Summer School on Affective Neuroscience 2025
Summer School on Affective Neuroscience 2025

Programme

Location: 

Centro Didattico Morgagni, Università di Firenze (Morgagni Didactic Center, University of Florence) viale Morgagni n. 40, Florence - (second floor, class room numbers: 208-230-232)
 MONDAY 07/07 - Setting the stage Computational Affective Neuroscience 
09.00 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 11.15 Welcome
Behavioral dynamics of human social and emotional experiences
Dean Mobbs (CalTech, USA)
11.15 - 11.45 Coffee break
11.45 - 13.00 Neurocomputational mechanisms of mood and anxiety
Dr. Toby Wise (Kings College, London)
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.00 Workshop Problem-based learning
Liesbet Goossens (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
15.00 - 16.00 Small group workshop I
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30 Small group workshop II
19.00     Welcome dinner
Location: Ristorante pizzeria "Il Pinolo"
via Ponte alle Mosse 26 r, Florence.
  TUESDAY 08/07 - Aggression 
09.00 - 10.15 The morphological brain architecture of human aggression
Stéphane De Brito (University of Birmingham)
10.15 - 11.30 Developmental risk for psychopathy: Highlighting the challenge of conducting multi-method research into disordered affective development
Essi Viding (University College London)
11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 13.00 Small group workshop I
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Small group workshop II
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 18.00 Workshop Presentation Skills
Liesbet Goossens (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
 WEDNESDAY 09/07 - Neuromodulation 
09.00 - 10.15 Neuromodulation in depression
René Hurlemann (University of Oldenburg, Germany)                                
10.15 - 11.30 TMS for behavioral addiction
Stefano Pallanti  (Stanford University, USA)
11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 13.00 Small group workshop I
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00 Towards the  productivity plateau in  research on transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS)? A journey in progress
Ilse Van Diest (KU Leuven)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 18.00 Small group workshop II
 THURSDAY 10/07 - From bench to bedside 
09.00 - 10.15 Precision Psychiatry
Sean Hood (The University of Western Australia)                              
10.15 - 11.30 Small group workshop I
11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 13.00 Workshop 'Shaping Health policies based on neuroscience'
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30 Workshop 'Shaping Health policies based on neuroscience'
Lisa Miller (The University of Western Australia)
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 18.00 Small group workshop II
 FRIDAY 11/07 - Fade Out 
09.30 - 11.30 Plenary session
Small group presentations
Liesbet Goossens  & Koen Schruers (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)                             
11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 - 13.00

Closing session
                          Best small group election
                          Grant awards

Lunch to go