Program Schedule

Monday 8 June 2025 - Arrivals
Monday 9 June 2025
Opening
  • 08:30-09:00 - Andrea Sgoifo: Introduction. Stress and the autonomic nervous system: the parasympathetic chance for resilience
Session #1 - Chair Cristina Ottaviani (09:00-12:10)
  • 09:00-09:40 - Jim Herman (Cincinnati, USA) - The inegrative biology of stress
  • 09:40-10:20 - Viola Vaccarino - Stress response physiology and coronary heart disease: moving from the lab to real life
  • 10:20-10:50 - Coffee
  • 10:50-11:30 - Giovanni Calcagnini - Non-invasive assessment of sympatho-vagal balance: beyond heart rate variability and head-up tilt test
  • 11:30-12:10 - Julian Thayer - Psychophysiological responses to unfair treatment
  • 12:30-14:30 - Lunch
Session #2 - Chair John Osborn (14:30-18:00)
  • 14:30-15:10 - Pascal Carrive - The defence cascade and its cardiovascular component
  • 15:10-15:30 - short talk
  • 15:30-16:10 - Luca Carnevali - The importance of sex for the autonomic determinants of stress resilience
  • 16:10-16:30 - short talk
  • 16:30-17:00 - Coffee
  • 17:00-17:40 - Susan Wood - Neuroimmune regulation of stress-induced behavioral and autonomic hypervigilance
  • 17:40-18:00 - short talk
Tuesday 10 June 2025
Session #3 - Chair Viola Vaccarino (09:00-12:30)
  • 09:00-09:40 - Ivan De Araujo - Central and parasympathetic control of peripheral immunity
  • 09:40-10:00 - short talk
  • 10:00-10:40 - Karl Jurgen Baer - Central and autonomic correlates of patients suffering from stress related fatigue during a biofeedback intervention
  • 10:40-11:00 - short talk
  • 11:00-11:30 - Coffee
  • 11:30-12:10 - Roee Admon - Trauma under psychedelics: clinical, behavioral, physiological and neural account
  • 12:10-12:30 - short talk
  • 12:30-14:30 - Lunch
Session #4 - Chair: Julian Thayer (14:30-18:00)
  • 14:30-15:10 - Nicola Montano - Transauricolar vagal nerve stimulation in functional and chronic diseases: does one size fit all?
  • 15:10-15:30 - short talk
  • 15:30-16:10 - Doug Bremner - Effects of vagus nerve stimulation on autonomic function in stress and opioid withdrawal
  • 16:10-16:30 - short talk
  • 16:30-17:00 - Coffee
  • 17:00-17:40 - Caroline Sevoz-Couche - The effect of vagus nerve stimulation in lung inflammation in a model of allergic asthma
  • 17:40-18:00 - short talk
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.
Thursday 12 June 2025
Session #5 (Chair: Caroline Sevoz-Couche) (09:00-12:30)
  • 9:00-9:40 - Sarah Garfinkel - Dimensions of interoception and their implications for psychopathy
  • 9:40-10:00 - short talk
  • 10:00-10:40 - John Osborn - Renal interoception in health and disease states
  • 10:40-11:00 - short talk
  • 11:00-11:30 - Coffee
  • 11:30-12:10 - Cristina Ottaviani - Targeting the autonomic nervous system with bottom-up and top-down interventions: a precision psychiatry approach
  • 12:10-12:30 - short talk
  • 12:30-14:30 - Lunch
Thursday 12 June 2025
Session #6 (Chair: Ivan De Araujo) (14:30-16:30)
  • 14:30-16:30 - Posters
  • 16:30-17:00 - Coffee
  • 17:00-18:00 - Final remarks, discussion and take home messages (Chair: Nicola Montano, Cristina Ottaviani, Andrea Sgoifo)
Altogether dinner 20:00