Outline of the scientific programme
MONDAY 13.05.2019
16:00 – 18:00
Registration
18:00 – 22:00
Opening ceremony
TUESDAY 14.05.2019
09:00 – 10:00 Rafal Rygula (Krakow) Pessimism as cognitive biomarker of depression
in an animal model
10:00 – 10:30 Karolina Noworyta-Sokolowska (Krakow) Using rodents to model abnormal sensitivity to
feedback in depression
10:30 – 11:00 Junior researcher talk:
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Vikki Neville (Bristol) Computational modelling of cognitive judgement
bias data
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break and poster session
11:30 – 12:30 Janna Vrijsen (Nijmegen) Memory bias modification for depression
12:30 – 13:00 Junior researcher talks:
· Annemiek
M Bergman (Nijmegen) Does
comorbidity with Autism Spectrum Disorder affect the depressotypic bias in
depressed psychiatric patients? An eye-tracking study
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Fleur Duyser (Nijmegen) Negative memory bias: a transdiagnostic cognitive marker for psychopathology
13:00
– 14:30 Lunch
14:30
– 15:30 Susannah Murphy (Oxford) Using
experimental models of affective bias to optimise the treatment of depression
15:30
– 16:30 Junior researcher talks:
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Justyna Hinchcliffe (Bristol)
Further validation of the affective bias test for predicting antidepressant and
pro-depressant risk
·
Tereza Miketa (Oxford)
Effects of behavioural activation on emotional cognition and mood (protocol)
16:30
– 17:00 Coffee break and poster session
17:00
– 18:00 Reinout Wiers (Amsterdam) On the use of
cognitive bias modification in the treatment of alcohol use disorders
18:00
– 18:30 Junior researcher talk:
·
Tristan J. Hynes (Vancouver) Chemogenetic
inhibition of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons prevents cocaine-induced
deficits in decision making in both sexes
19:00
– open Dinner
WEDNESDAY 15.04.2019
07:00
– 09:00 Breakfast
10:00
– 18:00 Full day of Krakow sightseeing tour and boat
trip on the Vistula river to Tyniec monastery
19:00
– open Dinner
THURSDAY 16.05.2019
09:00
– 10:00 Emma Robinson (Bristol) Could
modulation of affective biases explain the efficacy of ketamine and other rapid
onset antidepressants in major depressive disorder?
10:00
– 11:00 Junior researcher talks:
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Charalampos Organtzidis (Bristol)
Different methods for assessing cognitive affective biases in rats using the
judgement bias task
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Viktoria Krakenberg (Munster)
Effect of serotonin transporter deficiency on cognitive judgement bias of mice
in a translational touchscreen test
11:00
– 11:30 Coffee break and poster session
11:30
– 12:30 Lubor Kostal (Bratislava) Studying affect
induced judgement bias in birds
12:30
– 13:00 Junior researcher talks:
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Andrew Crump (Belfast) Is
the grass half-full? Investigating optimism as a welfare indicator for dairy
cows with and without pasture-access
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Benjamin Lecorps (Vancouver)
Optimism and the welfare of dairy calves
13:00
– 14:30 Lunch
14:30
– 15:30 Emily Bethell (Liverpool) Studying
cognitive bias in non-human primates: emerging trends and future direction
15:30
– 16:00 Junior researcher talks:
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Zuzana Skalná (Bratislava)
Does tickling induce positive affective states in laying hens?
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Yumi Saito (Tokyo) Empathy via
emotional vocalizations in rats
16:00
– 16:30 Coffee break and poster session
16:30
– 17:30 Catharine Winstanley (Vancouver)
Of rats and men: rodent models of cognitive biases in decision making under
uncertainty
17:30
– 18:30 Zofia Prokop (Krakow) Deluded ape.
Evolutionary perspective on human cognitive biases, suffering, and wellbeing
19:00
– open Dinner
FRIDAY 17.05.2019
07:00
– 09:00 Breakfast
09:00
– 12:00 Departure
