Making sense of mental illness: biology, medicine and society

About | Recorded talks | Interviews of selected speakers

 

4 November 2011
Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics, UK

What is mental health today - psychiatry, neuroscience and society in the twenty first century

Video of the lecture

 

4 November 2011
Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Technical University, Dresden, DE

Size, burden and costs of mental disorders

Video of the lecture

 

4 November 2011
David J. Kupfer, University of Pittsburgh, USA

On the road to DSM-5: redefining mental illness

Video of the lecture

 

4 November 2011
Donna Franceschild, Making Waves Films & TV Ltd, UK

Living with bipolar disorder

Video of the lecture

 

4 November 2011
Simon Lovestone, King's College London, UK

Baptists, tauists and the new secularism in Alzheimer's disease research

Video of the lecture

 

4 November 2011
Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, DE

Schizophrenia - from maps to mechanisms to treatments

Video of the lecture

 

4 November 2011
Klaus-Peter Lesch, University of Würzburg, DE and Maastricht University, NL

Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder: more than a cultural construct?

Video of the lecture

 

4 November 2011
Geraint Rees, University College London, UK

Decoding consciousness

Video of the lecture

 

5 November 2011
Mathias Berger, University Medical Centre Freiburg, DE

Current progress in psychotherapy: the example of depression treatment

Video of the lecture

 

5 November 2011
Sidney Kennedy, University of Toronto, CA

Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression: Science Fact or Fiction!

Video of the lecture

 

5 November 2011
Sir Michael Rutter, King's College London, UK

Gene-environment interdependence

Video of the lecture

 

5 November 2011
Steven Rose, Open University, UK

Sick brains, sick minds or sick societies? - what, if anything, might be 'enhanced'?

Video of the lecture

 

5 November 2011
Wulf Rössler, Psychiatric University Hospital, Zurich, CH

Strategies to reduce mental illness stigma and discrimination

Video of the lecture

 

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