Program
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Program Booklet |
Thursday, 29.5.2025
14:00-15:00 | Registration |
15:00-16:30 Hall A |
PULA MS DAY - Panel discussion on MS management in Croatia Panelists: Dolores Janko Labinac (Pula, Croatia), Sanja Tomasović (Zagreb, Croatia), Lidija Dežmalj Grbelja (Zagreb, Croatia), Silva Soldo Butković (Osijek, Croatia) |
15:00-16:30 Hall B |
DYSPHAGIA SYMPOSIUM: Multidisciplinary Approach to the Problem of Dysphagia Chairpersons: Filip Đerke (Zagreb, Croatia) & Frane Grubišić (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Filip Đerke (Zagreb, Croatia): What is Dysphagia? The Role of a Neurologist in Diagnosis and Treatment | |
Petar Gulin (Zagreb, Croatia: The Role of Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) in Dysphagia Diagnosis | |
Agata Ladić (Zagreb, Croatia): The Role of Manometry in Diagnosing Esophageal Phase Disorders of Swallowing | |
Jelena Popić (Zagreb, Croatia): Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study (VFSS): Key Findings and Clinical Application | |
Paola Danjek (Zagreb, Croatia): Speech Therapy Maneuvers for Patients with Dysphagia | |
Frane Grubišić (Zagreb, Croatia): Physical Therapy Methods in Dysphagia Treatment | |
16:30-17:00 Hall A |
ANGELS Satellite Symposium |
17:00-18:30 Hall A |
Multiple Sclerosis Symposium Chairpersons: Uroš Rot (Ljubljana, Slovenia) & Osman Sinanović (Tuzla, BiH) |
Uroš Rot (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Advantages and pitfalls of cerebrospinal fluid free kappa light chain determination in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and other neuroinflammatory diseases | |
Aleksandra Galić (Novi Sad, Serbia): Multiple sclerosis and cerebrovascular diseases | |
Osman Sinanović (Tuzla, BiH): Non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis: similarities and differences. | |
17:00-18:30 Hall B |
Dementia Symposium - Keep Fit for Cognitive Benefit Chairpersons: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Filip Đerke (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): Be ambitious about dementia prevention | |
Filip Derke (Zagreb, Croatia): Challenges in detecting and managing mild cognitive impairment | |
Jasna, Badžak (Zagreb, Croatia): Digital Dementia in the Internet Generation | |
18:30-19:00 Hall A |
OPENING |
09:30-11:00 Hall A |
PLENARY SESSION Chairpersons: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Martin Brüne 8bochum, Germany) |
Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): Arts in maintaining brain health | |
Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany): Adaptive introgression and neuropsychiatric diseases | |
Karl Bechter (Gunzburg, Germany): Updating the Peripheral CSF outflow hypothesis - now in part proven” | |
Marina Roje Bedeković (Zagreb, Croatia): How did we get this far? - obesity challenges | |
11:00-11.30 | Novonordisk Satellite Symposium |
11:30-13:00 Hall C |
GRAZ Stroke Symposium: Management of subarachnoid hemorrhage. Chairpersons: Kurt Niederkorn (Graz, Austria) & Thomas Gattringer (Graz, Austria) |
Alexander Pichler (Graz, Austria): General treatment and complications of SAH | |
Melanie Pichlsberger (Graz, Austria): Management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage - Neurosurgery | |
Stefan Leber (Graz, Austria): Management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage - Interventional Neuroradiology | |
Thomas Gattringer (Graz, Austria): Convexal subarachnoid hemorrhage | |
11:30-13:00 Hall A |
Neuropsychiatry Symposium: Overlapping mechanisms in neurodegeneration and mental health disorders Chairpersons: Jason Cannon (West Lafayette, USA) & Ivana Munitic (Rijeka, Croatia) |
Jason Cannon (West Lafayette, USA): Intersecting monoaminergic mechanisms of PFAS induced motor and reward alterations |
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Dubravka Svob Strac (Zagreb, Croatia): Cognitive deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders: focus on monoamines and BDNF | |
Daniel Foti (West Lafayette, USA): Environmental and neurophysiological underpinnings of human mental health disorders |
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Ivana Munitic (Rijeka, Croatia): Of Mice and Men: OPTN variants in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia |
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11:30-13:00 Hall B |
2nd symposium on neurodevelopmental disorders Chairpersons: Raphael Bene (Lausanne, Switzerland) & Leonhard Schilbach (Düsseldorf, Germany) |
Raphael Béné (Lausanne, Switzerland): Executive functions in neurodevelopmental disorders
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Leonhard Schilbach (Düsseldorf, Germany): Autism seen through the lens of social neuroscience | |
Marija Bolfan (Zagreb, Croatia): Sensory challenges in Autism | |
Kosjenka Petek, Svea Kucinic & Tomislav Cvrtnjak (Zagreb, Croatia): Inside look: The autistic perspective on the importance of autism diagnosis in adulthood | |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:30 Hall A |
Psychiatry Symposium: Personality development and pathology in an evolutionary perspective Chairpersons: Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany) & Darko Marčinko (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Simone Cheli (Florence, Italy): How evolution can inform the conceptualization and treatment of personality disorders | |
Darko Marcinko (Zagreb, Croatia): Evolutionary aspects of narcissism | |
Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany): Life History Strategies and Personality | |
14:00-15:30 Hall B |
CEESS Symposium Chairpersons: Anita Arsovska (Skopje, N. Macedonia) & Hrvoje Budinčević (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Marija Đurović (Belgrade, Serbia): Psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approach to the patient fighting obesity | |
Anita Arsovska (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Specific stroke risk factors in females | |
Ivan Miškulin (Osijek, Croatia): The Burden of Stroke in Croatia - Facts and Figures | |
Antonija Vukšić (Zagreb, Croatia): Cognitive Complaints After Stroke and TIA | |
15:30-17:00 Hall A |
Neurodegenerative & Neurodevelopement Symposium Chairpersons: Milija Mijajlović (Belgrade, Serbia) & Gabriela Novotni (Skopje, N. Macedonia) |
Ivana Čolović Čalovski (Belgrade, Serbia): The gut microbiome and mental-behavioral disorders | |
Vladimira Vuletić (Rijeka, Croatia): Integration of Technology in Movement Disorder | |
Gabriela Novotni (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Decoding neurodegenerative diseases- from a clinician's perspective to precision medicine | |
Jelena Vojnic Barisic (Cork, Ireland): Risk Management Project: Monitoring the Physical Health of Older Adults Prescribed Antipsychotics and Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors | |
15:30-17:00 Hall B |
Psychiatry Symposium: Psychiatry in neurology Chairpersons: Lana Mužinić Marinić |
Igor Marinić: Mental disorders in multiple sclerosis | |
Stipe Drmić : Psyciatric disorders in people with epilepsy | |
Branka Aukst Margetić : Depression and headache | |
Branimir Margetić: Depression and Alzheimer's disease | |
15.30-16.30 Hall C |
Selected Oral Presentations |
Tarik Hasibović (Sarajevo, BiH): RECOVERY THROUGH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERVENTIONS: A CASE REPORT | |
Arianit Zajmi (Prishtina, Kosovo): Beyond SSRIs: Neurological Strategies in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders | |
Iva Vukovojac (Zagreb, Croatia): Maternal Nutrition in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or ADHD: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors | |
Marija Janev (Zagreb, Croatia): The Neuroplasticity of Movement: A Case Report | |
Andrey Badalov (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan): Current aspects of the neurophysiology of narcissism | |
17.00-17.30 | |
17.30-19:30 Hall C |
Poster Session Chairpersons: Martin Brüne, Kurt Niederkorn, Marina Roje Bedeković, Ivica Šain, Raphael Bene, Hrvoje Budinčević |
Saturday, 31.5.2025
08:30-10:00 Hall A |
PLENARY SESSION Chairpersons: Francesco Benedetti (Milan, Italy) & Milan Latas (Belgrade, Serbia) |
Milan Latas (Belgrade): Is there a connection between psychiatry and neurology in the current system of medicine? | |
Francesco Benedetti: The kynurenine pathway at the crossroad between inflammation, neurovascular integrity, hemodynamic responses, and functional outcomes in mood disorders | |
Radwa Khalil (Bremen, Germany): Achieving Harmony Among Multiple Goals Through Creative Thinking | |
Johannes Schröder (Heidelberg, Germany): Neurological soft signs in transition phases of healthy aging: A decade long follow-up study of two age cohorts | |
10:00-10:30 Hall C |
PLIVA Satellite Symposium |
10:00-10:30 Hall A |
PFIZER Satellite Symposium |
10:30-12:00 Hall A |
Headache Symposium Chairpersons: Bojana Zvan (Ljubljana, Slovenia) & Marijana Bosnar Puretić (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Marijana Bosnar Puretić (Zagreb, Croatia): Correlation between pain intensity and psychiatric symptoms in headache disorders | |
Bojana Zvan (Ljubljana, Slovenia): CGRP antagonism in migraine and Guidelines of migraine treatment | |
Marjan Zaletel (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Gender disparities in migraine and adapting therapy to patients needs. | |
Milija Mijajlović (Belgrade, Serbia): Mysterious facial pain: treatment approach to trigeminal neuralgia | |
Sonja Antić (Aarhus, Denmark) - Challenges in treatment of posttraumatic headache | |
10:30-12:00 Hall B |
PNEI (psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology) approach to kynurenine pathway metabolism dysfunction symposium Chairpersons: Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia) & Sanja Toljan (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Vida Demarin (Zagreb, Croatia): Kynurenine pathway and mitochondrial function in promoting longevity and healthspan | |
Sanja Toljan (Zagreb, Croatia): Clinical approach to dysregulated tryptophan-kynurenine pathway | |
Andrija Karačić (Zagreb, Croatia): Kynurenine pathway metabolism and the microbiota-gut-brain axis | |
Jacobo Sapienza (Milan, Italy): The Kynurenine Pathway and clozapine treatment in schizophrenia: effects on symptoms | |
10:30-12:00 Hall C |
Psychiatry Symposium: Neurocognition in neuropsychiatry Chairperson: Dalibor Karlović (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Vjekoslav Peitl (Zagreb, Croatia): Cognition in Parkinsons disease | |
Ante Silić (Zagreb, Croatia): Non-moniamine hypotheses in treatment of psychiatric disorders with cognition in mind | |
Darko Vlahovic (Zagreb, Croatia): TMS coilwise | |
12:00-12:30 Hall A |
PLIVA Satellite Symposium |
12:30-13:00 Hall A |
AbbVie Satellite Symposium |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:30 Hall C |
Psychopathology Summer School - Novel approaches to schizophrenia research and practice Chairpersons: Karl Bechter (Günzburg, Germany) & Martin Brüne (Bochum, Germany) |
Karl Bechter (Günzburg, Germany): CSF diagnostics in psychiatry - indications based on psychopathology |
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Margherita Bechi (Milan, Italy): brief vs long metacognitive training for patients with schizophrenia | |
Giulia Agostoni (Milan, Italy): A combination of cognitive remediation and physical exercise in patients with schizophrenia |
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Karl Bär ( Jena, Germany): A novel approach to structural brain morphometry in schizophrenia | |
14:00-15:30 Hall A |
Epilepsy Symposium Chairperson: Silvio Bašić (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Silvio Basic (Zagreb, Croatia): Epilepsy pharmacoresistance | |
Željka Petelin Gadže (Zagreb, Croatia): Epilepsy and cardiovascular comorbidities - new insights | |
Ana Sruk: Cognitive impairment in people with epilepsy | |
Gordana Kiteva-Trenchevska (Skopje, N. Macedonia): Prevention, prediction, and management of late onset epilepsy | |
14:00-15:30 Hall B |
HISPA & NAM Symposium HISPA - Hypertension, Infarction, and Stroke Prevention Association Symposium - Lifestyle 4 Health Chairpersons: Anna Maria Malagoni (Cotignola, Italy) & Sandra Morovic (Zagreb, Croatia) |
Sandra Morović (Zagreb, Croatia): Neuronutrition and Brain Health | |
Anna Maria Malagoni (Cotignola, Italy): High-intensity interval training and brain health: from cardiovascular benefits to neuro protection. | |
Fabrizio Veglia (Cotignola, Italy): Progression of carotid atherosclerosis and risk of cardiovascular events: addressing a controversial issue. | |
Igor Mosic (Rijeka, Croatia): Stress-relief program for healthcare professionals: NAM Emotional Hygiene and Four Foundations of Mindfulness | |
15:30-16:00 Hall A |
Novartis Satellite Symposium |
16:00-17:00 Hall C |
Best posters awards presentations Chairpersons: Vida Demarin & Francesco Benedetti |
09:00-11:00 Hall A |
INPC KURATORIUM; MIZMO & CEESS MEETING |
11:00-12:00 Hall A |
CLOSING |
Hall A= Bianca Istriana
Hall B = Belica
Hall C= Ulika
Program-at-glance

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