10:30-11:10 - Jim Herman (Cincinnati, USA) - The inegrative biology of stress
11:10-11:40 - Coffee Break
11:40-12:20 - Viola Vaccarino (Atlanta, USA) - Stress response physiology and coronary heart disease: moving from the lab to real life
12:20-12:40 - Angelica Carandina (Milano, Italy) - Unloading gravity, unveiling resilience: autonomic responses to bed rest as a model for spaceflight
12:40-15:00 - Lunch
Session #2 - Chair: Nicola Montano (15:00-18:30)
15:00-15:40 - Pascal Carrive (Sidney, Australia) - The defence cascade and its cardiovascular component
15:40-16:20 - Luca Carnevali (Parma, Italy) - The importance of sex for the autonomic determinants of stress resilience
16:20-16:40 - Margherita Barbetti (Parma, Italy) - Sex-specific cardiac autonomic responses to repeated taVNS in rats
16:40-17:20 - Susan Wood (Columbia, USA) - Neuroimmune regulation of stress-induced behavioral and autonomic hypervigilance
17:30-17:50 - Coffee Break
17:50-18:10 - Lauren Bylsma (Pittsburgh, USA) - Ambulatory psychophysiological associations with self-reported overwhelming sensory experiences and regulatory behaviors in daily life in autistic adults
18:10-18:30 - Frances Meeten (London, UK) - An experimental investigation of the effects of resonance frequency breathing on symptoms of anxiety
20:00 - Dinner
Tuesday 10 June 2025
Session #3 - Chair Viola Vaccarino (09:00-12:30)
09:00-09:40 - Ivan De Araujo (Tübingen, Germany) - Central and parasympathetic control of peripheral immunity
09:40-10:20 - Roee Admon (Haifa, Israel)- Trauma under psychedelics: clinical, behavioral, physiological and neural account
10:20-10:40 - Sylvain Laborde (Köln, Germany) - Resting vagally-mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) and subjective self-reported variables in athletes: a scoping review
10:40-11:10 - Coffee Break
11:10-11:50 - Julian Thayer (Irvine, USA) - Psychophysiological responses to unfair treatment
11:50-12:30 - Vaughan Macefield (Melbourne, AUS) - The effects of experimental muscle pain on muscle sympathetic nerve activity, skin sympathetic nerve activity and brain activity in human
12:30-15:00 - Lunch
Session #4 - Chair: Julian Thayer (15:00-18:30)
14:30-15:10 - Nicola Montano (Milano, Italy) - Transauricolar vagal nerve stimulation in functional and chronic diseases: does one size fit all?
15:40-16:00 - Vera Jandackova (Ostrava, CZE) - Effects of 2-week transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on cognition, affective well-being, and cardiac vagal modulation: results from randomized placebo-controlled trials
16:00-16:40 - Doug Bremner (Atlanta, USA) - Effects of vagus nerve stimulation on autonomic function in stress and opioid withdrawal
16:40-17:10 - Coffee Break
17:10-17:50 - Omer Van den Bergh (Leuven, Belgium) - The affect and symptom paradigm (ASP): a review of finding
Wednesday 11 June 2025
TRIP TO ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES
A bus will bring us to Segesta and Selinunte, two of the most beautiful archeological attractions of Sicily. Lunch in a restaurant in between the two visits.
09:00-09:40 - Sarah Garfinkel (London, UK) - Dimensions of interoception and their implications for psychopathy
09:40-10:20 - Giovanni Calcagnini (Roma, Italy) - Non-invasive assessment of sympatho-vagal balance: beyond heart rate variability and head-up tilt test
10:20-10:40 - Jolien Braet (Gent, Belgium) - The immediate effects of a resonant breathing exercise on adolescents’ stress responses
10:40-11:10 - Coffee
11:10-11:50 - Cristina Ottaviani (Roma, Italy) - Targeting the autonomic nervous system with bottom-up and top-down interventions: a precision psychiatry approach
11:50-12:10 - Beth Longley (London, UK) - The Em-Body study: exploring the link between interoception, emotion, and mental health
12:10-12:30 - Vanessa Era (Roma, Italy) - Ingestible pills reveal parasympathetic withdrawal affecting gastric activity in virtual reality induced stress
12:00-15:00 - Lunch
Session #6 (Chair: Ivan De Araujo) (14:30-15:30)
14:30-14:50 - Rania Iman Virjee (London, UK) - Methodological approaches to derive the heartbeat-evoked potential: past practices and future recommendations
14:50-15:10 - Darcianne Watanabe (USA) - Emotion suppression: a differential link between stress and cardiovascular disease risk in Japanese and Americans
15:10-15:30 - Gabriel Dias Rodrigues (Milano, Italy) - Training respiratory muscles to improve sympatho-vagal and inflammatory balance: results from a clinical trial in systemic sclerosis patients
Poster Session
15:30-17:30 - Poster exhibition and discussion
17:30-19:00 - Final remarks and take-home messages (Chairs: Nicola Montano, Cristina Ottaviani, Andrea Sgoifo)