Program
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Thursday, 29.5.2025
| 14:00-15:00 | Registration |
| 15:00-16:30 | PULA MS DAY - Panel discussion on MS management in Croatia Panelists: Dolores Janko Labinac (Pula, Croatia) & Sanja Tomasović (Zagreb, Croatia), Lidija Dežmalj Grbelja (Zagreb, Croatia), Silva Soldo Butković (Osijek, Croatia) |
| 15:00-16:30 | DYSPHAGIA SYMPOSIUM Chairpersons: |
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| 16:30-17:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 16:30-17:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 17:00-18:30 | Multiple Sclerosis Symposium Chairpersons: Uroš Rot (Ljubljana, Slovenia) & Osman Sinanović (Tuzla, BiH) |
| Uroš Rot (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Advantages and pitfalls of cerebrospinal fluid free kappa light chain determination in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and other neuroinflammatory diseases | |
| Aleksandra Galić / Željko Živanović (Novi Sad, Serbia): Multiple sclerosis and cerebrovascular diseases | |
| Osman Sinanović (Tuzla, BiH): Non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis: similarities and differences. | |
| 17:00-18:30 | Dementia Symposium - Keep Fit for Cognitive Benefit Chairpersons: V. Demarin & Filip Đerke |
| Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): Be ambitious about dementia prevention | |
| Filip Derke (Zagreb, Croatia): Challenges in detecting and managing mild cognitive impairment | |
| Jasna, Badžak (Zagreb, Croatia): Digital Dementia in the Internet Generation | |
| 18:30-19:00 | ACADEMIC LECTURE Ivana Rosenzweig (London, UK): The role of sleep in memory: known, unknown, unknown, not yet known to be unknown |
Friday, 30.5.2025 .
| 09:00-10:00 | OPENING CEREMONY |
| 10:00-11:30 | PLENARY SESSION Chairpersons: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Martin Brüne |
| Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): Arts, Brain and Cognition | |
| Martin Brüne: Adaptive introgression and neuropsychiatric diseases | |
| Karl Bechter: Updating the Peripheral CSF outflow hypothesis - now in part proven” | |
| Marina Roje Bedeković (Zagreb, Croatia): How did we get this far? - obesity challenges | |
| 11:30-13:00 | GRAZ Stroke Symposium: Management of subarachnoid hemorrhage. Chairpersons: Kurt Niederkorn (Graz, Austria) & Thomas Gattringer (Graz, Austria) |
| Thomas Gattringer (Graz, Austria): Workup of non-aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage | |
| Neurosurgeon (Graz, Austria): Management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage - Neurosurgery | |
| Hannes Deutschmann (Graz, Austria): Interventional Neuroradiology | |
| Alexander Pichler (Graz, Austria): Outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Neuropsychiatry Symposium: Overlapping mechanisms in neurodegeneration and mental health disorders Chairpersons: Jason Cannon & Ivana Munitic |
| Jason Cannon (West Lafayette, USA): Intersecting monoaminergic mechanisms of PFAS induced motor and reward alterations |
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| Ivana Munitic (Rijeka, Croatia): Of Mice and Men: OPTN variants in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia |
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| Daniel Foti (West Lafayette, USA): Environmental and neurophysiological underpinnings of human mental health disorders |
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| 11:30-13:00 | Autism / ADHD Symposium Chairpersons: Raphael Bene |
| Kosjenka Brajdic (Zagreb, Croatia): Autism in women | |
| Raphaël Béné (Lausane, Switzerland): Executive functions and neurodevelopmental disorders | |
| Marija Bolfan (Zagreb, Croatia): Sensory Challenges in Autism | |
| Leo Schillbach (Düsseldorf, Germany): TBA | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Psychiatry Symposium: Personality development and pathology in an evolutionary perspective |
| Simone Cheli (Florence, Italy): How evolution can inform the conceptualization and treatment of personality disorders | |
| Darko Marcinko, Zagreb: Evolutionary aspects of narcissism | |
| Martin Brüne, Bochum: Life History Strategies and Personality | |
| 14:00-15:30 | CEESS Symposium Chairpersons: Anita Arsovska (Skopje, N. Macedonia) & Hrvoje Budinčević (Zagreb, Croatia) |
| Marija Đurović (Belgrade, Serbia): Psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approach to the patient fighting obesity | |
| Bartłomiej Piechowski-Jóźwiak (Canberra, Australia): Sarcopenia and ageing | |
| Anita Arsovska (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Specific stroke risk factors in females | |
| Ivan Miškulin (Osijek, Croatia): The Burden of Stroke in Croatia - Facts and Figures | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 15:30-16:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 16:00-17:30 | Neurodegenerative Symposium Chairpersons: Miroslav Cuturic (Columbia, USA) & Gabriela Novotni (Skopje, N. Macedonia) |
| Miroslav Cuturic (Columbia, USA): Breaking Ground in Huntington's Disease - Latest Advances and Insights | |
| Vladimira Vuletić (Rijeka, Croatia): Integration of Technology in Movement Disorder | |
| Gabriela Novotni (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Decoding neurodegenerative diseases- from a clinician's perspective to precision medicine | |
| Anna Maria Malagoni (Italy): The key role of physical activity in preventing neurodegeneration | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Psychiatry Symposium: Psychiatry in neurology Chairpersons: Lana Mužinić Marinić |
| Igor Marinić: Mental disorders in multiple sclerosis | |
| Stipe Drmić : Psyciatric disorders in people with epilepsy | |
| Branka Aukst Margetić : Depression and headache | |
| Branimir Margetić: Depression and Alzheimer's disease | |
| 16.00-18.00 | Selected Oral Presentations (up to 10 - 10 min) |
| 17:30-18:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 17:30-18:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 18.00-19:30 | Poster Session Chairpersons: Martin Brüne, Kurt Niederkorn, Ivica Šain, Hrvoje Budinčević |
Saturday, 31.5.2025
| 09:00-10:30 | PLENARY SESSION Chairpersons: Francesco Benedetti (Milan, Italy) & Milan Latas (Belgrade, Serbia) |
| Milan Latas (Belgrade): Is there a connection between psychiatry and neurology in the current system of medicine? | |
| Francesco Benedetti: The kynurenine pathway at the crossroad between inflammation, neurovascular integrity, hemodynamic responses, and functional outcomes in mood disorders | |
| Ervina Bilić (Zagreb, Croatia): Novel treatment options for myasthenia gravis: our first results and future perspectives | |
| Radwa Khalil (Bremen, Germany): Achieving Harmony Among Multiple Goals Through Creative Thinking | |
| Johannes Schröder (Heidelberg, Germany): Neurological soft signs in transition phases of healthy aging: A decade long follow-up study of two age cohorts |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 10:30-11:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 11:00-12:30 | Headache Symposium |
| Marijana Bosnar Puretić (Zagreb, Croatia): Correlation between pain intensity and psychiatric symptoms in headache disorders | |
| Bojana Zvan (Ljubljana, Slovenia): CGRP antagonism in migraine and Guidelines of migraine treatment | |
| Marjan Zaletel (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Gender disparities in migraine and adapting therapy to patients needs. | |
| Milija Mijajlović (Belgrade, Serbia): Mysterious facial pain: treatment approach to trigeminal neuralgia | |
| Sonja Antić (Aarhus, Denmark) - Challenges in treatment of posttraumatic headache | |
| 11:00-12:30 | PNEI (psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology) approach to kynurenine pathway metabolism dysfunction symposium Chairpersons: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Sanja Toljan (Zagreb, Croatia) |
| Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): Kynurenine pathway and mitochondrial function in promoting longevity and healthspan | |
| Sanja Toljan (Zagreb, Croatia): Clinical approach to dysregulated tryptophan-kynurenine pathway | |
| Andrija Karačić (Zagreb, Croatia): Kynurenine pathway metabolism and the microbiota-gut-brain axis | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Psychiatry Symposium: Neurocognition in neuropsychiatry Chairperson: Dalibor Karlović (Zagreb, Croatia) |
| Vjekoslav Peitl (Zagreb, Croatia): Cognition in Parkinsons disease | |
| Ante Silić (Zagreb, Croatia): Non-moniamine hypotheses in treatment of psychiatric disorders with cognition in mind | |
| Vlahovic (Zagreb, Croatia): TMS coilwise | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Psychopathology Summer School - Novel approaches to schizophrenia research and practice Chairpersons: Karl Bechter & Martin Brüne |
| Karl Bechter, Günzburg: CSF diagnostics in psychiatry - indications based on psychopathology |
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| Margherita Bechi, Milan: brief vs long metacognitive training for patients with schizophrenia | |
| Giulia Agostoni, Milan: A combination of cognitive remediation and physical exercise in patients with schizophrenia |
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| Karl Bär, Jena: A novel approach to structural brain morphometry in schizophrenia | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Epilepsy Symposium Chairperson: Silvio Bašić (Zagreb, Croatia) |
| Silvio Basic (Zagreb, Croatia): Epilepsy pharmacoresistance | |
| Željka Petelin Gadže (Zagreb, Croatia): Epilepsy and cardiovascular comorbidities - new insights | |
| Ana Sruk: Cognitive impairment in people with epilepsy | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 15:30-16:00 | Satellite Symposium |
| 16:00-17:00 | Best posters awards presentations & closing Chairpersons: Vida Demarin & F. Benedetti |
We look forward to welcoming you to Pula in-person event! The Administrative Secretariat is pleased to assist you with further details.
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