• Founding Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, Feb 3-5, 2006 • 1st Annual Meeting, Paris, France, Sep 18, 2006 • 2nd Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, tue 16 Oct, 2007
• 3rd Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2008
• 4th Annual Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, Sept 15, 2009
5th annual meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sunday August 29, 2010.
Venue: VU medisch centrum Locatie ZH -1 C 118.17, Waver De Boelelaan 1117 1081 HA Amsterdam
program
3rd Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2008 Eurostars Grand Marina Hotel 5* Moll de Barcelona, s/n - West Building 08039 Barcelona
· Barcelona Picture Gallery
2nd Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria, tue 16 Oct, 2007
Hörsäle am Südgarten Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Medizinische Universität Wien Währinger Gürtel 18-20 1090 Vienna Austria
· Vienna Picture Gallery
· Statistical vs clinical relevance of memory data in ECT: Tom Bolwig (Denmark)
· Results from the CORE-research: Charles Kellner (United states)
· ECT vs pharmacotherapy: time to relapse and long-term outcome of a population of affective inpatients: Gabrielle Sani (Italy)
· An investigation of attitudes towards ECT amongst psychiatric patients, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and lay people in Ireland: Chiara Besani (Ireland)
· A Comparison of Right Unilateral Ultrabrief pulse (0.3 ms) ECT and standard Right Unilateral ECT: Colleen Loo (Australia)
· A Comparison of Ultrabrief Bifrontal and Unilateral ECT: Pascal Sienaert (Belgium)
· ECT works. How?: Max Fink (United States)
· Mood improvement with ECT is correlated with reduction in pro-inflamatory markers: Gavin Rush (United Kingdom)
· Central and peripheral BDNF levels in a rat model of ECT: Alexander Sartorius (Germany)
· Electroconvulsive stimulations prevent stress-induced morphological changes in the hippocampus: Martin Balslev-Jørgensen (Denmark)
· Poster Abstracts
· General Membership meeting, Chair: Susan Benbow (United Kingdom)
· Report from the Meeting as published in the Association of Convulsive Therapy Newsletter, Charles Kellner (United States)
1st Annual Meeting, Paris, France, Sep 18, 2006
1st Annual Meeting, Paris, Sep 18, 2006 Regina Hotel, 2 Place des Pyramides, 75001 Paris, France • Welcome address by the president of the board: Tom Bolwig
• ECT responsive syndromes: melancholia, delirium, catatonia: Max Fink
• A randomised controlled trial with six-month follow-up of rTMS and ECT for severe depression: Declan McLoughlin
• ACE gene polymorphism and speed of response to ECT: Thomas Baghai
• Adverse cognitive effects, cognitive rehabilitation, and attitudes towards ECT: Maeve Mangaoang
• Raising standards of ECT practice: two national projects: Chris Freeman
• fMRI changes following ECT in affective disorders: Björn Wahlund
• ECT for treatment of a malignant chronic form of depression: Athanasios Koukopoulos
• ECT survey in Hungary and future European ECT survey: Gabor Gazdag
Minutes of the meeting
Summary of the meeting as published in the Association of Convulsive Therapy Newsletter Charles Kellner
Founding Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, Feb 3-5, 2006
Picture Gallery
Tom Bolwig (Denmark)
