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Please join us on 11 May 2022 to celebrate the innovative and exciting research taking place at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's.

This year, the IoPPN Research Festival will be covering the theme ‘Translational Research: From Discovery to Impact.'

With more than 20 five-minute talks on everything from anti-inflammatories in depression to male eating disorders, this online festival will also feature keynote talks by two world-class experts in their fields:

Louise Howard, Professor in Women's Mental Health

&

Professor Peter Goadsby, Professor of Neurology

See below some of our speakers and talks at this event:

Dr Tim Powell Lithium, the elixir of youth?

Dr Valeria Parlatini The Maudsley CYPHER cohort study: understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and young people with pre-existing mental health conditions

Dr Maria Antonietta Nettis Anti-inflammatories in Depression

Dr Charlotte Russell Understanding and ameliorating age-related memory changes

Dr Phil Holland New horizons in migraine therapy

Dr Una Foye Consider Male Eating Disorders: A Creative Approach to Improving Treatment in Primary Health Care for Men and Boys with Eating Disorders

Dr Ahmad Al Khleifat The identification of the clinical stage at which treatment is most effective in ALS

Dr Ewan Carr Passive transfer of fibromyalgia from patients to mice

Elka Giemza What is the CRF?

Dr Nicolaas Puts Sensory differences in Autism

Dr Rita Sousa-Nunes Cellular quiescence uncouples the proteome from the transcriptome

Dr David Andersson Passive transfer of fibromyalgia from patients to mice

Professor Cathryn Lewis Polygenic scores in mental health: prospects and pitfalls

Dr Paolo Deluca From ELIZA to PAHOLA, electronic interventions for harmful alcohol use

Dr Sandra Vieira Multimodal normative modelling in early psychosis

Dr Peter Hawkins Neuroimaging in clinical trials

Dr Ryan Patel The impact of descending pain modulation on spinal amplification mechanisms – from the rat dorsal horn to human psychophysics

Dr Emily Hird Open research: why do it?

(...with even more speakers still to be confirmed)