Bipolar Disorder & Depression

Dr. Juruena, is now Head of the Stress and Affective Disorders (SAD) Programme at University of Sao Paulo and Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, Kings College London, completed his PhD at this center and a postdoc position at the University of Sao Paulo. He is He is also a specialist in adult psychiatry in the UK according to the Specialist Training Authority (STA) of the Medical Royal Colleges and General Medical Council (GMC). He has published over 100 original research articles, reviews and book chapters, and edited five books. Most of his studies are related to the neurobiology, diagnosis and treatment of affective disorders and their relationship to stress.

Clinical Research, Neuroscience,Mental Health, Psychology, Medicine, Research, Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology

Richard Holbert, an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, obtained his medical degree from the University of Iowa and completed his residency in Psychiatry at the University of Florida. He serves as the Co-Director for the Brain Stimulation Center, Director of TMS, and Medical Director for the University of Florida inpatient psychiatric hospital. For the past two years he has won the exemplary teacher of the year award with his teaching focused on neuromodulation. He has been actively involved in numerous clinical trials including trials involving TMS and transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).

Brain, Neuroscience and Clinical Research

Marco Callegaro is a Clinical Psychologist and received his Master’s in Neuroscience and Behavior from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. He is the Director of ICTC (Catarinense Institute of Cognitive Therapy), and IPTC (Paranaense Institute of Cognitive Therapy), an Executive Director of IWPSC (Santa Catarina WP Institute). Founder President of Associação de Terapias Cognitivas de Santa Catarina (ATC/SC) (Santa Catarina Cognitive Therapies Association). President of FBTC (Brazilian Federation of Cognitive Therapy) 2009-2011. President of the 8th Brazilian Congress of Cognitive Therapies (CBTC 2011). President in charge of APPAL (Latin America Positive Psychology Association). He is the author of the book O Novo Inconsciente: Como a Terapia Cognitiva e as Neurociências revolucionaram o modelo do processamento mental (Artmed, 2011), (The New Unconscious: How Cognitive Therapy and the Neurosciences Revolutionized the Model of Mental Processing). He received the Jabuti Literature Prize from the Brazilian Book Chamber (2012).

Clinical Psychology, Neuroscience and Public Mental health

Juarez Nunes Callegaro was born in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul. He studied medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Founder and technical lead for the first Emergency Children of Porto Alegre, for many years taught Psychotherapeutic Theories and Techniques in the course of training of psychologists at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS), supervising trainees of the course of Clinical Psychology. Among many other titles, he was President of the Medical Hypnology Association of Rio Grande do Sul and Vice President of the Association of Cybernetics and General Systems. At the First Brazilian Congress of Cybernetics and General Systems in 1972, gave a leture about cyber concepts in psychology, psychiatry and education. At the time he created a new movement, pioneer in the world, called Ortossistemic Medicine and Psychiatry. Based on the cybernetic model of research from Gordon Pask and Heinz von Foerster, a scientific revolution that led him to add to the medicine and psychiatry the cyber model, changing the concept from chemical nutrient of orthomolecular medicine to chemical-physical and informational nutrient of the evolutionary brain nutrology . Made course of orthomolecular medicine in which a teacher was Linus Pauling, from who became disciple. Psychiatrist and professor of graduate studies in brain nutrition in various univer-sities. A pioneer in brain nutrology at the Nutrition Department of the Brazilian Medical Association Professor at the postgraduate course in Biomolecular Medicine and Free Radicals in Centro Universitário São Camilo (Sao Paulo), with graduation by UNI-RIO (University of Rio de Janeiro). Professor of graduate courses in Orthomolecular Psychiatry and Brain Nutrition at Veiga de Almeida University in Rio de Janeiro. Professor at Biomolecular Medicine graduation at a course coordinated by Prof. Angelo Lucas in the Modern University in Lisbon. Teacher, on three occasions in the course of Biochemistry Applied to Medicine headed by Dr. José de Felippe Jr. in Sao Paulo, approved by the Brazilian Medi-cal Association of Biomolecular and nutrigenomics. Table president and speaker at the XXVII International Practice Congress ofOrtomolecular and Free Radicals in São Paulo in 2014, lecturing about "Nutri-genomic activity and Nutrigenetics in Emotion Disorders, Defining Metabolic Pathways and Modulation Nutrition." Lecture, in 2014, on the graduate course of the Centre for Integrative Medicine, vinculated institution to the University Fernando Pessoa, in Porto, Portugal, talk-ing about "Orthomolecular and Systemic Aspects of Mental Disorders." In February 2015 he attended the Corso di formazione in Neuro Psycho Physio Pathology Adattiva and Ottimizzazione Neuro Psycho Physical con REAC Tech-nology in Florence, Italy. Speaker at several international medical conferences, a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, member of the Longevity Healthy Group and Brazilian Medical Association Oxidology, which, "in recognition of his tireless scientific contribution to the continued growth of Orthomolecular science ", awarded him with the title of " NOTORIOUS KNOW MASTER"in honor held during the XXIX International Congress of Orthomolecular and Free Radicals Practice. In May 2015 he gave, in Brasilia, accompanied by Dr. Arnoldo Velozzo, course on aspects of orthomolecular treatment in Neuropsychiatry. In June 2015 he lectured at the International Congress of Ortho-molecular Medi-cine headed by Dr. Efrain Olszewer when he spoke about the Ortomolecular As-pects of Mental Disorders and the Ortossistêmic Interaction witn brain Neuro-physiology in Stress. In 2015 too, invited by Dr. William Shaw, he was the Scientific Director and speaker at the First International Congress on Integrative and Regenerative Med-icine, at São Paulo. Author of the book "Creative Mind, The Adventure of the Brain Well Nour-ished", Ed. Voices, 4th. Editing, and along with Dr. Helion Varzim and nutrition-ist Luciana Ayer's of the work "Brain Nutrition," Ed. Objective. For thirty years was the psychiatrist at Clinice - Advanced Medical Center - in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and equally in private practice in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.

Brain, Neuloscience, Mental Disorders, Psyciatheraphy and Medicine

Dr. Sanjoy Sanyal is Associate Dean, Clinical Neuroscience Professor, Surgeon and Informatician in Texila American University, Guyana, South America. He holds double Master's degrees from India and UK. He has published more than 50 papers in print and online journals. He is a Neuroscience editor and peer-reviewer of WebmedCentral. He has posted more than 300 Neuroscience videos online, accompanied by his running commentaries. He is currently writing a Neuroscience book for medical students. He has presented papers in more than 10 international forums. He holds a provisional patent from USPTO on a computerized program for staging 26 human cancers. (99 words) Presenting author details Full name: Dr. Sanjoy Sanyal Contact number: +592 692 6147 Twitter account: zoomclimber (https://twitter.com/#!/zoomclimber) LinkedIn account: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sanyalsanjoy8 Session name / number: Track 2-5 (Understanding Bipolar – Neurology of Bipolar Disorders) Category: Oral presentation

Clinical Neuroscience, Neurosurgery and Study of Human Brain

Dr. Lars H Thorell is an Associate Professor in Experimental Psychiatry, particularly Psychophysiology, in Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden He and his wife are the founders of, and Lars is the DIrector of Research, at the company Emotra AB, Gothenburg, Sweden. He was the President of the World Suicidology Net 2013-2015

Neuropsychology and Psychiatry, particularly Electrodermal Hyporeactivity and Vulnerability to Suicide

Peter Deen is a molecular physiologist interested in the (patho)physiology of renal water homeostasis regulation in health and disease. He was the first to identify mutations in genes leading to congenital NDI and contributed extensively to understanding the etiology and development of improved treatment for Li-NDI. He is a leading scientist in this discipline, has published >140 papers, with several in high impact journals, has given >80 invited lectures, and has obtained >40 grants. He was the first European recipient of the prestigious Young Investigator Award of the American Physiological Society and obtained a prestigious VICI grant.

Phato-physiology of integrative and renal water homeostasis regulation and energy metabolism in health and disease

Dr. José Alberto Del Porto is a Research professors in Federal University of São Paulo. He was Graduated from the Federal University of São Paulo (1975), specialization the Federal University of São Paulo (1977), master's degree in psychobiology at the Federal University of São Paulo (1982), doctorate in psychobiology at the Federal University of São Paulo (1984) and post doctorate from the University Of Illinois At Chicago (1988).

Neurology and Psychitry

Professor - Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Dr Theun de Groot, senior Postdoc at the Dept. of Physiology, Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, completed his PhD at this center and performed his postdoctoral studies at The Jackson Laboratory, Maine, USA, for which he obtained personal grants from the Niels Stensen Foundation, European Union (Marie Curie Fellowship) and the Dutch Kidney Foundation. His long-standing aim is to understand the cause of renal disorders in lithium-using patients and ultimately prevent their development. Dr. de Groot presented at various international meetings and has authored 11 research articles, including 4 articles in the prestigious Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Physiology, Renal disorders and Genetics

Dr. Doris Hupfeld Moreno graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP) in 1982 and was Resident of the Hospital of the Institute of Psychiatry (IPQ-HC) FMUSP 1983-1985. Defended MSc in 1995 and PhD in 2004, the Department of Psychiatry of FMUSP. For more than 25 years was supervisor GRUDA residents. He is currently Medical Assistant and Researcher of Affective Diseases Group (GRUDA) of IPQ-HC-FMUSP. Participates various associations, including the Brazilian Psychiatric Association, International Society of Bipolar Disorders, the International Society of Mood Disorders, Bipolar Disorder Brazilian Association. She is a founding member of the Association of Patients, Friends and Family of Affective Disorders (ABRATA).

Psychiatry, mood disorders and Bipolar Disorders

Dr. Wael Fouad Soliman has done M.D. PhD psychiatry. He is the Head of forensic unit in El Khanka mental health hospital and also Member of National Council for mental health Egypt.Working as General Manager of El Khanka mental health hospital which is biggest mental health hospital in Egypt and the Middle East.

Psychiatrist specialized in Adult Psychiatry, Pediatric Psychiatry, Addiction and Family Counseling.

Asma Ismail is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist.She has done Master degree in clinical psychology and Psychotherapy, and Specialist in Clinical Psychology. At present, she is working as senior rehab. Specialist in a rehabilitation center from Addiction, at Erada center, Dubai government, UAE. She was also the Head of the social inclusion unit - at Dubai Community Development Authority, Dubai government, UAE.

Asma has a keen interest in Clinical Psychology.Development of psychological and social programs.Taking in charge clinical cases including depression, anxiety.Responsible for delivering training and rehabilitation programs to targeted populations.

Melba Álvarez Martínez completed a Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Research at the International College of Higher Education (2015); she studied the Master's Degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the same College. She has a Master's Degree in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents (IIPCS / APM) and a Psychology Degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is a Clinical Psychologist at the National Institute of Psychiatry; is the author of the book "Psychological Theories", has published articles in International and National Journals of Psychoanalysis and is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Magazine Letter in Psychoanalysis (LeP).

Clinical Psychology,Psycho-analytics,Psychotherapy, Psychology