Pre-congress workshops

List of Pre - Congress Workshops – Teaching Days Eating Disorders Alpbach 2004 - 2016

Pre Conference Workshops, June 5

Over the past decade, considerable research has linked traumatic experiences, including childhood trauma, to the development of psychotic symptoms. More recently, the concept of dissociation has been connected to psychosis, particularly auditory hallucinations, as well as to the historical conception of schizophrenia. In this workshop, Professor Andrew Moskowitz, the lead editor of ‘‘Psychosis,...

Pre-Congress Workshop on Reactions and Neuritis

A pre-print of a paper in press, by Indira Kawahita and Diana Lockwood, was distributed. Presentations on pathology, immunology, and gene profiling were discussed. The requirement for PMN’s and vasculitis as diagnostic criteria as a criterion of ENL were discussed, noting that in a series from India, only 44% of biopsies of clinical ENL showed vasculitis. The issue of timing of the biopsy was d...

Pre Conference Workshops And Opening Keynote Address, June 6

In the recent past, several neuroimaging studies aimed at evaluating the neural correlates of PTSD-related psychotherapies revealing their neurobiological effects on brain function. Functional studies by single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and electroencephalography (EEG) detected changes in cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation patterns, identifying the brain areas implica...

Pre - Congress Workshop I – ‘ New Diagnostics and Molecular Epidemiology ’ , 17 th International Leprosy Congress

9:00 Welcome Annemiek Geluk LUMC ‘Development of novel T cell assays for detection of M. leprae infection’ Linda Oskam, KIT, The Netherlands ‘New and improved opportunities for serological KIT, testing in leprosy’ John Spencer, CSU, USA ‘Use of Western blot, ELISA and protein microarrays to define disease-state-specific antigenic profiles in leprosy patients’ Sang-Nae Cho, YUMC, Korea ‘Enzyme i...