The brain and mental health: increasing awareness and reducing stigma

27 May 2016, SwissTech Convention Center, Lausanne, Switzerland

Website: thebrainforum.org

This session is devoted to recent advances in our understanding of the brain mechanisms underlying mental disorders, such as major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia with a particular emphasis on novel methods and innovations aimed to increase mental health. The aim of the panel discussion is to raise awareness of mental health stigma, which is still widespread in our society and leads to discrimination at various levels towards affected individuals.

Panellists:
Prof. Emily Holmes, Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council, University of Cambridge
Prof. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Director, Central Institute of Mental Health
Prof. Helen Mayberg, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Radiology, Emory University

Chair
Prof. Julio Licinio, Deputy Director for Translational Medicine and Mind and Brain Team Leader, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute

About The Brain Forum
Researchers, engineers, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, industrialists, investors, funding agencies and policy makers meet at The Brain Forum 2016, to advance our understanding of how the brain works and to accelerate the application of this knowledge in society and the economy.