Summer Course on Fear and Anxiety

The next Summer Course on Fear and Anxiety will be held in Florence, Italy from 8 - 13 July 2012. The deadline for applications is 15 May 2012. Click on read more at the bottom of the page for a detailed programme, or download the pdf version.

Lectures and PBL sessions
In the Summer Course on Fear and Anxiety each day is dedicated to a different theme within the field of anxiety at large:

• Anxiety, fear and panic: introducing the concepts
• Panic and vital threats
• Obsessions and compulsions
• Social anxiety
• Stress and trauma

The morning sessions are dedicated to the PBL-sessions: workshops during which the students work in small groups on assignments and discussion topics related to the theme of the day. Each group will summarize their results in a poster, that is to be presented at the plenary session on Friday. The assignments contain elements of fundamental neuroscience as well as clinical applications.

Special Lectures
The course includes Special Lectures by invited speakers, in order to highlight important developments, or show interdisciplinary links and to broaden the horizon of the students beyond the regular teaching programme. The topics in the special lectures are tied in with the PBL sessions. 

Servier Lecture by Dan Stein (9 July):	Anxiety Disorders: an integrated approach
Board Lecture by Christian Büchel (10 July):	The good, the bad and the ugly: fear and reward learning
ECNP Lecture by Samuel Chamberlain (11 July):	A translational approach to obsessions, compulsions and grooming
ICANS Lecture by Stephan Claes (12 July):	Genetics and epigenetics of stress sensitivity

Dissertation Defences
On Wednesday afternoon our graduation candidates come to the course to defend their Master's dissertations. Each will give a short presentation on the results of their project, followed by a discussion with the professors who will ask them critical questions about their work. The day ends with the official graduation ceremony for the candidates who pass the defence.

Oral presentations
During the week the senior students will give an oral presentation on the preliminary results of their research projects. The workshop on presentation skills on Monday is intended to help the students prepare for their talk. The first year students will work on constructing an argument and structuring their talk, while the senior students will rehearse their presentations to get constructive feedback.

Screening of Protocols (SoP) Workshops
The SoP workshops are organised for the first year students of the Master only, to help them set up their research project. The students discuss their ideas with the professors, who will determine feasibility of their project and give feedback where necessary. After the SoPs all students will be assigned to a supervisor and can start writing the outline for their research project.

Programme
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