2013 – 13th CRNI COURSE | Bergamo (Italy) | 10- 13 April
The immune system meets the mind: psychobiology and psychoneuroimmunology
I Day
- Opening of the Course (G. Como. – G. Martino)
Basic aspects
- Cellular Stress (E. Van Anken)
- Stress hormones and immunity (M. Meroni)
- The circadian clock machinery and the consequences of its malfunctioning (R. Costa)
- Stress and inflammation (T. Pace)
II Day
Mind-immunity interaction
- Pavlovian conditioning of the immune system (G. Pancheco-Lopez)
- Stress and neurogenesis (P. Zunszain)
- Adrenergic and dapominergic pathways and lymphocytes (M. Cosentino)
- Stress an immunity (M. Fleshner)
- Clinical cases
III Day
Mind and immune-mediated diseases
- Fibromyalgia (L.M. Bazzichi)
- Multiple Sclerosis (V. Martinelli)
- Role-playing physician/ patient. Physician/patient relationship (A. Solari)
- Sleeping sickness and circadian rhythms: how neuroimmune signaling can affect our clocks (M. Bentivoglio)
IV Day
Mind-drugs interaction
- Drugs and gender in neurology (S. Montilla)
- Inflammation, depression and response to therapy (R. Dantzer)
- Placebo/nocebo effect (F. Benedetti)
- Neuroinflammation and anxiety (D. Centonze)