The McCarrison Society - conference programme 2006

conference programme 2006

Mental illness / brain disorders
now exceed all other EU burdens of ill-health, in 2004 costing €386 billion¹

This cutting-edge joint conference brings together PSYCHOLOGY & NUTRITION to show how nutrition, hormones and genomics are powerfully affecting future generations.

Generating Healthy Brains

Nutrients, Hormones and Genomics in Development:
mental health through coordinated care of life’s beginnings.

Tuesday 17 January 2006
at the Innholders² Hall 30 College Street, Dowgate Hill, London, EC4R 2RH
(next to Cannon St Station . . directions to Hall below)
Certificate of attendance can be provided

The McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health,
The Institute of Brain Chemistry & Human Nutrition (IBCHN)² &
The International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM)

8.50	REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
Chair	Professor Michael Crawford PhD, CBiol, FIBiol, FRCPath – Director, The Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition (IBCHN), London Metropolitan University.
9.30 – 9.40 9.40 – 10.10	The coming together of our Societies. CONFERENCE PRESIDENT Dr Ludwig Janus MD – The International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM) President 1995-2005, Heidelberg. Preconception to late adolescence; key impacts on brain development & function. Simon House MA – McCarrison Society & ISPPM, scientific writer. From past to present; evolution and epigenetics. David Marsh Dip Agric - McCarrison Society, scientific writer.
10.10 – 10.50	Nutrition, the brain and mental ill health. CLEAVE LECTURE Dr Joseph Hibbeln MD – Chief of Outpatient Clinic, Lab of Membrane Biophysics and Biochemistry, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, US Public Health Service Commander.
10.50 – 11.20	COFFEE
Chair	Professor Vivette Glover PhD, Perinatal Psychobiology, Imperial College London.
11.20 – 11.50	Priorities for brain science; making a difference. Dr Richard Ashcroft PhD – Reader in Biomedical Ethics, Imperial College, London.
11.50 – 12.20	Our changing diet; deficits and disorders. David Thomas DC – nutritionist, chiropractor.
12.20 – 13.00	The significance of genomic imprinting for brain development and behaviour. Professor Barry Keverne FRS, FMedSci – Behavioural Neuroscience, King's College, Cambridge.
13.00 – 14.00	LUNCH
Chair	Dr Rupert Linder MD – gynaecology, obstetrics, psychosomatic-related nutrition and psychotherapy, Birkenfeld, Germany, ISPPM President.
14.00 – 14.30	'Brainfoods': Modulating brain structure and function. Dr JD Bell PhD, MRI Unit, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London.
14.30 – 15.00	The effects of maternal anxiety or stress during pregnancy on the fetus and the long-term development of the child. Professor Vivette Glover PhD, Perinatal Psychobiology, Imperial College London.
15.00 – 15.30	CONFERENCE PRESIDENT From tribal life to civilisation’s sedentary life; changes in nurture, birth and social life. Dr Ludwig Janus MD – ISPPM President 1995-2005, Heidelberg.
15.30 – 15.50 Chair	TEA Dr Ludwig Janus MD – ISPPM President 1995-2005, Heidelberg.
15.50 – 16.20	A psycho-soma integration perspective in psychotherapy with parents & infants. Dr Antonella Sansone – ISPPM, Psychologist, Infant Massage Teacher, Author.
16.20 – 16.30	'New Parenting’, prenatal & perinatal care, psychotherapy. Terence Dowling – Depth Psychosomatologist, Heidelberg, ISPPM. (In Terence's unfortunate absence his main points will be presented.)
16.30 – 17.00	Attention deficit disorders – drugs or nutrition? Toshiko Matsudaira – Institute of Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London.
17.00 – 17.10	BREAK of ten minutes
Chair	Kate Start, Dietician and Management Consultant.
17.10 - 17.15	Presentation by Jan Katzen-Luchenta.
17.15 - 17.30	Into the future; avoiding the cost of folly. Jack Winkler – Food Health Research, London.
17.30 – 18.30	Discussion on the implications Audience participation.
18.30 – 21.00	NETWORKING SUPPER

Websites:
International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM)
Institute of Brain Chemistry & Human Nutrition (IBCHN)
Mother-and-Child.org
Worshipful Company of Innholders

1 EU Journal of Neurology, “Cost of Disorders of the Brain in Europe” (2004, excluding cerebral palsy) vol 12, Suppl 1 pages 1-92, June 2005.

2 The Institute of Brain Chemistry & Human Nutrition is profoundly grateful to The Worshipful Company of Innholders for their most generous grant of The Innholders’ Research Fellowship of well over £100,000, contributing substantially to effective and lasting mother-child healthcare.

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