THE ROLE OF THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM IN STRESS RESPONSE AND RESILIENCE


June 08-13, 2025
Erice, Sicily, ITALY


Workshop Organizers

Conference goals

Andrea Sgoifo (Università di Parma)
Cristina Ottaviani (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Nicola Montano (Università di Milano)

Speakers & Topics

Roee Admon

Trauma under psychedelics: Clinical, behavioral, physiological and neural account

Karl-Jurgen Baer

Central and autonomic correlates of patients suffering from stress related fatigue during a biofeedback intervention

Doug Bremner

Effects of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Autonomic Function in Stress and Opioid Withdrawal

Giovanni Calcagnini

Non-invasive assessment of the sympatho-vagal balance: beyond heart rate variability and head-up tilt test

Luca Carnevali

The importance of sex for the autonomic determinants of stress resilience

Pascal Carrive

The defense cascade and its cardiovascular component

Ivan De Araujo

Central and parasympathetic control of peripheral immunity

Sarah Garfinkel

Dimensions of interoception and their implications for psychopathy

James P. Herman

The integrative biology of stress

Nicola Montano

Transauricolar Vagal Nerve Stimulation in functional and chronic diseases: does one size fit all?

John Osborn

Renal interoception in health and disease states

Cristina Ottaviani

Targeting the Autonomic Nervous System with Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interventions: A Precision Psychiatry Approach

Caroline Sevoz-Couche

The effect of the vagus nerve stimulation in lung inflammation in a model of allergic asthma

Andrea Sgoifo

Introduction - Stress and the autonomic nervous system: the parasympathetic chance for resilience

Julian Thayer

Psychophysiological Responses to Unfair Treatment

Viola Vaccarino

Stress response physiology and coronary heart disease: moving from the lab to real life

Susan Wood

Neuroimmune regulation of stress-induced behavioral and autonomic hypervigilance