friday, 31.5.2024.
 
09:00-10:00
Hall A
OPENING CEREMONY
10:00-11:30
Hall A
PLENARY SESSION
Chairpersons: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Milija Mijajlović (Belgrade, Serbia)
 
  Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): Harnessing Neuroplasticity for Maintaining Brain Health
  Karl Bechter (Günzburg, Germany): Development of neuropsychiatry over the last 30 years and the new era of Immuno-Psychiatry
  Nobert Müller (Munich, Germany): Inflammation and the role of childhood trauma in psychiatric disorders
  Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany): Animal-assisted therapy for people with mental disorders
 
   
11:30-13:00
Hall A
GRAZ STROKE SYMPOSIUM: PATHWAYS TO OPTIMIZE STROKE CARE
Chairpersons: Kurt Niederkorn (Graz, Austria) & Thomas Gattringer (Graz, Austria)
   
Kurt Niederkorn (Graz, Austria): Brief Introduction on available international models
  Hannes Deutschmann (Graz, Austria): Neuroimaging of acute stroke: Practical approaches with focus on thrombectomy selection
  Michael Augustin (Graz, Austria): Novel techniques in endovascular stroke treatment
  Markus Kneihsl (Graz, Austria): Unmasking the enigma of cryptogenic stroke - the Styrian diagnostic pathway
  Thomas Gattringer (Graz, Austria): Comprehensive Post-Stroke Care: Beyond antithrombotics: the Austrian model of structured multidisciplinary post stroke care
   
11:30-13:00
Hall B
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY SYMPOSIUM
Chairpersons: Radek Ptaček (Prague, Czechia) & Arjan Blokland (Maastricht, Netherlands)
   
Radek Ptaček (Prague, Czechia): ADHD as a lifelong disorder.
  Igor Mošič (Rijeka, Croatia): Flourishing of Humanity through the Science of Altruism
  Iva Vukovojac (Zagreb, Croatia): Scraping the surface of autism - Investigating the relationship between pupillary response to emotion and autistic traits
  Arjan Blokland (Maastricht, Netherlands): The PDE4 inhibitor roflumilast improves memory performance in stroke patients.
   
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
   
14:00-16:00
Hall B
PSYCHIATRY SYMPOSIUM: LONELINESS BETWEEN CULTURE OF NARCISSISM AND CULTURE OF EMPATHY
Chairpersons: Norman Sartorius (Geneva, Switzerland) & Darko Marčinko (Zagreb, Croatia)
   
Norman Sartorius (Geneva, Switzerland): Global Mental Health and Loneliness
  Martin Brune (Bochum, Germany): Evolutionary aspects of personality dimensions
  Miro Jakovljević (Zagreb, Croatia): Empathy as the medicine for the loneliness in our VUCA world
  Mevludin Hasanović (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina): Message to raped women to break their shame and loneliness for hope and recovery in the violent world
  Darko Marčinko (Zagreb, Croatia): Pathological Narcissism and Cloneliness
   
14:00-15:30
Hall A
CEESS STROKE SYMPOSIUM
Chairpersons: Anita Arsovska (Skopje, N. Macedonia) & Bojana Žvan (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
   
Milija Mijajlović (Belgrade, Serbia): Optimal control of hypertension in carotid stenosis
  Bojana Žvan (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Telereperfusion in acute ischemic stroke: Between mind and art
  Anita Arsovska (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Not heritable rare cerebrovascular diseases
  Vladimir Rendevski / Boris Aleksovski (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Predictive mathematical models for the quantification of perifocal brain edema in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, based on the investigated biomarkers of our 10-year clinical studies
   
15:30-16:00
Hall A
INDUSTRY-SPONSORED SESSION
   
16:00-18:30
Hall B
AUTISM SYMPOSIUM: AUTISM AND NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS: NEW INSIGHTS
Charipersons:  Nadia Chabane (Lausanne, Switzerland) & Raphael Béné (Lausanne, Switzerland)
   
Marc-Antoine Crocq (Mulhouse, France): Psychopharmacology of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  Leo Schilbach (Munich, Germany): Psychiatric disorders as disorders of social interaction: the case of autism
  Nadia Chabane (Lausanne, Switzerland): Using EEG to challenge ASD heterogeneity: Stratification of brain functional connectivity reveals clinically meaningful subgroups of ASD
  Raphael Béné (Lausanne, Switzerland): Autism spectrum disorder, disability, or difference?
  Kosjenka Petek / Zeljka Peras (Zagreb, Croatia): ASK initiative: a Croatian autistic community
   
16:00-17:30
Hall A
HISPA & MIGRAINE & NEUROSONOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
Chairpersons: Elena Tremoli (Ravenna, Italy) & Marjan Zaletel (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
   
Fabrizio Veglia (Ravenna, Italy): Is IMT a clinically relevant ultrasound measurement?
  Ana Maria Malagoni (Ravena, Italy): Exercise and arterial health: exploring the effects on carotid intima-media thickness
  Sandra Morović (Zagreb, Croatia): Physical activity for stroke and migraine prevention
  Marjan Zaletel (Ljubljana, Slovenia): How to break a pain circle in migraine; our experiences
  Hrvoje Budinčević (Zagreb, Croatia): Endothelial dysfunction in migraine
   
16:00-18:30
Hall C
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STUDENTS’ SYMPOSIUM
Chairperson: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Filip Đerke (Zagreb, Croatia)
   
Filip Đerke (Zagreb, Croatia): Overview of AI in neurology and psychiatry
  Ana Deškin (Zagreb, Croatia): AI algorithms in prion disease diagnosis
  Anton Pulić (Zagreb, Croatia): AI and voice recognition for follow-up Parkinson's Disease patients
  Barbara Krejči (Zagreb, Croatia): Aging and Alzheimer's Disease - how can AI predict preventable risk factors?
  Dora Pavlin (Zagreb, Croatia): Machine learning and stroke prediction
  Veronika Lendvaj (Zagreb, Croatia): AI Solutions for Diagnosing ADHD: Bridging the Gap
  Dino Žujić (Zagreb, Croatia): DBS in psychiatry - perspectives and challenges
  Lara Maria Stričak (Zagreb, Croatia):  Cognition improved by AI
  Martin Đevenica (Zagreb, Croatia): Machine learning in tremor analysis
   
17:30-18:30
Hall A
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SYMPOSIUM
Chairpersons: Uroš Rot (Ljubljana, Slovenia) & Osman Sinanović (Tuzla, BiH)
   
Uroš Rot (Ljubljana, Slovenia) - Adherence to disease-modifying therapy in multiple sclerosis:  experience from Slovenia
  Osman Sinanović (Tuzla, BiH): Non-motor symptoms in multiple sclerosis
  Vanja Bašić Kes (Zagreb, Croatia): Biomarkers in multiple sclerosis
   
18.30-20:00
Ulika hall
POSTER SESSION
Chairpersons: Martin Brüne, Kurt Niederkorn, Ivica Šain, Hrvoje Budinčević

 
Saturday, 1.6.2024.   
09:00-10:30
Hall A
PLENARY SESSION
Chairpersons: Leontino Battistin (Padua, Italy) & Francesco Benedetti (Milan, Italy)
   
Leontino Battistin (Padua, Italy): Quo vadis clinical medicine?
  Francesco Benedetti (Milan, Italy): The immune system as a target for antidepressant treatment
  Milan Latas (Belgrade, Serbia): Is there separation anxiety in adults?
  Marina Roje Bedeković (Zagreb, Croatia): Immunosenescence and stroke
   
10:30-11:00
Hall A
INDUSTRY-SPONSORED SESSION
   
10:30-13:00
Hall C
MY WAY WORKSHOP: PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AFTER STROKE (IN CROATIAN)
Chairperson: Hrvoje Budincevic (Zagreb, Croatia)
   
11:00-12:30
Hall B
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL
Chairperson: Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany) & Darko Marčinko (Zagreb, Croatia)
   
Giulia Agostoni (Milan, Italy): Disentangling empathy for pain: cross-cultural differences among Italian and German individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder
  Jacopo Sapienza (Milan, Italy): Psychedelics and schizophrenia: a double-edged sword?
  Darko Marčinko, Vedran Bilić, Nenad Jakšić (Zagreb, Croatia): Shame and Personality Disorders
  Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany): Life History Theory and ICD-11 personality disorders
   
11:00-12:30
Hall A
EPILEPSY SYMPOSIUM
Chairperson: Silvio Bašić (Zagreb, Croatia)
   
Vladimir Bašćarević (Belgrade, Serbia): Epilepsy surgery in LEAT
  Aleksandar Ristić (Belgrade, Serbia): Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy, Challenges and Future Directions
  Silvio Bašić (Zagreb, Croatia): Pseudo-Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy, a Management Challenge
  Ivana Bašić (Zagreb, Croatia): Epilepsy pharmacotherapy - is the time for a paradigm shift?
  Ana Sruk (Zagreb, Croatia): Therapeutic Adherence of People with Epilepsy
   
12:30-13:00
Hall A
INDUSTRY-SPONSORED SESSION
   
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
   
14:00-15:30
Hall A
BRAIN&MIND&IMMUNITY: CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE OF PNEI
Chairpersons: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Sanja Toljan (Zagreb, Croatia)
   
Sanja Toljan (Zagreb, Croatia): PNEI: from diagnosis to treatment
  Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): Is mitochondria really the powerhouse of the organism?
  Andrija Karačić (Zagreb, Croatia): What does your boss do in your gut? How stress translates into gut dysbiosis
   
14:00-15:30
Hall B
PULA NEUROPSYCHIATRY WORKSHOP (IN CROATIAN)
Chairperson: Dolores Janko Labinac (Pula, Croatia)
   
15:30-17:30
Hall A
NEURODEGENERATIVE & NEUROPSYCHIATRY SYMPOSIUM
Chairpersons: Gabriela Novotni (Skopje, N. Macedonia) & Ivica Šain (Pula, Croatia)
   
Gabriela Novotni (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Dementia prevention and the Memory Clinic of the future
  Hrvoje Budinčević (Zagreb, Croatia): Optimizing levodopa treatment in Parkinson's disease
  Vladimira Vuletić (Rijeka, Croatia): Personalized treatment for advanced Parkinson's diseases
  Chenyang Gao (Tianjin, China): Novel Insights into Gender-Specific Brain Activity and Connectivity in Bipolar Depression: A Comprehensive fNIRS Study
  Vesna Đermanović Dobrota (Zagreb, Croatia): Sleep disorders in patients with diabetes
  Dijana Zadravec (Zagreb, Croatia): Leaping into the future of neuroimaging with a 3T MR
 
 
 
15:30-17:00
Hall B
CHALLENGES IN DELIRIUM / ACUTE BRAIN SYNDROME DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT
Chairperson: Dubravka Kalinić (Zagreb, Croatia) & Krešimir Radić (Zagreb, Croatia)
   
Dubravka Kalinić (Zagreb, Croatia): Delirium - pathophysiology and treatment
  Jelena Ivančić (Zagreb, Croatia): Prolonged Postoperative Delirium in Elderly - A Case Report
  Toma Perko (Zagreb, Croatia): Multiple Causes of Old Age Delirium
  Barbara Krejči (Zagreb, Croatia): Delirium Tremens Mistaken for Acute Psychosis and Vice Versa
  Milana Topić Petričić (Zagreb, Croatia): Multiple Delirium Episodes
  Anamarija Kovačić (Zagreb, Croatia): GHB Delirium Development and Management: Reporting Two Cases
   
17:30-19:00
Hall A
BEST POSTERS AWARDS PRESENTATIONS
Chairpersons: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Francesco Benedetti (Milan, Italy)
    
Sunday, 2.6.2024 .  
 
08:30-09:30
Hall A
INPC KURATORIUM, MIZMO & CEESS MEETING
09:30-10:00
Hall A
INDUSTRY-SPONSORED SESSION
10:00-11:00
Hall A
CLOSING
 
Workshops
1. 
My Way Workshop: Physical Activity after Stroke
10:30-10:50 A. Meštrović: Erasmus+ i My way projekt; Klinička slika moždanoga udara
10:50-11:10 P. Črnac: Zlatna pravila za pacijente i profesionalce; Fizička aktivnost za osobe koji su preživjeli moždani udar
11:10-11:30 P. Črnac: Statistika moždanoga udara, Identifikacija korisnih aktivnosti
11:30-11:50 H. Budinčević: Ne-neurološki aspekti pacijenata sa moždanim udarom;  Stratifikacija rizika
11:50-12:10 A. Meštrović: Vježbe za osobe koje su preboljele moždani udar; Resistance trening
12:10-12:30 A. Meštrović: Tehnologija i Telemedicina; Monitoring i praćenje
12:30-12:50 P. Črnac: Motivacija i Edukacija
12:50-13:00 Rasprava/pitanja i zaključci

2. Pula Neuropsychiatry Workshop
14:00-14:20 Ivica Šain (Pula, Croatia): Prevencija i zaštita od sindroma sagorjevanja " burn out "
14.20-14:40 Nika Spasić (Pula,Croatia): Očuvanje kognitivnog zdravlja
14.40-15:00 Nada Starčić (Rijeka, Croatia): Genetika neurodegenerativnih bolesti
15:00-15:20 Marijana Radić (Pula, Croatia): Utjecaj životnih navika u prevenciji cerebrovascularnih i neurodegenerativnih bolesti
15:20-15:30 Rasprava i zaključci


Program-at-glance



 

 

 


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