{"id":19,"date":"2018-06-13T17:02:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnieurope.eu\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2023-06-28T12:16:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T10:16:19","slug":"meeting-the-epn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pnieurope.eu\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Meeting the EPN"},"content":{"rendered":"

!NEW!<\/span> The EPN has organized its first own conference in October 2022, as well as the first Autumn school for trainees in Psychoneuroimmunology. The EPN also organizes webinar series on PNI topics to try and maintain interaction and exchange between EPN members. Please contact us<\/a> if you would like to attend these seminar.<\/span><\/p>\n

The EPN usually takes advantage of European and international conferences attended by the majority of its participants to meet once to twice a year. The EPN also aims at proposing PNI-themed symposia at these conferences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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EPN round-table at the PNIRS 2017, Galveston, Texas, USA (photo credit:\u00a0@ParianteSPILab<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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European PNI Autumn school series – next Autumn school: September 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
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The European Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Autumn School Series<\/a>, organized by the EPN and by the GEBIN<\/a>, explores innovative ideas and research avenues in a multidisciplinary field that includes neuroscience, immunology, and mental health\/stress research from basic to clinical science. Complex interdisciplinary interactions emerge as an important melting pot for the development of new integrative approaches addressing modern civilization health challenges. The Conference Venue Castle Rauischholzhausen is near Giessen and Marburg, Germany<\/p>\n

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Attendees at the first European PNI Autumn school – September 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n

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EPN conferences<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
First EPN conference (hybrid) – October 2022, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n

Recent insights in Immunopsychiatry: towards treatment for immune-associated psychiatric disorders<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Golam Khandaker (University of Bristol, UK), Lilly Schwieler (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Christoph Rummel (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany), Bob Harris (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)<\/p>\n

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Methods to study immune-brain communication<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Julie Lasselin (Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden), Simon Cervenka (Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, Sweden), Jan Pieter Konsman (CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France), Peder Olofsson (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)<\/p>\n

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Disentangling the role of the immune system in chronic pain<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Camilla Svensson (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Jon Lampa (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)<\/p>\n

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Neuropsychological consequences of immune activation and potential underlying mechanisms<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Martin Lord (Uppsala University), Michael Benros (University of Copenhagen, Denmark),\u00a0 Leonie Balter (Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden), Janet Cunningham (Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University, Sweden)<\/p>\n

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Round tables<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Symposia proposed by the EPN at conferences<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
At the 41st<\/i><\/b>\u00a0European Winter Conference on Brain Research (EWCBR<\/a>) – Les Diablerets, Switzerland, March 4-11 2023<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n

Interdisciplinary model and transdiagnostic symptoms
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Chair: Mats Lekander (Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Harald Engler (University Hospital Essen, Germany), Sigrid Elsenbruch (Bochum University, Germany), Mats Lekander (Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden), Eva Kosek (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Mariya Ivanovska (Medical University-Plovdiv, Bulgaria)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fatigue on a spectrum: a common symptom domain across disorders?
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Chair: Elin Linds\u00e4ter (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Anna-Karin Norlin (Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden), Hege Randi Eriksen (University of Bergen, Norway), Henrik Borsting Jacobsen (University of Oslo, Norway), Silje Reme (University of Oslo, Norway), Hans Knoop (Amsterdam University, the Netherlands), Anna Andreasson (Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sleep, stress, and health
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Chair: John Axelsson (Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Tanja Lange (University of L\u00fcbeck, Germany), Stephanie Dimitroff (University of Konstanz, Germany), John Axelsson (Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Leonie Balter (Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Sandra Tamm (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Siri Leknes (University of Olso, Norway), Simon Kyaga (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

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A way with words in the name of neurosciences: of terms and tools used to explore the neuronal environment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: J\u00e9r\u00f4me Badaut (CNRS, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: J\u00e9r\u00f4me Badaut (CNRS, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France), Simon Cervenka (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Carole Escartin (CNRS, Paris-Saclay University, France), Lorenz Hirt (CHU Lausanne, Switzerland), Jan Pieter Konsman (CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Inflammation and sickness behavior<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Lina Hansson (Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Lina Hansson (Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden), Daniel Wilhelms (Link\u00f6ping University, Sweden), Neil Harrison (Cardiff University, UK), Kristoffer M\u00e5nsson (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Marta Zakrzewska (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the 40<\/i><\/b>th<\/i><\/b> European Winter Conference on Brain Research (EWCBR<\/a>) – Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, March 7-14 2020<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n

Interdisciplinary perspectives on stress, threat and adversity 1: From experimental tools to translation
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Chair: Sigrid Elsenbruch & Harald Engler (University Hospital Essen, Germany)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Jan Pieter Konsman (CNRS UMR 5287, University of Bordeaux, France), Harald Engler (University Hospital Essen, Germany), Sigrid Elsenbruch (University Hospital Essen, Germany), Eva Kosek (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pain mechanisms and therapies: neuronal coding, plasticity and novel regulators
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Chair: Annemieke Kavelaars (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA) & Niels Eijkelkamp (University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Liam Browne (University College London, UK), Shafaq Sikandar (University College London, UK), Annemieke Kavelaars (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA), Niels Eijkelkamp (University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands), Cobi J. Heijnen (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on stress, threat and adversity 2: Consequences, risks and treatment
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Chair: Mats Lekander (Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Katja Fall (\u00d6rebro University, Sweden), Fang Fang (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Unnur Valdimarsd\u00f3ttir (Iceland University, Iceland), Elin Linds\u00e4ter (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Henrik B\u00f8rsting Jacobsen (Oslo University Hospital, Norway), Shireen Sindi (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Immune-brain interactions in Mice and Men
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Chair: Neil Harrison (Cardiff University, UK)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Christoph Rummel (Justus-Liebig-Universit\u00e4t Gie\u00dfen, Germany), Neil Harrison (Cardiff University, UK), Simon Cervenka (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Mats Lekander\/Kristoffer M\u00e5nsson (Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Sweden), Giada De Palma (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
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Immune influences on behavior
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Chair: Anna Andreasson (Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: John Axelsson (Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Sweden), Serguei Fetissov (University of Rouen, Rouen, France), Anna Andreasson (Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, Sweden), Martin Jonsj\u00f6 (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Bianka Karshikoff (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Leonie Balter (Stockholm University, Sweden)<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the 39<\/i><\/b>th<\/i><\/b> European Winter Conference on Brain Research (EWCBR<\/a>) – Les Arcs, France, March 17-23 2019<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n
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The EPN at EWCBR 2019 (photo credit: Christoph Rummel). From left to right: Leonie Balter, Sergue\u00ef Fetissov, Tamara Lacourt, Agn\u00e8s Nadjar, Anna Andreasson, Julie Lasselin, Marieke van der Schaaf, Regien Schoemaker, Philippe de Timary, Jan-Pieter Konsman, Sophie Lay\u00e9, Christoph Rummel, Christophe Bernard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Motivational perspective of fatigue and sickness<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Julie Lasselin (Stockholm University, Stockholm)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Marieke van der Schaaf (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Julie Lasselin (Stockholm University, Stockholm), Leonie Balter (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam), Tamara Lacourt (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston), John Axelsson (Stockholm University, Stockholm), Mats Lekander (Stockholm University, Stochkolm)<\/span>
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\nTop-down regulation of the immune system<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Nicolas Rohleder (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg, Erlangen)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Rainer Straub (Universit\u00e4t Regensburg, Regensburg),\u00a0Nicolas Rohleder (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg, Erlangen),\u00a0Manfred Schedlowski (University Hospital Essen, Essen),\u00a0Asya Rolls (Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa)<\/span>
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\nPeripheral immunity in neurocognitive, mental and somatoform disorders<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Marco Cosentino (Insubria University, Varese)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Marco Cosentino (Insubria University, Varese), Franca Marino (Insubria University, Varese), Martin Jonsj\u00f6 (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)<\/span>
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\nRole of the microbiome and nutrition in eating, mood and cognitive disorders<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Christoph Rummel (Justus-Liebig-Universit\u00e4t Gie\u00dfen, Gie\u00dfen) and Sophie Lay\u00e9 (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Anna Andreasson (Stockholm University, Stockholm), Serguei Fetissov (University of Rouen, Rouen), Christoph Rummel (Justus-Liebig-Universit\u00e4t Gie\u00dfen, Gie\u00dfen), Sophie Lay\u00e9 (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux)<\/span>
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\nImmunological underpinnings of changes in nervous system structure and function <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Jan-Pieter Konsman (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux) and Mats Lekander (Stockholm University, Stockholm)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Agn\u00e8s Nadjar (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux), Regien Schoemaker (University of Groningen, Groningen), Jan-Pieter Konsman (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux), Neil Harrison (University of Sussex, Brighton), Paul Hamilton (University of Link\u00f6ping, Link\u00f6ping), Mechiel Korte (Utrecht University, Utrecht), Harald Engler (University Hospital Essen, Essen), Cobi Heijnen (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston)<\/span>
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\nBehavioral and neuro-inflammatory mechanisms contributing to pain <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Annemieke Kavelaars\u00a0(MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Henrik B\u00f8rsting Jacobsen (Oslo University Hospital, Oslo),\u00a0Sigrid Elsenbruch\u00a0(University Hospital Essen, Essen),\u00a0Eva Kosek (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm),\u00a0Annemieke Kavelaars\u00a0(MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston)<\/span>
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At the 38<\/i><\/b>th<\/i><\/b> European Winter Conference on Brain Research (EWCBR<\/a>) – Villars sur Ollon, Switzerland, January 27-February 3 2018<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n

Recent insights into the central effects of the immune system<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Julie Lasselin (Stockholm University, Stockholm)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Neil Harrison (University of Sussex, Brighton), Jan-Pieter Konsman (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux), Cobi Heijnen (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston), Annemieke Kavelaars (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston), Eva Kosek (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)<\/span>
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\nDimensional perspectives on regulation of health-related behaviors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: Mats Lekander (Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Mats Lekander (Stockholm University, Stockholm), John Axelsson (Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm), Moa Pont\u00e9n (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm), Karin Jensen (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm), Isabel Ellerbrock (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)<\/span>
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\nBiopsychosocial modulation of health outcomes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chair: John Axelsson (Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)<\/span><\/p>\n

Speakers: Julie Lasselin (Stockholm University, Stockholm), Martin Jonsj\u00f6 (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm), Jeanette Tour (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm), Kristoffer M\u00e5nsson (Stockholm University, Stockholm), Shireen Sindi (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm)<\/span><\/p>\n

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EPN webinar series<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
EPN webinar series on interoception\u00a0 – winter 2020<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n

\"\"Rationale:<\/strong> Interoception is today considered as the sense of the internal state of the body that is distinct from exteroception, the sensitivity to external stimulation, and proprioception, the sense of the position and movement of body parts. Hunger and satiety are bodily states that have long been considered to involve interoception and can now be explained in quite mechanistic detail. Pain as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience and indicating potential tissue damage is another modality for which many detailed explanatory mechanisms have been put forward. Finally, the study of feelings related to emotions and that of cognition are now also putting forward explanations involving interception. Given that inflammation reflects an altered internal state of the body and that the study of the effects of inflammation on behavior, emotion, mood and cognition is one of the main interests of our community, we propose a series of webinars focusing on interception from different points of view.<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong> In the early 20th century, Charles Sherrington coined the term \u201cinteroceptive\u201d to refer to the internal bodily surfaces, for example of the gastrointestinal tract, proposed that it is \u201cadapted to chemical agencies\u201d (Sherrington, The integrative action of the nervous system, 1906, p. 317). Bud Craig, in the early 21st century, made a plea, based on neuroanatomical observations, to expand the notion interoception to correspond to the sense of the physiological condition of the body that gives rise to feelings (Craig, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2002; 2009). This then allowed Antonio Damasio to incorporate interoception into his somatic marker hypothesis driving feelings and cognitive processes (Damasio and Carvalho, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2013). Finally, interoceptive input has been proposed to be subject to predictive processing and that errors in this processing play a role in mental disorders (Barrett and Simmons, Nat.Rev. Neurosci., 2015).<\/p>\n

Barrett, L; F. and Simmons, W. K., Interoceptive predictions in the brain, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2015 Jul; 16(7):419-29. doi: 10.1038\/nrn3950.
\nCraig, A. D., How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2002 Aug; 3(8):655-66. doi: 10.1038\/nrn894.
\nCraig, A. D., How do you feel–now? The anterior insula and human awareness, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2009 Jan; 10(1):59-70. doi: 10.1038\/nrn2555.
\nDamasio, A. and Carvalho, G. B., The nature of feelings: evolutionary and neurobiological origins, Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 2013 Feb; 14(2):143-52. doi: 10.1038\/nrn3403.
\nSherrington, C. S., The integrative action of the nervous system, 1906, New Haven, Yale University Press.<\/p>\n

Program:<\/strong>
\nThe program will start off on Dec 10, 2020 with a session attempting to give a broad overview of the role of interoception in sickness behavior after detection of bacterial fragments in animals, from their least complex forms to human beings. The second session on Jan 28, 2021will address the role of adipose molecules in signaling health and disease. The series will end with a session on Feb 11, 2021 covering interoception-related issues that may be relevant for clinical practice.<\/p>\n

Dec 10, 2020: 3-5 PM CET (UTC+1)<\/em><\/span>
\nA vague feeling inside, a putative phylogeny of interoception applied to microbial detection: Jan Pieter Konsman (CNRS Aquitaine Institute for Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, France)
\nAn interoceptive predictive coding perspective on sickness behavior: Julie Lasselin (Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stress Research Institute, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden)<\/p>\n

Jan 28, 2021: 3-5 PM CET (UTC+1)<\/em><\/span>
\nIL-6 and leptin: humoral mediators that signal from the periphery to the brain: Christoph Rummel (Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany)
\nAdiponectin: a message of health? Giamila Fantuzzi (Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)<\/p>\n

Feb 11, 2021: 3-5 PM CET (UTC+1)<\/em><\/span>
\nAnxiety and Fears in critically ill patients: Tarek Sharshar (Department of Neuro-Intensive Care Medicine, Sainte-Anne Hospital, Paris-Descartes University, Paris, France)
\nInflamed depression: Effects of immune manipulation on mood, motivation and cognition: Neil Harrison (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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