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2023 Autumn Conference – Includes Joint Day with ECNP

ECNP/ISCTM Joint Meeting Prior to 36th ECNP Congress 2023: CNS Clinical Trial Methodology
05 – 07 October, 2023   //   Barcelona, Spain

Distinguished Poster Award Recipient:

Psilocybin therapy for treatment resistant depression: Prediction of clinical outcome by natural language processing (Dougherty; Abstract)  

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6 October 2023

   
 Welcome from the ISCTM and ECNP Presidents Martien Kas
Gary Sachs
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Session 1: Novel quantitative analysis method to address placebo effects in CNS trials Chairs:
Danièle Laverdure-Dupont
Eduard Vieta
 
  Introduction: Perspectives on the placebo effect – from academia to pharma

Danièle Laverdure-Dupont
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  Psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underlying placebo responses and their clinical consequences

Fabrizio Benedetti
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  Placebo prognostic covariates: Use of unique patient characteristics to leverage the full potential of prognostic covariates and their implementation in RCTs Dominique Demolle
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  Biostatistical considerations around the use of traditional or AI-based covariates in registrational trials Anzalee Khan
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  Predicting placebo responsiveness using machine learning and explainable AI Manuel Montoya
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  Regulatory acceptability of placebo responsiveness prediction tools in registrational trials Khadija Rantell 
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Dawn Velligan
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  Panel discussion Facilitator:
Eduard Vieta
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 Session 2: Prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) for CNS disorders

Chairs:
Shaheen Lakhan
Gerard Dawson
 
  A primer on digital therapeutics Shaheen Lakhan
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  Bringing digital therapeutics to the psychiatric patient population Gerard Dawson
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  What are appropriate control conditions for prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs)? Jacqueline Lutz
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  Developing neuromodulation interventions for mental health digital therapeutics Brian Iacoviello
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  Regulating PDTs: The German experience Jonas Albert
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  Digital therapeutic regulation pathways in the USA Megan Coder
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  Prescription digital therapeutics: Optimizing third party coverage, operationalizing access Paul Jeffrey
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  European taskforce for harmonized evaluation of digital medicine devices (DMDs) Fruzsina Mezei
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  Panel discussion video  

 Poster Session

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 7 October 2023

 
Session 3: Are our clinician rated psychopathology measures fit for purpose decades later? Chairs:
Nina Schooler
Celso Arango
Stephen Marder
 
  Introduction: Setting the problem into perspective Nina Schooler
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  Schizophrenia and psychosis: What are identified deficiencies of our current psychopathology rating scales?

Celso Arango
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  Major depression: Are we asking the right questions?

Koen Demyttenaere
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  Bipolar disorder: What are identified deficiencies of our current psychopathology rating scales for exemplar diagnoses? Eduard Vieta
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  Strategies for developing new and improved consensus instruments Stephen Marder
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  Linking established clinical items to objective/passive measurements: In search of an elusive “gold standard” Vikas Mohan Sharma
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  Using large banks of items and computer adaptive testing to improve clinical outcome assessment Nina Schooler
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  Measurement resolution is the key to advancing digital phenotyping beyond “proof of concept” Alex Cohen
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  Speaker and Stakeholder panel discussion Panelist:
Silvia Zaragoza Domingo
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  Session adjourns Gary Sachs
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Concurrent Working Group Sessions

   
  Accelerating development of psychopathology measures – ISCTM/ECNP joint working group Chairs:
Nina Schooler
Celso Arango
Jenicka Engler
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  Methodological issues in study designs for clinical trials with psychedelics working group Chairs:
Amir Inamdar
Joyce Tsai
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  Orphan diseases working group Chairs:
Joan Busner
Gahan Pandina
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  *Slides not released