BCNBP National Day ‘NEUROPSYCHIATRY – Back in the Game!’

Morning session:

Whose Patients are these? – Chair: Livia De Picker 9:30 ‘CSF assessments for psychiatry’, Karl Bechter, Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, Ulm University, Bezirkskrankenhaus Günzburg.

10:10 ‘Auto-immune psychosis’, Janet Cunningham, Dep Medical Sciences &amp:amp: Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Sweden.

10:50 Coffee break.

11:15 DEBATE: Where and how should patients with psychiatric presentations of suspected somatic origin be assessed and treated?

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon session:

Neuropsychiatric interfaces- Chair: Jürgen De Fruyt

13:15 Functional neurological symptoms, converting the patient or the doctor?, Elfi Vergaelen, University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven, Belgium.

13:45 ‘Crossing boundaries: from movement to tic and obsessive-compulsive disorders’, Chris Bervoets, University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven, Belgium.

14:15 ‘Common ground between psychiatry and neurology in neurodegenerative disorders’, Jan Van den Stock, Leuven Brain Institute, Belgium.

14:45 Closing conclusions.

Accreditation has been requested

Registration fee: BCNBP members: free – Non-members: 95 euro – Trainees: 45 euro