Category: MEETING
27th ISEN Meeting, San Diego, May 21st
The ISEN Meeting will take place in San Diego, MAY 21ST, 2017 at THE WESTIN SAN DIEGO GASLAMP QUARTER HOTEL. To register online, https://www.isen-ect.org/ect-certificate-course#registration. 8:30 a.m. Morning Symposium—Understanding and Improving the Cognitive Outcomes of ECT [Colleen Loo, MBBS, FRANZCP, MD—Chair] - Cognitive Effects of ECT: A Patient’s Perspective [Carol Kivler, MS, CSP, …
Free 2-day International ECT-workshop in Aachen
ECT-Workshop of the German Speaking Countries in Cooperation with the ECT-Groups of The Netherlands and Belgium March 24th and 25th, 2017 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Uniklinik RWTH Aachen Friday, 24.03.2017 11.30 – 12.00 Registration and Coffee 12.00 – 12.15 Address of Welcome Frank Schneider – Aachen 12.15 – …
Life Saving Therapy for SIB in Autism.
“Once Kyle’s treatment started, a whole new person emerged”, a mother of a boy with autism and self-injurious behavior says. “As time went on, he just kept on getting better and better.” In the October issue of The Atlantic, Apoorva Mandavilli publishes an interesting account on the sometimes life-saving use …
ECT is hot @ WFSBP Copenhagen 2017
Several symposia, including a high number of EFFECT-members, are accepted for the WFSBP meeting in june 2017. On June 18 (14:30 h) Grözinger and Frieling (Germany) co-chair a symposium on ‘Effects and Side-effects of ECT’ Effects of ECT on the oxygen saturation in the frontal brain (M. Grözinger, Germany) DNA …
Brain Stimulating Barcelona!
Barcelona is the host city for the 2nd International Brain Stimulation meeting, 5 – 8 March 2017 in NH Hesperia Towers. The conference is organized by Elsevier and sponsored by the journal Brain Stimulation. The first meeting, in Singapore was very successful and stimulating. Visit the conference website. On march 5th, a 10 …
Irish Times interviews Declan McLoughlin
Electroconvulsive therapy – does it work? the Irish Times titles in an interview with Prof Declan McLoughlin, research professor of psychiatry at St Patrick’s University Hospital and Trinity College Dublin, and board member of EFFECT. “It’s an odd treatment in that it’s actually been around for 80 years, so a …
ECT-MEETING AACHEN 2017 – SAVE THE DATE
On March 24-25, 2017, a European Workshop on Electroconvulsive Therapy will be held in the border triangle at Aachen. Schedule: Friday, March 24th, 2017, 12:00 to Saturday, 25th, 14:30 Location: Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapie and Psychosomatics, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstr. 30, Aachen The meeting is sponsored by the ECT groups of Austria, …
9TH ANNUAL MEETING AMSTERDAM 2015
On monday Aug 31, 2015, the 9th Annual Meeting of EFFECT was held at the ‘Nieuwe Valeriuskliniek’ in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Our host, prof dr Max Stek (The Netherlands) introduced the audience to the research data from the Belgian-Dutch research Consortium ResPECT (Research in Psychiatry and ECT). Following topics were discussed– Current trends in …
10 YEAR EFFECT
2006 . Founding Meeting – Leuven, Belgium2006 . 1st Annual Meeting – Paris, France2007 . 2nd Annual Meeting – Vienna, Austria2008 . 3rd Annual Meeting – Barcelona, Spain2009 . 4th Annual Meeting – Istanbul, Turkey2010 . 5th Annual Meeting – Amsterdam, The Netherlands2011 . 6th Annual Meeting – Prague, Tsjech …