EPIG Meetings, Seminars & EP Presentations

21 October 2006 - 2ND ANNUAL EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHIATRY SEMINAR - Education Centre St John of God Hospital Burwood.

Program: 12.00: Registration & Lunch. “Evolution and Posttraumatic Stress: Disorders of Vigilance & Defence?” by Dr Chris Cantor, Consultant Psychiatrist, Senior Lecturer, Queensland. “The Social Brain: Imitation, Empathy & Attraction” by Dr Tom Hance, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. “Unveiling a Workable Evolutionary Classification System” by Dr Gary Galambos, Consultant Psychiatrist, Medical Director, St John of God Health Services. Dinner Presentation: “The Neuropsychiatry of Shamanism” by Dr Robert Kaplan, Forensic Psychiatrist, Medical Writer and Historian, Wollongong. Convenor & Chair: Dr Gary Galambos. Sponsors: AstraZeneca and Wyeth

22 October 2005 - INAUGURAL EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHIATRY SEMINAR: Bringing the Why back into Psychiatry - Education Centre St John of God Hospital Burwood.

Program: 12.00: Registration & Lunch. 1-2: Speaker 1 - Animal models of psychopathology (Emeritus Professor Ivor Jones). 2-3: Speaker 2 - Evolutionary models of psychosis (Dr Robert Kaplan). 3: Afternoon tea. 3.15-4: Speaker 3 - The social brain and deception detection (Dr Tom Hance). 4.15-5: Panel Question Time. 7.00pm: Dinner at Dolcissimo Restaurant, Haberfield. Speaker 4 - Why Evolutionary Psychiatry? (Dr Gary Galambos). Convenor & Chair: Dr Gary Galambos. Sponsors: AstraZeneca and Wyeth

2004-2005 - EPIG meetings - no details

2 February 2004 - EPIG meeting at Missenden Unit RPAH

Discussion of evolutionary models of delusional disorder.

13 October 2003 - EPIG meeting at Missenden Unit RPAH

Dr Hance read excerpts from The Social Brain, of which Dr Martin Brüne is editor and contributor, and the concepts were discussed amongst those present. In particular, the similarities and differences between antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder were explored, from an evolutionary perspective.

15 August 2003 - St John of God Hospital, Burwood

Dr Galambos lectured to psychiatrists on evolutionary models of mood disorders.

4 August 2003 - EPIG meeting at Missenden Unit RPAH

Dr Martin Brüne presented his research regarding evolutionary models of schizophrenia based on social brain theories. Reference was made to The Social Brain of which he is a contributor & editor.

Discussion of evolutionary psychiatry research.

7 July 2003 - EPIG meeting at Missenden Unit RPAH

Discussion of evolutionary models of bipolar disorder.

20 June 2003 - St John of God Hospital, Burwood

Dr Galambos lectured to psychiatrists on introductory principles of evolutionary models of mental disorders.

5 June 2003 - Rozelle Hospital, NSW

Dr Galambos lectured to psychiatrists & registrars on introductory principles of evolutionary models of mental disorders.

2 June 2003 - EPIG meeting at Missenden Unit RPAH

Discussion of evolutionary models of paranoid & other delusional disorders.

Mar 2003 - Pfizer seminar, Newport

Dr Galambos lectured to senior trainee psychiatrists on introductory principles of evolutionary models of mental disorders.

5 May 2003 - EPIG meeting at Missenden Unit RPAH

Discussion of evolutionary models of anxiety disorders.

7 April 2003 - EPIG meeting at Missenden Unit RPAH

Dr Hance presented models of cultural evolution.

24 March 2003 - EPIG meeting at Missenden Unit RPAH

Dr Galambos presented evolutionary models of PTSD and adaptive & maladaptive depression.

Discussion of EP Website.

24 February 2003 - EPIG meeting at RANZCP NSW Branch HQ

Discussion of the draft Charter.

Discussion of relevant reading material, articles & researchers.

Discussion of Price & Stevens evolutionary models for depression.

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