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 – 12.30 Program and Announcements
Michael Grözinger – Aachen
12.30 – 14.00 Chair: Bas Verwey – Arnheim, The Netherlands
12.30 – 13.00 D.S. Scheepens and J.B. Zantvoord, Amsterdam – The Effects of ECT on Brain Structure in Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
13.00 – 13.30 Thomas Nickl-Jockschat, Aachen – Neurotrophic Effects of ECT: Detectable by Structural MRI?
13.30 – 14.00 Jasmien Obbels, Kortenberg – ECT-related Anxiety: A Review
14.00 – 14.30 Break
14.30 – 16.30 Chair: Pascal Sienaert – Kortenberg, Belgium
14.30 – 15.00 Miriam Brunner, Aachen – Effects of Stimulus Intensity on Seizure Quality: A Comparison of Brief vs. Ultrabrief Pulse ECT
15.00 – 15.30 Hildegard Janouschek, Aachen – The Impact of Seizure Quality on ECT Treatment Efficacy
15.30 – 16.00 Alexander Sartorius, Mannheim – Ictal Parameters as Response Predictors
16:00 – 16:30 Linda van Diermen, Amsterdam – Prediction of ECT Response and Remission in Major Depression: A Meta-analysis
16.30 – 17.00 Break
17.00 – 18.40 Chair: Michael Grözinger – Aachen, Germany
17.00 – 17.20 Mustafa Cicek, Oberwil-Zug – Spontaneous Seizure from Remifentanil Induction during Electroconvulsive Therapy
17.20 – 17.40 Christiane Först, Bad Zwischenahn – ECT as an Effective Treatment of Organic Pseudo-Hallucination in an Elderly Patient
17.40 – 18.00 H. Himmighoffen and A. Brühl, Zürich – Treatment of Chronic Catatonia in a 16-year Old Girl 2
18.00 – 18.20 B. Haarman and H. Warning, Groningen – ECT in a 12-Year-Old Depressed Boy with High Suicide Risk
18:20 – 18:40 Anja Ludwig-Zahl, Aachen – ECT against the Natural Will: An Example
18.45 Departure for Dinner
Saturday, 25.03.2017
08.30 – 09.00 Coffee
09.00 – 10.30 Chair: Jan Di Pauli – Rankweil, Austria
09.00 – 09.30 T.K. Birkenhager, Rotterdam – Influence of Age on the Efficacy of ECT in Major Depression
09.30 – 10.00 Max Stek, Amsterdam – Late Life Depression: Brain Characteristics and Response to ECT
10.00 – 10.30 Didi Rhebergen, Amsterdam – ECT and Functional Neurological Symptoms: the Importance of Thorough Examination of Phenomenology
10.30 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.30 Chair: Annette Brühl – Zurich, Switzerland
11.00 – 11.30 J.B. Zantvoord, Amsterdam – Electroconvulsive Therapy Augmentation in Clozapine-resistant Schizophrenia: New Hope or False Dawn?
11.30 – 12.00 Thorsten Folsche, Göttingen – ECT and Cognitive Functioning in Patients with Schizophrenia
12.00 – 12.30 Hannah Maier, Hannover – Homocysteine, Vitamin B12, Folic Acid and S100-Plasma-Level in the Course of ECT Treatments
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 Chair: Claudius Rautmann – Bruneck, Italy
13.30 – 14.00 Gabor Gazdag, Budapest – Changes in ECT Practice in the Last 12 Years in Hungary
14:00 – 14.30 Bas Verwey, Arnheim – Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of ECT in The Netherlands. Results of a Questionnaire Study from 2015
14:30 – 15.00 Marc Burgers, Amsterdam – Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression and its Effect of Remission on Autobiographical Memory Loss
15:00 – 15:30 Michael Grözinger, Aachen – Resume and Outlook
Organisation
Michael Grözinger, Jessica Junger, Yvonne Balloumi, Tel. +49 241 80-89763 and -37088
Email : mgroezinger@ukaachen.de, yballoumi@ukaachen.de
Location
Lecture room 6 of the Uniklinik Aachen (main floor), Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen
Registration
The workshop is free of charge, friday evening dinner has to be paid individually. Please register at mgroezinger@ukaachen.de and let us know about your participation in the dinner 4
Directions
By car
At Aachener Kreuz take Holland- Linie in the direction of Antwerpen/Heerlen (A4), leave motorway at exit ramp No. 2 „Aachen-Laurensberg“, follow Kohlscheider Str. on L260, via Toledoring and Pariser Ring. Follow signs „Uniklinik“ until reaching Pauwelstraße 30 in 52074 Aachen. Fee-based parking in front of University Hospital Aachen.
By train and bus
Aachen has an ICE rail station and is well connected to the national train service. Bus stops are to be found at station square in front of the station.
From here, bus number 3B (bus stop 2) leaves towards University Hospital Aachen at regular intervals.
If you go by bus, get off the bus at bus stop „Aachen, Uniklinik” in front of the main building of University Hospital Aachen (from Aachen station 8 stops).
Latest timetables and further bus connection in Aachen available at www.aseag.de.