Section Board
Aims & Objectives
Section's mission
The EPA section “Schizophrenia” is aimed to promote high standards in research, training and clinical practice in its field of interest and to fight the stigma related to the diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Section's objectives
- To disseminate updated knowledge relevant to etiopathogenesis, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia
- To favour cultural exchanges and cross-fertilization among different approaches to the study of this complex diagnostic entity
- To promote early diagnosis and identification of at risk subjects
- To raise standards of care
- To address ethical issues in research and clinical care involving people with schizophrenia
- To identify unmet needs and means to address them
- To develop and deliver training courses for undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development
- To compare clinical service, training, research and policy across Europe
Activities
Meetings/events
Educational Courses
Description:2014 - EPA Educational Course
Recognizing and assessing negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia (Director: Silvana Galderisi; Co-Director: Armida Mucci) - Within the 22nd EPA Congress (Munich, Germany, 1-4 March, 2014)
2015 - EPA Educational Course
Neurocognitive and social cognition training in schizophrenia (Director: Gabriele Sachs, Co-Director: Armida Mucci) - Within the 23rd EPA Congress (Vienna, Austria, 28-31 March, 2015)
2017 - EPA Educational Course
Assessing cognitive impairment in patients with schizophrenia using a brief interview-based instrument: the cognitive assessment interview (Director: J. Ventura, U.S.A.; Co-Director: A. Mucci, Italy) - Within the the 25th EPA Congress (Florence, Italy, 1-4 April, 2017)
2017 - EPA Itinerant Course
Recognizing and assessing negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia (Director: Armida Mucci; Peer reviewer: Professor Esmina Avdibegovic (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 18, 2017
Section Symposia
Description:SECTION SYMPOSIA IN 2014
Within the 22nd EPA Congress, held in Munich, Germany, 1-4 March, 2014, the Section on Schizophrenia organized the following Section symposia.
1) Section Symposium: Improving physical health in people with schizophrenia (Chairpersons: W. Gaebel, S. Galderisi; Speakers: A. Mitchell, A. Montejo, N. Sartorius);
SECTION SYMPOSIA IN 2015
Within the 23rd EPA Congress, held in Vienna, Austria, 28-31 March, 2015, the Section on Schizophrenia organized the following Section symposia.
1) Section Symposium in collaboration with the Section on Forensic Psychiatry: The "mad axman": the relationship between psychosis and violence (Chairpersons: Birgit Völlm and Silvana Galderisi; Speakers: Fazel Seena, Giovanni Stanghellini, Julian Neil Beezhold) which has been awarded with the Section Symposium Award.
2) Section symposium Sub-threshold psychotic experiences in the general population (Chairpersons: S. Galderisi, W. Gaebel; Speakers: Ruud van Winkel, Wulf Roessler, Mike Jackson, Paolo Fusar-Poli).
SECTION SYMPOSIA IN 2016
Within the 24th EPA Congress, held in Madrid, Spain, 12-15 March, 2016, the Section has organized the following Section symposia.
1) Inter-Section Symposium in collaboration with the Section on Psychopathology: Hallucinations and Delusions in Schizophrenia: From Phenomenology to Neurobiology (Chairpersons: S. Galderisi; M. Musalek; Speakers: G. Stanghellini; I. Melle; T. Dierks), which has been awarded with the Section Symposium Award.
2) Section symposium: Is Schizophrenia a Disorder of Brain Connectivity? (Chairpersons: S. Galderisi; W. Gaebel; Speakers: S. Walther; S. Borgwardt; G. Wagner).
3) Inter-Section Workshop in collaboration with the Section on Psychopathology: Schizophrenia Research: The Necessary Link between Psychopathology and Clinical Neuroscience (Chairpersons: M.L. Figueira; S. Galderisi; Speakers: A. Erfurth; F. Oyebode; G. Sachs; E. Pomarol-Clotet).
SECTION SYMPOSIA IN 2017
Within the 25th EPA Congress, held in Florence, Italy, 1-4 April, 2017, the Section has organized the following Section symposia.
1) Inter-Section Symposium in collaboration with the Section on Neuroimaging: Negative symptoms: phenomenology, clinical aspects and neuroimaging (Chairpersons: S. Galderisi, Italy; P. Brambilla, Italy; Speakers: A. Raballo, Norway; A. Mucci, Italy; S. Borgwardt, Switzerland; M. Lepage, Canada).
2) Inter-Section Symposium organized in collaboration with the Section on Prevention of Mental Disorders: Early detection and early intervention for psychosis – the european status and perspectives (Chairpersons: J. Klosterkötter, Germany; S. Galderisi, Italy; Speakers: N. Marìc, Serbia; A. Raballo, Norway; S. Ruhrmann, Germany; S. Galderisi, Italy).
3) Inter-Section Symposium: organized in collaboration with the Section on Psychopathology: Schizophrenia and clinical psychopathology: from research to clinical practice (Chairpersons: M.L. Figueira, Portugal; S. Galderisi, Italy; Speakers: E. Pomarol-Clotet, Spain; G. Sachs, Austria; A. Tortorella, Italy; A. Erfurth, Austria).
4) Section symposium: Social cognition in schizophrenia: pathophysiology, functional implications and treatment options (Chairpersons: P. Rocca, Italy; G. Sachs, Austria; Speakers: P. Rocca, Italy; G. Sachs, Austria; A. Mucci, Italy; A. Aleman, The Netherlands).
Section Workshops
Description:SECTION WORKSHOPS IN 2014
Within the 22nd EPA Congress, held in Munich, Germany, 1-4 March, 2014, the Section on Schizophrenia organized the following Section workshops.
1) Section Workshop: New treatment options for people with schizophrenia: focus on stimulation techniques (Chairpersons: S. Galderisi, W. Gaebel; Speakers: R. van Lutterveld, T. Dierks, T. Wobrock, J. Brunelin);
SECTION WORKSHOPS IN 2015
Within the 23rd EPA Congress, held in Vienna, Austria, 28-31 March, 2015, the Section on Schizophrenia organized the following Section workshops.
1) Section Workshop: Negative symptoms, cognitive impairment and social cognition in schizophrenia (Chairpersons: S. Galderisi, W. Gaebel; Speakers: Armida Mucci, Stefan Kaiser, Ann Faerden, Jozarni Dlabac-De Large).
SECTION WORKSHOPS IN 2016
Within the 24th EPA Congress, held in Madrid, Spain, 12-15 March, 2016, the Section has organized the following workshops.
1) Section Workshop: The Assessment of Negative Symptoms: Achievements and Perspectives (Chairpersons: S. Galderisi; W. Gaebel; Speakers: M.P. García-Portilla Gonzalez; S. Kaiser; A. Mucci; S. Dollfus).
2) Inter-Section Workshop in collaboration with the Section on Psychopathology: Schizophrenia Research: The Necessary Link between Psychopathology and Clinical Neuroscience (Chairpersons: M.L. Figueira; S. Galderisi; Speakers: A. Erfurth; F. Oyebode; G. Sachs; E. Pomarol-Clotet).
SECTION WORKSHOPS IN 2017
During the 25th EPA Congress, held in Florence, Italy, 1-4 April, 2017, the Section has organized the following Section workshops.
1) Inter-Section workshop organized in collaboration with the Section on Psychopharmacology: Treatment-resistant schizophrenia: from clinical assessment to alternative treatment (Chairpersons: M. Isohanni, Finland; J. Usall, Spain; Speakers: J. Seppala, Finland; I. De Vita, Italy; K. Rubinstein, Israel; I. Corripio, Spain).
Section Business Meeting
Description:2014 - Section business meeting (March 3, 2014, Munich, Germany, during the 22nd EPA Congress)
2015 - Section business meeting (March 29, 2015, in Vienna, Austria, during the 23rd EPA Congress)
2016 - Section business meeting (March 15, 2016, Madrid, Spain, during the 24th EPA Congress)
2017 - Section business meeting (April 4, 2017, Florence, Italy, during the 25th EPA Congress).
Publications
Proposed guidance paper:
"Assessment and treatment of negative symptoms"
JournalEuropean Psychiatry
Authors
S. Galderisi, A. Mucci, M. Nordentoft, S. Dollfus, S. Kaiser, W. Gaebel
Acknowledged as official Section publication? Yes
Proposed guidance paper: "Assessment and treatment of cognitive impairment"
JournalEuropean Psychiatry
Authors
S. Galderisi, W. Gaebel, A. Vita, G. Sachs, A. Mucci
Acknowledged as official Section publication? Yes
