It is well known that stressful experience can shape memories. For instance, emotional experiences are usually better remembered and at the same time during a stressful experience people tend to have a selective focus, leading to specific but not always accurate memories. How this can be and which factors are important in this relation will be discussed and explained by experts in the field. We will invite people working in Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurobiology.

Apart from interesting lectures we will also have an interactive part of the symposium during which we will need your active participation in a small experiment.

We hope that it will be a memorable and stress-free symposium.

Thursday

February 7

10.30 – 11.00     Welcome + Coffee/Tea

11.00 – 12.00     Vanessa van Ast – Preliminary title: Stress, memory, and cortisol in the human brain

12.00 – 12.30     Phd presentation – Speaker to be announced

12.30 – 13.30     Lunch

13.30 – 14.30     Guillén Fernandez – Preliminary title: Stress and memory in humans (neuroimaging perspective)

14.30 – 15.30     Benno Roozendaal – Preliminary title: Stress and memory in rodents

15:30 – 15:40     Short break

15:40 – 16:10     Phd presentation – Speaker to be announced

16.10 – 16.45    Practical assignment

16:45 – 17:15     Phd presentation – Speaker to be announced

17.15 – 18.00     EPP run (bring your running shoes) or free time

17.15 – 19.00     Drinks

18.00 – 19.00    Dinner

20.30 – late        EPP PUB quiz

Friday

February 8

09.00 – 10.00    Bernet Elzinga – Traumatic stress and memory in humans

10.00 – 11.00    Practical assignment – ‘From bench to bedside’: translation of animal and human experimental work to clinical interventions

11.00 – 11.15     Short break – Coffee & Tea

11.15 – 12.30    Practical assignment

12.30 – 13.30     Lunch

13.30 – 14.00    Phd presentation – Speaker to be announced

14.00 – 15.00     Eamon McCrory – Preliminary title: Developmental risk and resilience: Latent markers of vulnerability following traumatic stress.