www.wasad2019.org
2nd International Congress of the
World Association for Stress Related
and Anxiety Disorders
in conjunction with the
Collaborative Research Center SFB TRR 58,
Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders (funded by the DFG)
Stress, Anxiety and Mental Health
03-05 October 2019
Würzburg, Germany
Final Program
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Congress Venue
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Building Z6
Hubland Süd (Zentrales Hörsaal- u. Seminargebäude)
Am Hubland
97074 Würzburg, Germany
Host Organization
World Association for Stress Related and Anxiety Disorders (WASAD)
Schwanenhof 4, 97070 Würzburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 931 – 207 90248; Fax: + 49 (0) 931 – 207 90246
Affiliate Organizer
SFB-TRR 58 Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders
Institut für Physiologie I, Robert-Koch-Straße 27, 48149 Münster, Germany
Congress Presidents
Prof. Dr. H. C. Pape, Germany; Prof. Dr. A. J. Fallgatter, Germany
Local Organizing Committee
Chairs: M. Gamer and P. Riederer, Germany
J. Deckert, Germany; M. Gamer, Germany; P. Pauli, Germany; P. Riederer, Germany;
M. Romanos, Germany
Scientific Committee
Chairs: H. C. Pape and A. J. Fallgatter, Germany
Scientific Committee WASAD
E. Binder, Germany, A.J. Fallgatter, Germany, J. Fayyad(†), Beirut, C. Jacob, Germany, J. Li, China,
H. Ozawa, Japan, A. Reif, Germany, T. Renner, Germany, P. Riederer, Germany, E. Seifritz,
Switzerland, S. Walitza, Switzerland
Scientific Committee SFB-TRR 58
C. Büchel, Germany, U. Dannlowski, Germany, K. Domschke, Germany, J. Haaker, Germany, C.
Heim, Germany, M. Gamer, Germany, K. Jüngling, Germany, H.C. Pape, Germany, P. Pauli,
Germany
Congress Information
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Session formats
Keynote Lectures
Keynote lectures of 60 minutes will be given by a distinguished and renowned expert and will
be devoted to a specific topic of major interest.
Symposia
These sessions of 90 minutes will focus on a particular topic and present the very latest data
related to it. The symposia will include four speakers who present their research followed by
discussion. These sessions will combine presentations by invited speakers and the best
submitted papers accepted for the congress by the scientific committees.
Posters
Authors present their latest research findings or ongoing research as posters.
Industry Sponsored Sessions
Industry sponsored sessions of 60 minutes are organized by the industry in consultation with
the scientific committee.
Information for speakers: We kindly ask all speakers to come to their assigned room 15 minutes before the session starts.
Please have your presentation ready in MS Powerpoint format on a USB stick. Please do not
bring your own laptop.
Someone will be available to assist you with uploading your presentation.
Information for poster presenters: We kindly ask all poster presenters to mount their poster on
Thursday, October 3rd, 13.15 - 17.00 or on Friday, October 4th, 08.15 - 11.00.
Assistance and mounting material (poster strips) are available.
Please see detailed program (p. 10) for the time you are requested to be present at your poster.
The posters can remain on display until Saturday, October 5th, 18.30 (removal by the author is
possible on Saturday afternoon), and will be removed by the organizers afterwards.
Three posters will be selected for a WASAD Poster Award (Award Ceremony during Closing
Session).
Rooms:
HS 0.001, HS 0.002 - ground floor
SR 1.012, SR 1.003 - 1st floor
CME points:
The scientific program of the congress is certified by the Bayerische Landesärztekammer (BLÄK)
with 22 CME points. Certificates can be obtained at the registration desk.
Please note that only presenting authors are stated in the program due to space restrictions. All
authors will be named in the printed abstracts.
Congress Information
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Thursday Oct 3rd
HS 0.001 HS 0.002 SR 1.012 SR 1.003
14.00-14.30
Opening ceremony, Welcome addresses
15.00-16.30
New insights into (dys-) regulation of fear and anxiety in rodents
Clinical perspectives in the treatment of anxiety disorders (GAF-Symposium)
Imaging of stress-induced brain functional changes
17.00-18.00
Keynote lecture by Rachel Yehuda
18.00-20.00
Welcome reception at the congress venue
Friday Oct 4th
HS 0.001 HS 0.002 SR 1.012 SR 1.003
09.00-10.00
Keynote lecture by Mathias Schmidt
10.30-12.00
How anxiety modulates attention
Stress resilience and vulnerability
Mapping mechanisms of gene x environment interaction in stress - from endophenotype to disease
12.15-13.15
Industry symposium
13.30-14.30
Keynote lecture by Martin Paulus
14.30-17.00
Poster session 15.30-16.30: WASAD General Assembly
17.00-18.30
Anxiety Disorders - Prediction, prevention and personalized therapy
Stress and dementia SGAD Symposium
Program overview
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Saturday Oct 5th
HS 0.001 HS 0.002 SR 1.012 SR 1.003
09.00-10.00
Keynote lecture by Brenda Penninx
10.30-12.00
Individual differences in fear and anxiety
Temperament, gene and nutrition in anxiety and related disorders
Clinical targets for stress related and anxiety disorders in children and adolescents
12.15-13.15
Industry symposium
Meeting of SFB TRR 58 members
13.30-14.30
Keynote lecture by Thomas Kash
15.00-16.30
Neural dynamics of aversive learning
(Maternal) Stress and its consequences: from animals to humans
Anxiety, depression and cognition in brain and heart
17.00-18.30
Telemedicine and mobile assessment in stress related disorders
Anxiety: genetics, social interactions and therapy
Adult ADHD and stress: cause or consequence?
18.45-19.00
Closing ceremony
Program overview
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Dear colleagues,
The World Association for Stress-Related and Anxiety Disorders (WASAD) aims to promote basic
research and to foster effective and safe treatments and prevention strategies for mental
illnesses related to abundant stress and anxiety. Such illnesses include depression, panic
disorders, social anxiety disorders, specific phobias or separation anxiety disorders, PTSD,
ADHD, sleep disorders and others. These are the most prevalent mental disorders and they are
definitely related to increased levels of stress and associated with immense health care costs
and a high burden of disease.
According to large population-based surveys, roughly one third of the population is affected by
an anxiety disorder during their lifetime. Substantial underrecognition and undertreatment of
these disorders have been shown and recent efforts underline the importance of resilience.
Untreated, stress related and anxiety disorders frequently follow a chronic course, and they are
highly comorbid with other mental disorders, in particular with affective and substance abuse
disorders. While research on pathophysiological mechanisms as well as diagnosis and treatment
made substantial progress during the last years, translation into clinical practice is still lacking
behind.
At this joint conference, WASAD and the "SFB-TRR 58, Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders” offer a
total of 23 scientific sessions addressing those problems and provide a forum for scientists,
clinicians, practicing physicians, psychotherapists, PostDocs and PhDs, students and other
health care professionals to exchange knowledge and experiences in the fields of basic and
clinical research and to transfer this information into successful clinical applications for the
benefit of our patients.
In this sense, we wish you all a fruitful and stimulating conference!
Yours sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Peter Riederer Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Fallgatter Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Pape
President WASAD Vice-President WASAD Coordinator SFB-TRR 58
and Congress President and Congress President
Welcome address
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14.00 - 14.30 | Opening Ceremony
HS 0.002
Welcome Addresses
Alfred Forchel, President, University of Würzburg
Matthias Frosch, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Würzburg
Andreas Fallgatter, Congress President
Hans Christian Pape, Congress President
Peter Riederer, President WASAD
15.00 - 16.30 | Parallel Sessions
HS 0.001
SFB Symposium | New insights into (dys-) regulation of fear and anxiety in rodents
Chair: Andreas Draguhn, Heidelberg, and Hans-Christian Pape, Münster
15.00 Gal Richter-Levin Studying neural mechanisms of stress vulnerability and
resilience in an animal model of PTSD
15.20 Philip Tovote Brainstem circuits mediating behavioral and autonomic
defensive states
15.40 Kay Jüngling Novel vistas on Neuropeptide S-mediated fear regulation from
a humanized mouse model
16.00 M. S. Fustiñana Encoding of social information by subpopulations of amygdala
neurons
HS 0.002
WASAD Symposium | Clinical perspectives in the treatment of anxiety disorders
(Symposium of the GAF)
Chair: Katharina Domschke, Freiburg, and Peter Zwanzger, Wasserburg
15.00 Andreas Ströhle D-cycloserine (DCS) adjunct treatment in combination with
cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
15.20 Miriam Schiele Prevention of anxiety disorders
15.40 Martin Herrmann Non-invasive brain-stimulation and its impact on extinction
learning
16.00 Julia Diemer Virtual reality as a new tool for the treatment of anxiety
Scientific Program – Thursday, October 3rd
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SR 1.012
WASAD Symposium | Imaging of stress-induced brain functional changes
Chair: Martin Walter, Jena, and Andreas J. Fallgatter, Tübingen
15.00 Marie-José van
Tol Imaging stress effects in depression and anxiety
15.20 Martin Walter Imaging of stress-induced brain functional changes
15.40 Janna Marie Bas-
Hoogendam
Neuroimaging results from the Leiden Family Lab study on
Social Anxiety Disorder: a multiplex, multigenerational
endophenotype study
16.00 Niklas Siminski Temporal unpredictability increases BNST and Amygdala
activity during threat processing
17.00 - 18.00 | Keynote Lecture HS 0.001
Chair: Elisabeth Binder, Munich
Rachel Yehuda, New York
Intergenerational effects of trauma
18.00 - 20.00 | Welcome Reception
Ground floor
Scientific Program – Thursday, October 3rd
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9.00 - 10.00 | Keynote Lecture HS 0.001
Chair: Norbert Sachser, Münster
Mathias Schmidt, Munich
Ramping up stress resilience: Genetic and environmental factors
10.30 - 12.00 | Parallel Sessions
HS 0.001
SFB Symposium | How anxiety modulates attention
Chair: Herta Flor, Heidelberg, and Matthias Gamer, Würzburg
10.30 Ernst Koster How to conceptualize, measure, and modify anxiety-related
attentional bias
10.50 Matthias Wieser Fear and anxiety in the visual brain - Differential visuocortical
processing of predictable and unpredictable threat
11.10 Dean Mobbs Space, time and anxiety: Survival decisions along defensive
circuits
11.30 Kati Roesmann Fear generalization of implicit conditioned facial features –
Behavioral and magnetoencephalographic correlates
HS 0.002
WASAD Symposium | Stress resilience and vulnerability
Chair: Annamaria Cattaneo, London, and Marco A. Riva, Milano
10.30 Annamaria
Cattaneo
Role of miRNA19 in the mechanisms associated with stress
vulnerability and stress resilience
10.50 Marco A. Riva Molecular signatures of prenatal stress exposure and
relevance for the susceptibility and resilience to mental illness
11.10 Hina Ghafoor Stress reactivity in individuals with high vs low interoceptive
accuracy
11.30 Soraya Seedat
Long-term effectiveness of prolonged exposure for adolescents
with PTSD using a task-shifted intervention: Randomised
controlled trial with supportive counselling as a comparator
Scientific Program – Friday, October 4th
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SR 1.003
WASAD Symposium | Mapping mechanisms of gene x environment interaction in stress -
from endophenotype to disease
Chair: Elisabeth Binder, Munich, and Thora Halldorsdottir, Reykjavik
10.30 Thora
Halldorsdottir
Neurobiology of self-regulation: Longitudinal influence of
FKBP5 early life stress on emotional and cognitive
development in childhood
10.50 Immanuel Elbau
A polygenic score of molecular sensitivity to GR-stimulation
maps to stress related changes of the brains hemodynamic
response function
11.10 Charlotte
Piechaczek
Interactions between FKBP5 variation and environmental
stressors in adolescent major depression
11.30 Alma Džubur
Kulenović
Posttraumatic stress disorder in a war-exposed sample from
Balkan countries: The impact of (epi-) genetic variation on
disease susceptibility and the severity of symptoms
12.15 - 13.15 | Industry Sponsored Session
SR 1.012
13.30 - 14.30 | Keynote Lecture HS 0.001
Chair: Paul Pauli, Würzburg
Martin Paulus, Tulsa
Computational models of anxiety
14.30 - 17.00 | Poster Session
Open areas on 1st and 2nd floor
List of posters: see pages 19-23
Posters with even numbers are to be presented between 14.30 and 15.45,
posters with odd numbers are to be presented between 15.45 and 17.00.
Scientific Program – Friday, October 4th
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17.00 - 18.30 | Parallel Sessions
HS 0.001
SFB Symposium | Anxiety Disorders – Prediction, prevention and personalized therapy
Chair: Andreas Papassotiropoulos, Basel, and Katharina Domschke, Freiburg
17.00 Vijaya
Manicavasagar
Separation anxiety grows up: an overview of separation
anxiety in adults
17.20 Marcel Romanos Developmental fear generalization
17.40 Katharina
Domschke Epigenetics of anxiety
18.00 Heike Weber Genetic variability of GLRB impact cognitive behavioral
therapy response in panic disorder
HS 0.002
WASAD Symposium | Stress and dementia
Chair: Peter Riederer, Würzburg, and Frank Jessen, Cologne
17.00 Frank Jessen The role of stress in the development of dementia
17.20 Paul J. Lucassen Early life stress and its programming effects and lasting
consequences
17.40 Ana Babić Perhoč
Stress and neuroinflammation as possible mediators of acute
cognitive dysfunction in a streptozotocin-induced rat model of
sporadic Alzheimer’s disease
18.00 Thomas Polak Anxiety in old age – data of the Vogel study
Scientific Program – Friday, October 4th
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SR 1.003
WASAD Symposium | Symposium of the SGAD (Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Angst und
Depression)
Chair: Erich Seifritz, Zurich, and Susanne Walitza, Zurich
17.00 Birgit Kleim Predictors of stress resilience
17.20 Boris Quednow
The effect of psychosocial and craving-induced stress on social
cognition and decision-making in cocaine users: a longitudinal
approach
17.40 Reto Huber The relationship between sleep and brain plasticity and its
relevance for psychiatric disorders
18.00 Hans Kalkmann Preclinical view on the mechanism of antidepressant activity of
eicosapentaenoic acid
Scientific Program – Friday, October 4th
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9.00 - 10.00 | Keynote Lecture HS 0.001
Chair: Marcel Romanos, Würzburg
Brenda Penninx, Amsterdam
Towards reducing the public health impact of anxiety disorders
10.30 - 12.00 | Parallel Sessions
HS 0.001
SFB Symposium | Individual differences in fear and anxiety
Chair: Tina Lonsdorf, Hamburg, and Ulrike Lüken, Berlin
10.30 Isaac R. Galatzer-
Levy
Hacking behavior to understand brain based disorders: the role
of computation to re-define clinical phenotypes
10.50 Kevin Hilbert
Using individual differences to construct machine learning
based models for single-subject classification and prediction in
anxiety and related disorders
11.10 Elisabeth Leehr
Theranostic markers for personalized therapy of spider phobia:
Methods of a bicentric external cross-validation machine
learning approach
11.30 Mario Reutter Do individual patterns of attentional exploration predict
differences in fear generalization?
Scientific Program – Saturday, October 5th
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HS 0.002
WASAD Symposium | Temperament, gene and nutrition in anxiety and related disorders
Chair: Hiroki Ozawa, Nagasaki, and Takeshi Inoue, Tokyo
10.30 Ken Yonezawa Relationship between omega-3 fatty acid and mental disorder
10.50 Yoshirou
Morimoto
Gene-based rare variants association test implicates PLA2G4E
as a risk gene for panic disorder
11.10 Takeshi Inoue Temperaments, child abuse and stressful events in anxiety and
related disorders
11.30 Jie Li Gene polymorphisms are associated with treatment-resistant
depression in Han Chinese
SR 1.012
WASAD Symposium | Clinical targets for stress related and anxiety disorders in children and
adolescents
Chair: Susanne Walitza, Zurich, and Lizbeth Utens, Amsterdam
10.30 Edna Grünblatt The link between the genetic risk load, anxiety and stress in
individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis
10.50 Lizbeth Utens
Anxiety in children with somatic conditions: outcome of CBT
and EMDR for the clinical targets IBD and congenital heart
disease
11.10 Ulrike Schmidt Potential DNA methylation and miRNA markers for
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
11.30 Madlena
Arakelyan Psychological risk factors of gifted adolescents
12.15 - 13.15 | Industry Sponsored Session
HS 0.002
Scientific Program – Saturday, October 5th
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13.30 - 14.30 | Keynote Lecture HS 0.001
Chair: Christian Büchel, Hamburg
Thomas Kash, Chapel Hill
The role of the extended amygdala in alcohol-drinking driven alterations in threat response
15.00 - 16.30 | Parallel Sessions
HS 0.001
SFB Symposium | Neural dynamics of aversive learning
Chair: Marta Andreatta, Würzburg, and Jan Haaker, Hamburg
15.00 Andreas Olsson Social learning and decision making under threat
15.20 Lauren Atlas Dissociable influences of anxiety on pain and arousal during
aversive reversal learning
15.40 Ute Habel Influencing and modulating factors of aggression and
impulsivity
16.00 Christian Büchel Neural mechanisms of fear generalization
HS 0.002
WASAD Symposium | (Maternal) Stress and its consequences: from animals to humans
Chair: Birgit Derntl, Tübingen, and Andreas J. Fallgatter, Tübingen
15.00 Liisa Galea Stress effects in postpartal depression
15.20 Birgit Derntl Stress and its consequences on cognition and emotion in
women and men
15.40 Maya Meentken Psychological outcomes after pediatric hospitalization: the role
of trauma type
16.00 Thorsten Mikoteit Truth lies in the hair: Prenatal hair steroids predict postpartum
depression
Scientific Program – Saturday, October 5th
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SR 1.012
WASAD Symposium | Anxiety, depression and cognition in brain and heart
Chair: Jürgen Deckert, Würzburg, and Stefan Frantz, Würzburg
15.00 Andreas Menke Investigating the brain-heart connection: the Depression
Associated Cardiac Failure (DACFAIL) Study
15.20 Stefan M. Schulz
A web-based intervention for improving psychosocial distress
in heart failure patients with an implantable cardioverter
defibrillator
15.40 Sarah Kittel-
Schneider
Anxiety, depression and heart function – The genetic
connection
16.00 Anna Frey Cognition matters in patients with chronic heart failure
17.00 - 18.30 | Parallel Sessions
HS 0.001
WASAD Symposium | Telemedicine and mobile assessment in stress related disorders
Chair: Tobias J. Renner, Tübingen, and Gudmundur Skarphedinsson, Reykjavik
17.00 Karsten Hollmann E-health interventions in pediatric OCD
17.20 Gudmundur
Skarphedinsson
Developing and implementing iCBT for pediatric obsessive-
compulsive disorder in Iceland
17.40 Sonja Kleih An online based stress management intervention for patients
with Parkinson’s disease
18.00 Kati Roesmann
Clinical, behavioral and magnetoencephalographic correlates
of fear generalization before and after virtual reality exposure
therapy in spider phobia
Scientific Program – Saturday, October 5th
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HS 0.002
WASAD Symposium | Anxiety: genetics, social interactions and therapy
Chair: Grit Hein, Würzburg, and Manuel Mattheisen, Würzburg
17.00 Manuel
Mattheisen
OCD genetics: updates from the Danish OCD and Tourette’s
study and the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
17.20 Angelika Erhardt Genetics and epigenetics of panic disorder
17.40 Grit Hein Social buffering of anxiety
18.00 André Pittig Expectancy violation as mechanism of change in exposure-
based cognitive-behavioural therapy
SR 1.012
WASAD Symposium | Adult ADHD and stress: cause or consequence?
Chair: Christian Jacob, Esslingen, and Gara Arteaga Henríquez, Barcelona
17.00 Gara Arteaga
Henríquez Cortisol awakening response and ADHD
17.20 Corina Greven ADHD and stress-reducing psychotherapy
17.40 Francisco Esteves Attention, eating disorders and body dissatisfaction
18.00 Sarah
Kittel-Schneider Chronic stress and quality of life in adult ADHD
18.45 - 19.00 | Closing Ceremony
HS 0.002
Awards Ceremony for poster awards
Closing remarks
Peter Riederer, Germany
Scientific Program – Saturday, October 5th
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Keynote speakers
Thomas Kash, Chapel Hill
Martin Paulus, Tulsa
Brenda Penninx, Amsterdam
Mathias Schmidt, Munich
Rachel Yehuda, New York
Speakers in plenary symposia
(listed in alphabetical order)
Madlena Arakelyan, Yerevan
Lauren Atlas, Bethesda
Ana Babić Perhoč, Zagreb
Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Leiden
Christian Büchel, Hamburg
Annamaria Cattaneo, London
Birgit Derntl, Tübingen
Julia Diemer, Wasserburg
Katharina Domschke, Freiburg
Alma Džubur Kulenović, Sarajevo
Immanuel Elbau, Munich
Angelika Erhardt, Munich
Francisco Esteves, Östersund
Anna Frey, Würzburg
M. S. Fustiñana, Basel
Liisa Galea, Vancouver
Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy, New York
Hina Ghafoor, Würzburg
Corina Greven, Nijmegen
Edna Grünblatt, Zurich
Ute Habel, Aachen
Thora Halldorsdottir, Reykjavik
Grit Hein, Würzburg
Gara Arteaga Henríquez, Barcelona
Martin Hermann, Würzburg
Kevin Hilbert, Berlin
Karsten Hollmann, Tübingen
Reto Huber, Zurich
Takeshi Inoue, Tokyo
Frank Jessen, Cologne
Kay Jüngling, Münster
Hans Kalkmann, Basel
Sarah Kittel-Schneider, Würzburg
Sonja Kleih, Würzburg
Birgit Kleim, Zurich
Ernst Koster, Ghent
Elisabeth Leehr, Münster
Jie Li, Tianjin
Paul J. Lucassen, Amsterdam
Vijaya Manicavasagar, Sydney
Manuel Mattheisen, Würzburg
Maya Meentken, Rotterdam
Andreas Menke, Würzburg
Thorsten Mikoteit, Solothurn
Dean Mobbs, Pasadena
Yoshirou Morimoto, Nagasaki
Andreas Olsson, Stockholm
Charlotte Piechaczek, Munich
Andre Pittig, Würzburg
Thomas Polak, Würzburg
Boris Quednow, Zurich
Gal Richter-Levin, Haifa
Mario Reutter, Würzburg
Marco Riva, Milano
Marcel Romanos, Würzburg
Kati Roesmann, Münster
Miriam Schiele, Freiburg
Ulrike Schmidt, Göttingen
Stefan M. Schulz, Würzburg
Soraya Seedat, Stellenbosch
Niklas Siminski, Würzburg
Gudmundur Skarphedinsson, Reykjavik
Andreas Ströhle, Berlin
Marie-José van Tol, Utrecht
Philip Tovote, Würzburg
Lizbeth Utens, Amsterdam
Martin Walter, Jena
Heike Weber, Würzburg
Matthias Wieser, Rotterdam
Ken Yonezawa, Nagasaki
Speakers
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Poster Session | Friday, October 4th, 14.30 - 17.00
Posters with even numbers are to be presented between 14.30 and 15.45,
posters with odd numbers are to be presented between 15.45 and 17.00.
Group A
1 Hessel, Margarita Münster Serotonergic system of the anterodorsal BNST is involved in phasic and sustained fear in freely behaving mice
2 Krakenberg, Viktoria
Münster Effect of serotonin transporter deficiency on the cognitive judgment bias of mice
3 Remmers, Floortje
Mainz
Towards highly specific genetic manipulation of the mouse cannabinoid CB1 receptor using CRISPR/Cas9: cell-type selective and region-specific CB1 knockout in the adult brain and generation of a CB1 point-mutation mouse line
4 Kästner, Niklas Münster Brain serotonin deficiency affects female aggression
5 Fiedler, Dominik Münster Impact of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor on synaptic transmission and plasticity in the oval nucleus of Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis
6 Hepbasli, Denis Würzburg OCD and neurodegeneration in SPRED2-deficient mice is associated with brain ventricle enlargement and ultrasonic vocalization changes
7 Jamil, Sara Münster Local deletion of Y2 receptors in BNSTav mediates extinction and return of remote fear memory
8 Hamann, Catharina
Würzburg Altered expression of genes related to the vasopressin and oxytocin brain systems: A study with 5-HTT deficient mice after experiencing prenatal stress
9 Zöller, Johanna Würzburg Stress-induced epigenetic programming in serotonin transporter deficient mice: Epigenetic editing – a strategy to cope with anxiety
10 Goedecke, Lena Münster A human relevant polymorphism in the Neuropeptide-S receptor (NPSR1 I107N) alters receptor signaling and fear-related behavior in mice
11 Cortes Cortes,
Orlando Jose Würzburg
Neuroanatomical tracing of glutamatergic brainstem circuits for behavioral and autonomic defense responses
12 Signoret-Genest, Jérémy
Würzburg Brainstem circuits for cardiac interoception and control of defensive states
13 Jüngling, Kay Münster Impact of the human neuropeptide-S receptor polymorphism (I107N) on fear and anxiety in mice
Posters
20
Group B
14 Fňašková, Monika Brno, Czech Republic
Life-long effects of extreme stress on brain structures – a holocaust survivor MRI study
15 Sperl, Matthias Marburg Temporal dynamics of threat processing: Modulation of event-related potential components during a sequential-set fear acquisition paradigm
16 Vietz, Melanie Würzburg Anxiety sensitivity as a modulator of fear generalization in healthy adults
17 Berking, Ann-Cathrine
Würzburg The role of DNA methyltransferases in anxiety disorders
18 Kollert, Leonie Würzburg The TGFB-Inducible Early Growth Response Protein 2 (TIEG2) gene as a new candidate in the etiology of panic disorder?
19 Segebarth, Dennis Würzburg Deep learning can increase the reliability, objectivity, reproducibility and transparency in image data analysis
20 Becker, Michael Münster Reward prediction error signaling during reinforcement learning in social anxiety disorder is altered by social observation
21 Nieratschker, Vanessa
Tübingen Investigation of MORC1 DNA methylation as biomarker of early life stress and depressive symptoms
22 Slyschak, Anna Würzburg Fear generalization in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study across ages
23 Stegmann, Yannik Würzburg Investigating attentional mechanisms during the interaction of phasic fear and sustained anxiety
24 Klinke, Christopher M.
Würzburg Distal stress induction facilitates fear memory consolidation
25 Krylova, Marina Tübingen Nx4 effect on stress-induced changes in EEG frequency powers
26 Wessing, Ida Münster Magnetoencephalographic correlates of fear generalization in adolescence
27 Riepl, Korbinian Würzburg Early negative attentional bias in persons with high depressive symptoms during a facial oddball task
28 Muehlhan, Markus
Hamburg Dose-dependent effects of cortisol on functional large-scale connectivity of the visual cortex
29 Avetyan, Diana Yerevan, Armenia
Association between rs734194 genetic variant of nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR) and peripheral telomere length with posttraumatic stress disorder
30 Rösler, Lara Würzburg Freezing of gaze supports action preparation under threat imminence
Posters
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31 Hohoff, Christa Münster Adenosine A1 receptor availability in healthy human brains: Modulation by interacting adenosinergic gene variants and sleep habit in anxiety-related brain regions
32 Weber, Heike Würzburg Allelic variation in PPID predisposes to anxiety disorders
33 Ridderbusch, Isabelle Caroline
Marburg Stability and reliability of the delayed extinction fMRI-paradigm of the multicentric trial PROTECT-AD
34 Leimeister, Franziska
Würzburg Subsequent memory effects in threat and safety learning
35 Schneider, Sarah Würzburg Modulation of pain by social stress - the role of positive and negative feedback
36 Herzog, Katharina Würzburg Reducing Generalization of Conditioned Fear: comparison of a fear-specific discrimination training with fear-unrelated control tasks
37 Merscher, Alma-Sophia
Würzburg Freezing of gaze in conditions that require distributed attention
38 Zillig, Anna-Lena Würzburg The influence of learned safety on pain perception
39 Boschet, Juliane Würzburg Temporal dynamics of costly avoidance in newly acquired fears
40 Winkler, Markus Würzburg Context conditioning and extinction in virtual reality: effects on self-report in anxiety patients
41 Glück, Valentina Marburg Habitual and goal-directed avoidance behavior: associations with trait anxiety
42 Smigielski, Lukasz Zurich, Switzerland
Associations between the genetic burden, anxiety and stress in the at-risk state for psychosis
43 Dubberke, Anne Trier
Sleep quality and salivary biomarkers: A pilot study connecting the cortisol awakening response and the dim light melatonin onset with an overnight polygraphy assessment
Posters
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Group C
44 Klement, Stephan Karlsruhe Single or multiple dose applications of Silexan do not impair fitness to drive – results from a placebo-controlled crossover trial
45 Asbrand, Julia Freiburg Repeated stress leads to enhanced cortisol stress response in child social anxiety disorder but this effect can be prevented with CBT
46 Kreifelts, Benjamin
Tübingen The neural correlates of face-voice-integration in social anxiety disorder
47 Seeger, Fabian Würzburg Associations between resting state connectivity, symptom severity and within-session extinction in the treatment of spider phobia
48 Schwarzmeier, Hanna
Würzburg Brain-morphometric predictors of within-session extinction during behavioral exposure in spider phobia
49 Goede, Wolfgang Munich Work tandems of psychiatry and anxiety self-help: Can research and society benefit from the collaboration of academic experts and experience experts?
50 Hasanagic, Senad
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herze-govina
Combination of aripiprazole and clozapine in first episode of psychosis and metabolic syndrome: report of five cases
51 Baumgartner, Noemi
Zurich, Switzerland
Inter-informant agreement of the Children’s Depression Rating Scale Revised in depressed children and adolescents
52 Junghöfer, Markus
Münster Excitatory transcranial direct current stimulation of the anterior ventromedial prefrontal cortex reveals add-on effects for the therapy of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
53 Li, Pan Tianjin, China
The comparative analysis of cognitive function and neuropsychiatric behavior between Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia patients
54 Scherf-Clavel, Maike
Würzburg How smoking cigarettes affects the serum concentrations of escitalopram
55 Scherf-Clavel, Maike
Würzburg Baseline HPA axis activity predict improvement in HPA axis function during antidepressant treatment
56 Lellouch, Laurent Paris, France
Vocal markers of pre-operative anxiety: a pilot study
57 Häberling, Isabelle
Zurich, Switzer-land
Anxious depression as a clinically relevant subtype of pediatric major depressive disorder
58 Herrmann, Martin Würzburg Non-invasive brain stimulation augments fear extinction
59 Breisinger, Sarah Würzburg
Association of pain relief for chronic musculoskeletal pain after interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment (IMPT) with serum concentrations of antidepressant drugs in a real-life analysis
60 Li, Shen Tianjin, China
The prevalence, risk factors of burnout in Chinese preschool teachers
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61 Sauter, Amelie Würzburg Heart rate variability associated with suicidality in depressed patients
62 Li, Jie Tianjin, China
Suicide rates changing in China and suicide prevention in Tianjin
63 Weber, Heike Würzburg Genetic variability of GLRB impact cognitive behavioral therapy response in panic disorder
64 Ziebell, Philipp Würzburg
Transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation as a new potential intervention for affective disorders - Recent findings and ideas for the future from a differential psychology perspective
65 Pfaffinger, Katharina F.
Munich Development and test of a new scale for the measurement of digital anxiety
66 Hellmuth, Anna Würzburg SGK1 signaling predict response in major depression
67 Andri, Andri Jakarta, Indonesia
Somatic Symptoms in Depression: Indonesian Perspective
68 Hock, Anja Würzburg Microdeletion syndrome 22q11.2 – Clinical and Molecular Characterization of a High-Risk Cohort
69 Wambura, Matiko Mwanza, Tanzania
Treatment overview of mentally ill patients at Bugando Medical Centre in Mwanza, Tanzania with a focus on PTSD, Depression and Anxiety
70 du Plessis, Stéfan
Stellen-bosch, South Africa
Childhood trauma and hippocampal subfield volumes in first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controls
Three poster award winners – one from each group, in order to represent the entire spectrum
of topics – will be selected by the award committee:
R. Blum, Würzburg; A. Fallgatter, Tübingen; J. Haaker, Hamburg; M. Herrmann, Würzburg;
C. Jacob, Esslingen; S. Kittel-Schneider, Würzburg; T. Lonsdorf, Hamburg; U. Lüken, Berlin;
A. Ströhle, Berlin
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Opening Hours of the industrial exhibition 3 October 2019: 13.30 – 18.00
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Catering: Coffee, cold drinks, snacks, and a light lunch are available in the catering area on the 2nd floor.
Changes of schedule at short notice: In case of necessary changes of schedule at short notice (cancellation or time changes of single
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Congress Venue: Zentrales Hörsaal- und Seminargebäude Z6, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg
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Society Profile The World Association for Stress-related and Anxiety Disorders, WASAD, is an independent non-
profit organization founded in 2016 by leaders of clinical and translational science.
Board: President: Prof. Dr. P. Riederer, Würzburg
Vice-President: Prof. Dr. A. Fallgatter, Tübingen
Secretary: Prof. Dr. T. Renner, Tübingen
Treasurer: Prof. Dr. C. Jacob, Esslingen
WASAD has set itself the goal:
To promote basic research on stress-related and anxiety disorders
To ensure effective and safe drug treatment and prevention strategies for these mental
illnesses
To make the interdisciplinary scientific findings suitable for clinical and psychological
institutions and their representatives
To offer the right framework for clinicians and practicing physicians, psychotherapists,
physicians and psychotherapists in training, students and health care professionals in
order to exchange knowledge and experiences in the fields of clinical and basic research,
stress, stress-related and anxiety disorders
To make recommendations to current therapy-relevant topics
To promote international contacts in this field
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The support of the following sponsors and exhibitors is gratefully acknowledged:
Sponsors
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Friday, 12.15 - 13.15 | Industry Sponsored Session
SR 1.012
Heel Symposium | Imaging All the data – what can and what can’t we get from
pharmacological and other interventional brain imaging studies on
stress and anxiety?
Chair: Martin Walter, Jena
12.15 Rupert
Lanzenberger
Chances and limitation for Multimodal MRI and PET imaging
studies on pharmacological mechanisms
12.35 Martin Walter Resting state and task fMRI insights on mechanisms of
mediation and complex therapeutics
12.55 Steven Williams Limitations and lessons learned from brain imaging studies –
implications for studies of stress and anxiety
Saturday, 12.15 - 13.15 | Industry Sponsored Session
HS 0.002
Janssen Symposium | Depression and Suicidality - from Neurobiology to clinical practice
Chair: Martin Walter, Jena, and Claus Normann, Freiburg
12.15 Claus Normann Depression
12.45 Martin Walter Suicidality
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Industrial Exhibition
Exhibitor Booth Number
Akademische Buchhandlung Knodt 5
daacro-Contract Research & Saliva Lab Trier 2
Heel GmbH 6
Janssen 4
neuraxpharm Arzneimittel GmbH 3
Recordati Pharma GmbH, Ulm 1
Schwabe Pharma Deutschland 7
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Disclosure
As organizer of the industrial exhibition, Interplan AG is obliged to disclose all sums received by
sponsors and exhibitors in order to comply with the regulations of the Bayerische
Landesärztekammer (BLÄK). For the industry partners mentioned below, we are herewith
informing about their overall support within the framework of the WASAD Congress 2019*.
Company Total Amount
daacro-Contract Research & Saliva Lab Trier 1.000,00 €
Heel GmbH 16.000,00 €
Janssen 15.000,00 €
neuraxpharm Arzneimittel GmbH 1.500,00 €
Recordati Pharma GmbH, Ulm 1.000,00 €
Schwabe Pharma Deutschland 1.000,00 €
*at the time of printing
Furthermore, WASAD wishes to acknowledge the support of
XXXLutz KG
Springer Nature
VENT e.V.
Dr. med. Edda Neele Stiftung
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