GISS 2023
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Welcome to the official website for the Giessen International Schizophrenia Symposium!
We are excited to invite you to participate in the 2023 Giessen International Schizophrenia Symposium (GISS) to be held in Giessen, Germany on 20-22 April 2023. This year highlights include the lectures from the Nobel laureate Tom Sudhof “Synapses in neuropsychiatric disorders: NRXN1 deletions and beyond”, from Iris Sommer (Professor of Psychiatry, Groningen, Netherlands): „Nutritional Psychiatry“, from Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (CEO and Chair, Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany): Mechanisms of Risk- and resilience in schizophrenia and from the EPA president Peter Falkai about „Aerobic Exercise in Schizophrenia: Understanding and Cure“ (LMU Munich, Germany).
GISS Lecture 2023
Tom Sudhof (Stanford, USA) | Synapses in neuropsychiatric disorders: NRXN1 deletions and beyond | ![]() |
Robert Sommer Lecture 2023
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg (ZI Mannheim, Germany) | Mechanisms of Risk- and resilience in schizophrenia | ![]() |
Key Note Lectures 2023
Iris Sommer (Groningen, Netherlands) | Nutritional Psychiatry | ![]() |
Peter Falkai (LMU Munich, Germany) | Aerobic Exercise in Schizophrenia: Understanding and Cure | ![]() |
Robin Murray (London, United Kingdom) | An aetiological approach to the treatment of psychosis | ![]() |
Daniel Weinberger (Baltimore, USA) | Genomic Insights about the Prenatal Origins of Behavioral Disorders | ![]() |
David Lewis (Pittsburgh, USA) | A Molecular and Neural Circuitry Substrate for Cognitive Dysfunction in SZ | ![]() |
Opening Symposium 2023
Silvana Galderisi | |
Christoph Correll | |
Alkomiet Hasan | |
Stefan Borgwardt |
Presidential Symposium 2023
Dan Rujescu | |
Nikolaos Kotsouleris | |
Tilo Kircher | |
Branislava Curcic-Blake |
Expert Classes 2023
EEG | Christina Andreou Gregor Leicht Peter Uhlhaas |
fMRI | Todd Woodward |
Implementation of evidence-based schizophrenia care | Alkomiet Hasan |
State of the art of schizophrenia pharmacological treatment | Christoph Correll - Pharmakologie |
The role of peers in clinical practice | Candelaria Mahlke |
DTI in schizophrenia research | Ofer Pasternak Marek Kubicki Amanda Lyall |
Neurostimulation in schizophrenia | Sebastian Walther Christoph Mulert |
Meet the Expert | Christos Pantelis |
Non-profit society for the advancement of research at the Centre for Psychiatry
Justus Liebig University School of Medicine
Giessen, Germany, EU