Digital Psychiatry & AI at 39th ECNP Congress

Symposium

S01 – Clinical trials across psychiatric disorders: the good, bad and the ugly

Argyris Stringaris · Christian Otte · Heidi Taipale · Blanca Bolea-Alamanac

Critical look at psychiatric trial design, generalizability, and digital therapeutics, including who gets excluded from RCTs.

Drug Pipeline & Clinical Trials

Symposium

S08 – Speech, digital phenotyping, and artificial intelligence in understanding and predicting trajectories and upcoming episodes in affective disorders

Dominic Oliver · Vera Ludwig · Srinivasan Vairavan · Maria Faurholt-Jepsen

NLP on health records, smartphone-based phenotyping, and machine learning to predict mood episodes and classify affective disorders.

Bipolar Disorder · Depression

Lecture

E02 – EPA Session – Improving psychiatric care in clinical practice: modern ways for treatment delivery

Martina Rojnic-Kuzman · Umberto Volpe

Joint EPA educational session on prevention, early intervention, and implementing digital psychiatry in routine care.

Practice, Policy & Workforce

Symposium

S10 – Innovative approaches to understanding and treating anxiety disorders: from neurobiology to cutting-edge therapies

Andre Pittig · Iiris Hovatta · David S. Baldwin · Peter Zwanzger

Fear extinction mechanisms, genetics, next-generation anxiolytics, and digital/VR therapies for anxiety disorders.

Anxiety Disorders · Neuroscience & Mechanisms

Plenary

PL06 – Virtual reality in youth mental health: evidence, applications and future directions

Lucia Valmaggia

Plenary reviewing the evidence for VR-based assessment and treatment in youth mental health.

Child & Adolescent

Symposium

S20 – How can artificial intelligence transform mental health research?

Eleonora Maggioni · Pavol Mikolas · Saige Rutherford · Lin Baihan

Multimodal AI for patient stratification, generative AI for symptom extraction, and algorithmic fairness in clinical neuroscience.

Pharmacogenomics & Precision Psychiatry

Session

Panel discussion – Artificial intelligence in mental health – Progress and perils

Paris Alexandros Lalousis · Raquel Iniesta · Joseph Kambeitz · Ioana R. Podina

The ECNP AI in Mental Health network presents its European implementation effort, followed by a panel on limitations and risks of current AI systems.