Abstracts Submission Deadline: February 21, 2022
5th European Conference of Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure and privilege to announce that the 5th European Conference of Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry will take place from Friday, June 3rd till Saturday, June 4th in Zagreb, Croatia.
We look forward to meeting you in Zagreb,
Professor Igor Filipčić Phd, MD

European Scientific Committee
Ana Ganho Avila
Andrea Antal
Anne Sauvaget
Antonio Oliviero
Berthold Langguth
Chris Baeken
Daniela Hubl
David Szekely
Emmanuel Poulet
Fady Rachid
Frank Padberg
Giordano D’Urso
Igor Filipčić
Jacintha O’Shea
Jerome Brunelin
Katy Brem
Lorena Chanes
Marco Hirnstein
Martijn Arns
Philip van Eindhoven
Samuel Bulteau
Sebastian Olbrich
Regional Committee
Alma Mihaljević Peles
Boran Uglešić
Dalibor Karlović
Darko Marčinko
Igor Filipcic
Jurij Bon
Petrana Brečić
Stojan Bajraktarov
Vesna Švab
Vladimir Grošić
Ivana Orgulan
Natko Gereš
Sandra Zečević Penić
Strahimir Sučić
Tomislav Gajšak
Vladimir Požgaj
Željko Milovac
5th European Conference of Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry
What to expect?

Learning
Exchange of knowledge and experiences.

Quality
Only the best lecturers.

Networking
Professional networking.
Final Programme
Programme
8:50 – 9:00
Opening Ceremony
09:00 – 10:15
Hall 1
Symposium – chairs:
Igor Filipčić & Abraham Zangen
Deep –TMS in clinical practice: new insights
Speaker 1
Abraham Zangen, Uri Alyagon, Aron Tendler, Mark George
Should lateral or Medial prefrontal stimulation be used to treat MDD?
Jerusalem, Israel
Speaker 2
Maayan Harel & Markus Heilig
Deep TMS in Alcohol Dependence: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Proof-of-Concept Trial with Brain Imaging
Linköping, Sweden
Speaker 3
Ena Ivezić & Ivana Bahun
Effects of deep and r-TMS on neurocognitive functioning in MDD patients
Zagreb, Croatia
Speaker 4
Igor Filipčić & Ivona Filipčić
Negative symptoms in SCH patients treated with Deep-TMS, H7 coil
Zagreb, Croatia
10:15 – 10:30
Q&A
10:30 – 11:15
Keynote Speaker
Albino Oliveira-Maia
rTMS for old-age depression
Lisbon, Portugal
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00
Hall 1
Symposium – chairs:
Jerome Brunelin & Virginie Moulier
Limiting and optimisable conditions in rTMS of depression and other mental diseases
Speaker 1
Abdullah Alhelali
Influence of TMS, clinical and demographic parameters on the efficacy of rTMS in depression
Regensburg, Germany
Speaker 2
Maud Rothärmel
Deep rTMS: a new option in mental diseases?
Rouen, France
Speaker 3
Chris Baeken
Brain perfusion patterns as clinical (non) predictor to aiTBS treatment in medication-resistant depression
Ghent, Belgium
Speaker 4
Virginie Moulier
Clinical, cognitive and neurophysiological effects of the combination of neurostimulation techniques in patients with mental disorders
Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
13:00 – 13:15
Q&A
13:15 – 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 – 15:45
Hall 1
Symposium – chairs:
Joan A. Camprodon & Marta Cano
Beyond clinical syndromes: understanding mechanisms of neuromodulation form a dimensional perspective
Speaker 1
Ellard Kristen
Changes in Emotion Regulation following Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and the Relationship to Treatment Response in Major Depressive Disorder
Boston,USA
Speaker 2
Barbour Tracy
Differential Effects of Rtms and Ect on the Symptom Dimensions of Reward and approach/avoidance in Major Depressive Disorder
Boston, USA
Speaker 3
Ward Benjamin
Improving Antidepressant Response Prediction Using Dimensional outcomes: Convergent Evidence from ECT and Ketamine Treatments
Los Angeles, USA
Speaker 4
Deng Zhi
Depressive Symptom Dimensions and Response Trajectories in Electroconvulsive Therapy and Magnetic Seizure Therapy
Bethesda, USA
14:30 – 15:45
Hall 2
Symposium – chairs:
Andrea Antal & Giordano D’Urso
Cerebellar non-invasive brain stimulation in psychiatric disorders
Speaker 1
Raffaele Dubbioso
TMS studies of the cerebellar-brain inhibition and neuropsychiatric disorders
Napoli, Italy
Speaker 2
Giordano D’Urso
Cerebellar tDCS in depression
Napoli, Italy
Speaker 3
Raquel Guiomar
Cerebellar tDCS in schizophrenia
Coimbra, Portugal
Speaker 4
Elena Toscano
Cerebellar tDCS in autism spectrum disorder
Napoli, Italy
15:45 – 16:00
Q&A
16:00 – 17:15
Hall 1
Symposium – chairs:
Stefanie De Smet & Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt
Modulation of brain-body interactions using non-invasive brain stimulation
Speaker 1
Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt
Combining electrical stimulation and lifestyle interventions targeting the vagus nerve to increase resilience systematic review and meta-analysis
Ghent, Belgium
Speaker 2
Maximilian Schmaußer
The Effects of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation on Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability: a systematic review and meta-analysis
London, United Kingdom
Speaker 3
Stefanie De Smet
Effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on autonomic and cognitive rigidity during perseverative cognition
Leiden, Netherland
Speaker 4
Giuseppe Salvo
Reducing disgust and moral rigidity through transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): Clinical implications for obsessive-compulsive disorder
London, United Kingdom
16:00 – 17:15
Hall 2
Free communication – chairs:
Jacinta O Shea & Fady Rachid
Speaker 1
Sara De Witte
Double-dosed non-invasive brain stimulation: is more better?
Ghent, Belgium
Speaker 2
Youssef Hussein
Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Negatively Responded to Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Randomized Controlled Trial
Egypt
Speaker 3
Raffaele Dubbioso
Cerebellar-thalamo-cortical circuitry in Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder: a neurophysiological study protocol
Napoli, Italy
Speaker 4
Attali David
A 20-Year Journey in Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation – Lessons Learned
Paris, France
Speaker 5
Raquel Guiomar
Combining app-based psychological intervention with home-based Transcranial Direct Stimulation for the treatment of depressive and anxiety symptoms: A Case Series
Coimbra, Portugal
Speaker 6
Radytė Emilė
Modelling Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation of Deep Brain Structures for Psychiatric Applications
Oxford, UK
17:15 – 17:30
Q&A
17:30 – 18:30
Hall 1
Poster session
Chairs: Andrea Antal & Martijn Arns & Jacinta O Shea
19:00 – 22:00
Dinner
08:30 – 09:45
Hall 1
Symposium – chairs:
Hanneke Van Dijk & Giordano D’Urso
Innovative applications of brain stimulation in psychiatry: new technology to increase treatment efficacy
Speaker 1
Tommaso Bocci, Alberto Priori
Adaptive closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry
Milano, Italy
Speaker 2
Lais B. Razza
Combining iTBS and tDCS over the prefrontal cortex: results from a phase-I trial
Sao Paulo, Brasil
Speaker 3
Leo Chen
Innovative applications of brain stimulation in psychiatry
Australia
Speaker 4
Samuel Bulteau
tDCS+Virtual Reality in fear of heights and rumination
Nantes, France
09:45 – 10:00
Q&A
08:30 – 09:45
Hall 2
Symposium – chairs:
Joan A. Camprodon & Tracy Barbour
Understanding circuit mechanisms of Electroconvulsive Therapy using multimodal MRI
Speaker 1
Benjamin Wade
Differential Changes in Resting-state Functional Connectivity Imparted by Rapidly-acting Antidepressant Treatments
Los Angeles, USA
Speaker 2
Carles Soriano-Mas
Structural covariance between the hippocampus and the insula is associated to ECT response in patients with depression
Barcelona, Spain
Speaker 3
Marta Cano
Mechanisms of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on anti-suicidal response: a GEMRIC mega-analysis
Barcelona, Spain
Speaker 4
Joan A. Camprodon
Suicide circuit therapeutics: leveraging the efficacy of ECT and the focality of TMS
Boston, USA
09:45 – 10:00
Q&A
10:00 – 10:45
Keynote Speaker
Nolan Williams
Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy
Stanford, USA
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30
Symposium – chairs:
Chris Baeken & Tik Martin
Potential of electric field simulations in clinical practice
Speaker 1
Puonti Oula
Introduction to electric field modeling: how, why, and what is still missing?
Copenhagen, Denmark
Speaker 2
Deborah Klooster
Do electric field simulations have added value for determinating TMS coil positions at the scalp for optimal targeting?
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Speaker 3
Miles Wischnewski
Meta-analytic electric field modeling
Minneapolis, USA
Speaker 4
Vasileiadi Maria
High-precision language mapping through multimodal fMRI, TMS and E-field modelling
Vienna, Austria
12:30 – 12:45
Q&A
12:45 – 14:00
Symposium – chairs:
Martijn Arns & Jonathan Downar
Precision-TMS in Depression: fMRI, EEG and cardiac biomarkers
Speaker 1
Shan Siddiqi
Circuit-targeted TMS across symptoms and disorders
Boston, USA
Speaker 2
Helena Voetterl
Facilitating rTMS treatment stratification with Brainmarker 1: A transdiagnostic EEG stratification biomarker
Maastricht, Netherlands
Speaker 3
Eva Dijkstra
rTMS induced Brain-Heart Coupling: Implications for site selection and frontal thresholding?
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Speaker 4
Jonathan Downar
Improving clinical outcomes and treatment accessibility for rTMS in depression
Toronto, Canada
14:00 – 14:15
Q&A
14:15 – 15:15
Lunch break/Poster session
15:15 – 16:00
Keynote Speaker
Andrea Antal
Transcranial electric stimulation in the the clinical practice – what works and why?
Gottingen, Germany
16:00 – 17:15
Hall 1
Symposium – chairs:
Windischberger Christian & Deborah Klooster
New tools to monitor and optimize TMS target engagement
Speaker 1
Tik Martin
Interslice iTBS/fMRI: Continuous imaging of therapeutic transcranial brain stimulation
Stanford, USA
Speaker 2
Janssens Shanice
Simultaneous TMS-EEG-fMRI to study the propagation of TMS throughout the brain
Maastricht, Netherlands
Speaker 3
Van Dijk Hanneke
Transfer (Deep) Learning based on the raw EEG; Classifying subtypes remitting to various brain-stimulation treatments in MDD
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Speaker 4
Vink Jord
Elucidating propagation patterns of rTMS treatment in depression
Utrecht, Netherlands
17:15 – 17:30
Q&A
16:00 – 17:15
Hall 2
Free communication – chairs:
Katy Brem & Martijn Arns
Speaker 1
Lueckel Maximilian
Functional connectivity- and E-field-optimized TMS targeting: A pilot TMS-fMRI validation at the single-subject level
Mainz, Germany
Speaker 2
Maria Vasileiadi
Emotion processing task as a new strategy for locating individualized TMS targets
Vienna, Austria
Speaker 3
Marco Hirnstein
No Evidence for Changes in Prefrontal and Temporo-Parietal Areas by tDCS Treatment of Auditory Hallucinations
Bergen, Norway
Speaker 4
Christophe Daudet
Accelerated iTBS rTMS protocol in a clinical routine setting: one year experience
Anglet, France
Speaker 5
Marine Mondino
A case series exploring the effects of high-frequency transcranial random noise stimulation in patients with schizophrenia
Lyon, France
Speaker 6
Yuki Mizutani-Tiebelab
Concurrent TMS-fMRI – systematic review of methodological differences and sources of bias
Munich, Germany
17:15 – 17:30
Q&A
17:30 – 18:00
Closing remarks
5th European Conference of Brain Stimulation in Psychiatry
Regional Conference
Thursday, June 2
09:00 – 09:15
Opening Ceremony
Grad Zagreb
Ministarstvo zdravstva RH – prof.dr.sc. Silvio Bašić
HAZU – akademik Ivica Kostović, Professor Emeritus
Hrvatska liječnička komora – dr.sc. Krešimir Luetić
09:15 – 10:00
Symposium – chairs:
Chris Baeken & Igor Filipčić & Boran Uglešić & Vladimir Grošić
Igor Filipčić, Natko Gereš, Sandra Zečević Penić, Tomislav Gajšak, Željko Milovac
TMS in Clinical Practice at University Psychiatric Hospital Sveti Ivan
Zagreb, Croatia
10:00 – 10:45
Chris Baeken
Keynote Speaker
TMS in clinical practice
Ghent, Belgium
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break/poster session
11:15 – 11:45
Maja Rogić-Vidaković, Zoran Đogaš
Assessment of the corticobulbar excitability in laryngeal dystonia/spasmodic dysphonia – Preliminary results and review of current knowledge on neuromodulation treatments
Split, Croatia
11:45 – 12:15
Porin Makarić, Marko Ćurković, Petrana Brečić
Placebo and (un)specific effects of TMS
Zagreb, Croatia
12:15 – 12:45
Stojan Bajraktarov, Kneginja Richter
Personalized rTMS based on Prediction factors
Republic of North Macedonia, Germany
12:45 – 13:15
Jurij Bon
Challenges and opportunities with treatment of medication-resistant depression in Slovenia
Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia
13:15 – 13:45
Marina Šagud, Martina Rojnić Kuzman
ECT in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: current practice and future perspectives
Zagreb, Croatia
13:45 – 14:00
Ivona Šimunović Filipčić, Darko Marčinko
Treatment of depression and physical comorbidities with TMS
Zagreb, Croatia
14:00 – 14:45
Lunch break
14:45 – 15:15
Vjekoslav Peitl, Ante Silić, Dalibor Karlović
Clinical practice at Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
15:15 – 15:45
Anamarija Petek Erić, Ivan Požgain, Zoran Čavajda, Ivana Pavličević Tomas
Personalized rTMS based on Prediction factors
Osijek, Croatia
16:00 – 18:00
Natko Gereš, Strahimir Sučić, Tomislav Gajšak, Željko Milovac, Igor Filipčić
Workshop/practical work in TMS laboratory at University Psychiatric Hospital Sveti Ivan
Zagreb, Croatia
18:00 – 19:00
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Registration
Registration fees | EARLY BIRD, Before 15.4.2022. | REGULAR |
Trainees, Students | 200 EUR (1.500,00 kn) | 300 EUR (2.250,00 kn) |
Low and mid income countries | 200 EUR (1.500,00 kn) | 300 EUR (2.250,00 kn) |
ALL Others | 300 EUR (2.250,00 kn) | 400 EUR (3.000,00 kn) |
VAT (25%) is included |
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Accommodation
Accommodation at special prices for the participants is organized in the hotels in Zagreb. We kindly ask interested participants to book their hotel rooms not later than May 1, 2022. Hotel rooms are available on a first-come, first-serve basis only.
For accommodation booking please contact Congress Agency Vivid original d.o.o. via link on the right !!
HOTEL ANTUNOVIĆ ****
The Antunović 4 star Hotel in Zagreb features is modernly designed and on the great location– a guarantee for a relaxing stay, whether you are staying at the hotel for business or pleasure.
Price in a single room: 775,00kn/ 105 EUR
Price is per person per day.
Price includes:
A rich breakfast buffet and free Wi-Fi Internet, use of “Aspa” wellness center on the 8th floor of the hotel (swimming pool, jacuzzi, 2 panoramic saunas, steam bath, solarium with water bed, relax zone and trim cabinet), carrying luggage, as well as VAT and tourist tax of HRK 12.00 per person per night.
HOTEL DUBROVNIK ****
Hotel Dubrovnik, built in 1929 in the very center of Zagreb, is a mixture of traditional values and modern comfort. Located on Ban Jelačić Square, the main city square, the guests are offered not only superior comfort, but also the opportunity to simply step out into the heart of all Zagreb’s happenings.
Whole property is non smoking.
Price in a single room 740,00 kn/ 99 EUR
Price is per person per day.
Price includes:
A rich breakfast buffet and free Wi-Fi Internet, use of wellness center, VAT and tourist tax of HRK 12.00 per person per night.
Hotel Room Cancellation
Cancellations are to be addressed to the Congress agency Vivid original d.o.o. via
e-mail: info@vivid-original.com in writing.
The following cancellation fees will apply:
For cancellations until March 1, 2022: No Charge
For cancellations until May 1, 2022: Charge of first night
For cancellations after May 1, 2022 and No-Shows: Charge of the entire reservation period.