ECNP - OCRN International College of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 20th Annual Scientific Meeting
This year, our scientific meeting will be held in-person in Milan, Italy, as well as virtually over Zoom. The meeting will be free for paid-up ICOCS and OCRN Members.
ECNP - OCRN International College of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 20th Annual Scientific Meeting
20th Annual Scientific Meeting
📅 Date: September 25, 2024
📍 Luogo: Milan - Sala Napoleonica, Via Sant'Antonio 12, Italy.
🔗 Info: To register for the meeting, please email Sarah
McQuay at office@icocs.org.
Dr. Pallanti's Lecture - Treating Compulsivity with TMS: a clinician is needed
📅 Date: September 25, 2024
🕘 Time: 11:45 AM - 12:15 AM (CET)
The 2024 edition of the ECNP – OCRN – ICOCS meeting featured the participation of numerous distinguished speakers, including Dr. Stefano Pallanti, who ― as one of the world's leading experts on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ― delivered a lecture entitled ".Treating Compulsivity with TMS: a clinician is needed"
Dr. Pallanti's lecture took place on 25 September at 11:45 AM and represented a unique opportunity to delve into the latest discoveries on innovative and targeted therapies for the treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders. Among these, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) represents an innovative technique that could revolutionize the treatment of these disorders, thanks to the very high level of treatment personalization it offers.
Dr. Pallanti is a pioneer in Neuromodulation Therapies: he has been using them since 2005 for the treatment of numerous neuropsychiatric disorders, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and related disorders. During his lecture, Dr. Pallanti shared with the partecipants the results of the latest findings on the topic, bringing attention to the importance of personalized treatments for significant therapeutic outcomes!
Program
9:00 9:15 Welcome from ICOCS/OCRN Chairs
Immunological Basis and Clinical Correlates of OCD (9:15 / 11:45)
9:15 9:45 Genetics of PANS-PANDAS - Herbert Lachman
9:45 - 10:15 Immunomodulin and its Potential Role in OCD - Fulvio D'Aquisto
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session #1
10:45 - 11:15 Clinical Assessment and Management of PANS-PANDAS in OCD - Daniel Geller
11:15 - 11:45 Discussion
Defining Response, Remission, Resistance and Refractoriness in OCD (11:45 / 12:15)
11:45 - 12:15 Treating Compulsivity with TMS: a clinician is needed - Stefano Pallanti
12:15 - 12:45 Delphi Methods and Questions Proposal - Beatrice Benatti, Matteo Vismara, e Nicolaja Girone
12:45 - 2:15 Lunch and Poster Session #2
2:15 - 3:15 ICOCS Annual Meeting of Members
3:15 - 3:45 Short Oral Posters and Announcement of Poster Winner
3:45 - 4:00 Closing Remarks
The College hereby invites attendees to submit abstracts for posters to be presented at the 20th Annual Scientific Meeting that will be held in Milan, Italy, as well as virtually on September 25, 2024. Please note all posters at this meeting will be presented virtually as powerpoint slides. Please ensure your submitted poster is sized to fit on a powerpoint slide.
The College is also pleased to announce the Prof. H.G.M. Westenberg Travel Award, established in his memory thanks to a bequest entrusted to us by his family, for encouraging research in OCD. The award will be presented to the submitter of what is judged to be the best poster presentation at the meeting, in terms of scientific value and innovative methodology. The recipient of this award will be granted a EURO 300 stipend toward their travel to the next ICOCS annual meeting.
We will also be asking the top three poster authors to deliver a pre-recorded 5-minute oral presentation of their poster that will be played during the scientific program.
We will contact those selected to present a powerpoint poster and the three authors who have been selected to deliver a 5-minute pre-recorded short oral presentation prior to the meeting.
Deadline for submission: September 1, 2024
Total word count: max 500 words (The abstract title, authors/institutions, disclosure information, support sources and references are NOT counted toward this allotment)
Abstracts should observe the following format:
Title of paper in CAPITAL letters,
First name, middle initial and last name of author and co-authors,
Full affiliation details,
Abstracts are required to be text-only. Please no graphics (figures & tables).
Financial disclosure of each of the authors needed.
Policy and ethics needed.
The authors must declare that all experiments on human subjects and animal experiments were conducted in accordance with the relevant ethical standards and have passed the appropriate ethics boards.
Submissions should include both an abstract and poster contained within the same document.
Posters should include and will be assessed based on the following: a background section which should also include the study question/purpose, a methods section, a results section, and a discussion/conclusion section as well as a minimum of 2 references. Posters will also be judged on the quality of the writing and communication. Posters are required to be sized to fit on a powerpoint slide.
Please send your submissions to office@icocs.org by the deadline.
Download the Program
In-depth Resources
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
The different types of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) represent non-invasive and non-pharmacological therapies that use magnetic field to stimulate or inhibit specific brain areas, proving to be highly effective for the treatment of many disorders, including Resistant Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
OCD and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
Dr. Pallanti is one of the leading experts on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the world.
The Istituto di Neuroscienze integrates a variety of treatment methods that have proven successful in treating Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: Neuromodulation Therapies, Pharmacological Therapies, Psychotherapy and Natural Therapies.
