2022 PROGRAM
Program in progress
| Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Program-at-glance | |||
| Program Booklet | |||
| 09:00-10:00 Hall A |
OPENING CEREMONY |
| 10:00-11:40 Hall A |
MAIN THEME Chairpersons: V. Demarin & O. Sinanović |
| Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): How the brain is affected by arts | |
| Radwa Khalil (Bremen, Germany): Creative Therapy in Health and Disease: Inner Vision | |
| Osman Sinanović (Tuzla, BiH): Restless Legs Syndrome: Disorder between Neurology and Psychiatry. | |
| Zdravko Lacković (Zagreb, Croatia): Botulinum toxin and depression: clinical and preclinical evidence | |
| Ervina Bilić (Zagreb, Croatia): Non-motor signs of myasthenia gravis | |
| 11:40-12:00 | Coffee Break |
| 12:00-13:00 Hall A |
GRAZ STROKE SYMPOSIUM: DIAGNOSIS, CLINICAL MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT OF INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE Chairpersons: K. Niederkorn & T. Gattringer |
| Thomas Gattringer (Graz, Austria): Neuroimaging of intracranial hemorrhage | |
| Kurt Niederkorn (Graz, Austria): Clinical management of intracranial hemorrhage | |
| Hannes Deutschmann (Graz, Austria): Neurointerventional treatment of macrovascular causes of intracranial hemorrhage | |
| 12:00-13:00 Hall B |
“LETS TALK ABOUT OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY" SYMPOSIUM Chairperson: N. Mimica |
| Ninoslav Mimica (Zagreb, Croatia): The role and place of old age psychiatry today | |
| Petrana Brečić (Zagreb, Croatia): Affective disorders and suicidality in the elderly | |
| Marija Kušan Jukić (Zagreb, Croatia): Delirium and dementia | |
| Zrnka Kovačić Petrović (Zagreb, Croatia): Addictions in the elderly | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 Hall A |
NEURODEGENERATIVE SYMPOSIUM Chairpersons: V. Vuletic & M. Cuturic |
| Miroslav Cuturic (Columbia, USA): Hunitngton's Disease: Clinical Research and the Road Ahead | |
| Gabriela Novotni (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Inflammaging and the Brain | |
| Maja Relja (Zagreb, Croatia): Could we improve dystonia management in Europe? | |
| Vladimira Vuletić (Rijeka, Croatia): Invasive methods in Movement disorders | |
| 14:00-17:00 Hall B |
PULA PSYCHOPATHOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL 2023- FOCUS ON SCHIZOPHRENIA Chairpersons: Karl Bechter, Dominique Endres, Martin Brüne |
| Dominique Endres (Freiburg, Germany): Autoimmune Psychosis as a new differential diagnosis of Schizophrenia Spectrum | |
| Norbert Müller (Munich, Germany): Neuroinflammation in Schizophrenia-actual status of knowledge | |
| Paolo Enrico (Milan, Italy): Neural and immunological similarities/differences - schizophrenia vs. bipolar disorder | |
| Margherita Bechi (Milan, Italy): Empathy for psychological and physical pain in borderline personality disorder | |
| Giulia Agostoni (Milan, Italy): Looking into the brain through the language window | |
| Monika Zdravkovic (Leiden, Netherlands): Linking adverse childhood experiences to borderline personality features | |
| Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany): Insights from behavioral ecology regarding somatic comorbidity in borderline personality disorder | |
| 15:30-16:30 Hall A |
PULA MS SYMPOSIUM Chairpersons: V. Bašić Kes & U. Rot |
| Jörg Kraus (Austria): Overview of modern and upcoming MS treatment | |
| Vanja Bašić Kes (Zagreb, Croatia): MS and pregnancy | |
| Uroš Rot (Ljubljana, Slovenia): TNF alpha inhibitors and demyelinating/inflammatory diseases of the nervous system | |
| 16:30-17:00 Hall A |
NOVARTIS Satellite Symposium Vladimira Vuletić (Rijeka, Croatia): Innovation in MS together |
| 17:00-17:15 Hall A |
NOVARTIS Satellite Symposium Sanja Tomasović (Zagreb, Croatia): Innovation in Migraine together |
| 17:30-19:00 |
POSTER SESSION Chairpersons: K. Bechter, I. Šain, K. Niederkorn, H. Budinčević |
Saturday, 20.5.2023.
| 09:00-11:00 Hall A |
MAIN THEME Chairpersons: K. Bechter & M. Brüne |
| Oxana Kosenko (Ulm, Germany): Gerd Huber (1921-2012): Pioneer of Schizophrenia Research | |
| Karl Bechter (Günzburg, Germany): What mean the frequent CSF pathologies in affective and schizophrenic spectrum disorders? | |
| Paolo Enrico (Milan, Italy): Stratification of first-episode psychotic patients based on immuno-imaging markers | |
| Norbert Müller (Munich, Germany): Current State in Inflammation research and Anti-inflammatory Treatment in Major Depression | |
| Francesco Benedetti (Milan, Italy): Circulating immune cell composition and activation status associate with brain white matter microstructure in Mood Disorders | |
| Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany): Gut-brain-interaction in psychiatric disorders | |
| Milan Latas (Belgrade, Serbia): Benzodiazepines in 21th century - option or a big mistake | |
| 11.00-12.00 Hall A |
MIGRAINE SYMPOSIUM Chairpersons: B. Zvan & M. Zaletel |
| Marjan Zaletel (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Can Calcitonine gene related peptide be causally related to migraine aura? | |
| Bojana Žvan (Ljubljana): What is the right choice for the treatment of episodic and chronic migraine in people at cardiovascular risk? | |
| Mariana Ciobanu (Nashville, USA): Management of refractory migraine in adolescents and young adults- challenges and rewards | |
| Hrvoje Budinčević (Zagreb, Croatia): The potential role of Anti-CGRP Inhibitors in treatment of post-traumatic headache | |
| 11.00-12:30 Hall B |
SPORT PSYCHIATRY SYMPOSIUM Chairpersons: D. Marčinko, V.Z. Markser, T. Franić |
| Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany): Cardiovascular risk factors in young people with borderline personality disorder: why there is a need for more sports, not less | |
| Tomislav Franić (Split, Croatia): How to assess mental health in athletes – the role and problems of assessment and screening tools | |
| Stipe Drmić (Zagreb, Croatia): Mental benefit of sports – sports therapy in mental illness | |
| Darko Marčinko (Zagreb, Croatia): Healthy and pathological narcissism in football players | |
| 12.00-12.30 Hall A |
ACADEMIC LECTURE Leontino Battistin (Padua, Italy): Reflections of a clinician on the actual trends in clinical neurosciences |
| 12:30-13:00 Hall A |
MOLEAC Satellite Symposium Anita Arsovska (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Neuroaid: The latest clinical data in stroke, TBI and AD? |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-15.30 Hall A |
EPILEPSY SYMPOSIUM Chairperson: S. Bašić |
| Zrinka Čolak Romić (Zagreb, Croatia): Management of epilepsy in the elderly | |
| Iris Zavoreo (Zagreb, Croatia): Neuroimmunological aspects of the status epilepticus - treatment perspectives | |
| Željka Petelin Gadže (Zagreb, Croatia): Epilepsy and psychosis - treatment challenges | |
| Ana Sruk (Zagreb, Croatia): Sleep and epilepsy are correlated in both directions. | |
| 14.00-15.30 Hall B |
SYMPOSIUM - PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ETHICS: CURRENT VIEWS, APPROACHES, AND CHALLENGES Chairperson: M. Ćurković |
| Marko Ćurković - (Bio)ethics and professional medical ethics - a very short introduction | |
| Ana Borovečki, Ivan Pavao Gradiški: Duties of physicians towards oneself | |
| Marko Ćurković, Diana Špoljar Ethics at the end-of-life | |
| Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička, Aleksandar Maršavelski: Medical professionalism – legal framework | |
| Kristijan Sedak, Marko Marelić, Tea Vukušić Rukavina: E-professionalism - professional medical ethics in emerging digital landscapes | |
| 15:30-15:45 Hall A |
MEDIS Satellite Symposium Ana Sruk (Zagreb, Croatia): Brivaracetam: How to Get the Most Out of It in Everyday Clinical Practice. |
| 15:45-17:30 Hall A |
CEESS STROKE SYMPOSIUM Chairpersons: A. Arsovska & M. Mijajlović |
| Milija Mijajlović (Belgrade, Serbia): Cerebrovascular disorders associated with COVID-19 infection | |
| Anita Arsovska (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Rare Causes of Stroke | |
| Frederic-Ivan Silconi (Pula, Croatia): Posterior circulation stroke | |
| Jan Kobal (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Significant lowering of fatal outcomes due to Cerebral venous thrombosis in Slovenia | |
| Vesna Đermanović Dobrota (Zagreb, Croatia): Metabolic syndrome and cognitive impairment | |
| Sandra Morovic (Zagreb, Croatia): The role of HISPA in cardiovascular prevention. | |
| 15:30-17:00 Hall B |
SELECTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS SYMPOSIUM Chairperson: I. Šain |
| Kenan Galijašević (Zenica, BIH): The influence of daily life activities on the mental health of students | |
| Jure Koprivšek (Maribor, Slovenia): Do changes in learning and training of staff communication skills affect the incidence of aggressive behavior associated with certain mental disorders in hospital intensive psychiatric settings | |
| Lea Murn (Zagreb, Croatia): Will Artificial Intelligence Treat Mental Disorders efficiently as Professionals? | |
| Igor Mosic (Rijeka, Croatia): “Thukdam” - introduction to the post-mortem altered state of the mind | |
| 17:00-18:30 Hall B |
FREE TOPICS SYMPOSIUM Chairpersons: S. Butković Soldo & D. Vidović |
| Domagoj Vidovic (Zagreb, Croatia): Psychoneuroimmunology of sleep deprivation | |
| Silva Butković Soldo (Osijek, Croatia): Neurorehabilitation in MS | |
| Valentino Rački (Rijeka, Croatia): Obtaining a Genetic Diagnosis of Dystonia - A Single Tertiary Centre Experience | |
| Eliša Papić (Rijeka, Croatia): Functional disorders in Parkinson's disease patients with deep brain stimulation – a case series | |
| 17:30-18:30 Hall A |
WORKSHOP – MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO ACUTE STROKE Chairpersons: D. Janko Labinac & H. Budinčević Dolores Janko Labinac (Pula, Croatia): Headache in Emergency Room Hrvoje Budinčević (Zagreb, Croatia): How to accelerate the route to mechanical thrombectomy? |
| 18:30-19:30 Hall A |
BEST POSTERS AWARDS PRESENTATIONS Chairpersons: V. Demarin & F. Benedetti |
Sunday, 21.5.2023 .

We look forward to welcoming you to Pula in-person event! The Administrative Secretariat is pleased to assist you with further details.
Opći uvjeti poslovanja