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The European Psychiatric Association (EPA) section Epidemiology together with the European Network of Schizophrenia Networks for the Study of Gene-environment Interactions (EU-GEI) proudly present their 2012 joint conference on the envirome and mental health.
The relationship between mental ill health and the environment is extremely topical. With the novel concept of "extended mind" - the notion that the mind is not "in" the brain but rather is a reflection of the causal interaction between cerebral representations and the environment - epidemiology urgently needs to devise novel ways to study onset of ill health from the environmental mind perspective. In addition, even though molecular genetic studies of psychiatric phenotypes have remained remarkably inconclusive, much of the genetic contribution to mental ill health and resilience may exert powerful effects through the environment. Furthermore, the effects of the environment on psychological mechanisms, the epigenome and brain structure and function can now be studied and brought together by interested epidemiologists. The challenge of combining all these perspectives for the purpose of research and treatment will be addressed during this conference. Top researchers and students together will endeavour to create clarity and bring the field forward.
Special attention will be given to work by PhD students and Postdocs, for whom reduced admission fees will apply and multiple prizes will be made available. Although the topic is about the envirome and mental health, we welcome any PhD contribution in the broadly defined area of psychiatric epidemiology, health services research, and culture and psychiatry.
The conference will hosted in association with EU-GEI, a major FP7 project on gene-environment interactions funded by the European Commission. Of course, we will also provide suitable social activities – an aspect we consider highly relevant in the beautiful and ancient Roman city of Maastricht.
Highly recommended!
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Confirmed Speakers
Richard Bentall (UK)
Dror Ben-Zeev (USA)
Elske Bos (NL)
Mary Cannon (IRE)
Philippe Delespaul (NL)
Ulrich Ebner-Priemer (DE)
Daniel Freeman (UK)
Inez Germeys (NL)
Louise Howard (UK)
Gunter Kenis (NL)
James Kirkbride (UK)
Tineke Lataster (NL)
Craig Morgan (UK)
Klaus Peter Lesch (DE)
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (DE)
Povl Munk-Jørgensen (DK)
Robin Murray (UK)
Erik Myin (BE)
Jim van Os (NL)
Bart Rutten (NL)
Jean-Paul Selten (NL)
Claudia Simons (NL)
Timothy Trull (USA)
Eva Velthorst (NL)
Marisol Voncken (NL)
Marieke Wichers (NL)
Ruud van Winkel (NL)
Stanley Zammit (UK)
Accreditation is requested for Dutch psychiatrists and psychologists (NVvP and FGzP) |
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Contact information: Maastricht University Medical Centre, Psychiatry & Psychology, Jolien Nivelle
P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands, T: +31 43 38 75 443, E-mail: info@epa-epidemiology2012.eu
Funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. HEALTH-F2-2010-241909 (Project EU-GEI)
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