Arrival in Erice - After dinner reception at the marsala room (San Rocco)
Sunday 20, April
Opening Session
09:00-09:45 - Welcome by the Directors of the International School of Ethology, Stefano Parmigiani (University of Parma) and Paola Palanza (University of Parma)
Plenary Lecture
9:45-10:45 - Jairo Muñoz Delgado (National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz) - Chronobiology and Motor Skills in Primates: Rhythmic Gaits throughout Life
10:45-11:15 - coffee break
Session #1: Nonverbal Behaviour in non-human Animals
11:15-12:00 - Giada Cordoni (University of Turin) - Playing with emotions: play behaviour as an indicator of positive and negative emotions in nonhuman primates
12:00-12:45 - Ivan Norscia (University of Turin) - The puzzling link between motor replication during natural interactions and socio-emotional relations in primates
12:45-15:00 - Lunch break
Session #2: Psychopathology I – Basic Mechanisms
15:00-15:45 - Pier Francesco Ferrari (University of Parma, CNRS Lyon) - Mirror neurons and nonverbal social communication
15:45-16:30 - Joseph Polimeni (University of Manitoba) - Are some psychiatric symptoms actually signals to others?
16:30-17:15 - Matteo Tonna (AUSL Parma) - The missing relationship between nonverbal display and symptoms in psychopathology
17:15-18:00 - General Discussion
Monday 21, April
Plenary Lecture
9:00-10:00 - Alfonso Troisi (University of Rome Tor Vergata) - Psychiatric Disorders between Mind and Brain – where is Behaviour?
10:00-10:30 - coffee break
Session#3: Nonverbal Behaviour in Infants and Children
10:30-11:15 - Lynne Murray (University of Reading) - Impact of adult psychiatric disorder and infant clinical conditions on the functional architecture of parent-infant interactions
11:15-12:00 - Costanza Colombi (IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, University of Michigan) - Pre-emptive intervention for prodromes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) during the first year of life
12:00-12:45 - Paul St John Smith (Royal Collage of Psychiatrics, London) - Depression: an evolutionary and ethological perspective
12:45-14:30 - Lunch break
Session #4: Short Communications
14:30-15:00 - Antonio Narzisi (IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation) - Ethological Insights into Early Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorders through Nonverbal Behavior Analysis
15:00-15:30 - Alejandra Rosales-Lagarde (Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnologías) - Automatic detection of facial expressions during the Cyberball paradigm in borderline personality disorder: A pilot study
Session #5: Nonverbal Behaviour in adult psychiatric disorders
15:30-16:15 - David Eilam (Tel Aviv University) - Movement language of psychiatric patients: Examples from obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia
16:15-17:00 - Fabian Ramseyer (University of Bern) - Movement dynamics in dyadic interaction: Assessing interpersonal coordination and relating it to interaction outcome
17:00-17:45 - Martin Brüne (Ruhr University Bochum) - Nonverbal behaviour in borderline personality disorder – why oxytocin does not pay off
17:45-18:30 - General Discussion
Tuesday 22, October - Early departure (optional: day trip to be defined)