08:30 - 10:00 PANEL 3
08:30 - 08:55 Topic: Novel Approaches To Treatment Resistant Depression
Speaker: Professor Chee Ng
08:55 - 09:00 Q&A
09:00 - 09:25 Topic: Positive Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Speaker: Professor Richard Summer
09:25 - 09:30 Q&A
09:30 - 09:55 Topic: Mental Health Legislations and the Dignity of Mental Patients
Speaker: Professor Nasser Loza
09:55 - 10:00 Q&A
10:00 - 10:15 TEA / COFFEE BREAK
10:15 - 12:15 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
10:15 - 10:30 Title 1: Negative Affect and Craving in Depressed vs. Non-Depressed Smokers after Brief Nicotine Abstinence
Speaker: Dr Nael Kilzieh
10:30 - 10:45 Title 2: Progressive brain atrophy and cortical thinning in schizophrenia after commencing clozapine treatment
Speaker:
Dr. Mohamed Ali Siddig Ahmed
10:45 - 11:00 Title 3: Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and its Components in Psychiatric Patients with Different Psychiatric Diagnoses in Saudi Arabia
Speaker:
Dr. Fahad D. Alosaimi
11:00 - 11:15 Title 4: A review of suicidal behaviour in Qatar
Speaker:
Dr. Suhaila Ghuloum
11:15 - 11:30 Title 5: Service Users’ Experience of Mental Illness in the Gulf Cooperation Council: A Systematic Scoping Review
Speaker:
Dr. Jason Hickey
11:30 - 11:45 Title 6: Validation and Cultural Adaptation of the Arabic Versions of MMSE and Mini COG Test, Qatar
Speaker:
Dr. Mohammad Albanna
11:45 - 12:00 Title 7: Burden of care among relatives of people with dementia attending tertiary care in Oman
Speaker:
Dr. Munther Almuqbali
12:00 - 12:15 Discussion
12:15 - 13:45
POSTER SESSION (10-15 posters)
LUNCH & PRAYER BREAK
13:45 - 14:45 PANEL DISCUSSION
Professor Sir Robin Murray, Professor Nick Craddock & Professor Jeffery Wilkins
14:45 - 15:00 TEA / COFFEE BREAK
15:00 - 16:00
PANEL 3
15:00 - 15:25 Topic: Inflammation in Schizophrenia
Speaker: Professor Iris Sommer
15:25 - 15:30 Q&A
15:30 - 15:55 Topic: Emotional Blunting in Clinical Practice
Speaker: Professor David Castle
15:55 - 16:00 Q&A
16:00 - 16:25 Topic: Why do people hallucinate?
Speaker: Professor Peter Woodruff
16:25 - 16:30 Q&A
16:30 - 16:45 CLOSING REMARKS