INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF RESPIRATORY PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY (ISARP)

16th Annual Meeting
and
28th Symposium on Respiratory Psychophysiology

October 25 to 27, 2009
Berlin, Germany

In collaboration with the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
Head: Prof. Dr. Christian Deter, Charité, Berlin

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Posted September 8, 2009

Program Committee:
Ilse Van Diest (chair)
Paul Grossman (co-chair)
Andreas von Leupoldt
Omer Van den Bergh
Elizabeth McQuaid
Daphne Koinis-Mitchell
Andrea Vovk
Nicholas D. Giardino


PROGRAM

Sunday Oct 25 th

14:30-17:30

Pre-Conference Workshops (in parallel)

Clinical Workshop
Clinical strategies for breath modification
Jan van Dixhoorn

Methodological Workshop
Respiratory-related evoked potential (RREP) and respiratory measurement methodologies
Paul W. Davenport, Andreas von Leupoldt, Pei-Ying Sarah Chan, Martin Paulus

Tea/coffee at 16:00

18:00 Official opening

18:10 – 19:00

Invited Address

Respiratory dysregulation in panic patients: defining feature or laboratory artifact?
Frank Wilhelm

19: 00 – 20:00

Welcome Reception

Monday Oct 26 th

8:45 - 10:15

Symposium 1: Perception of Dyspnea

Chair: Andreas von Leupoldt

Self-awareness as determinant of report bias in the detection of external respiratory loads in healthy individual
Sibylle Petersen, Thomas Ritz

The influence of emotion on exercise-induced dyspnea in patients with COPD
Bernhard Dahme, Karin Taube, Maren Henkhus, Helgo Magnussen, Andreas von Leupoldt

The role of nicotine on respiratory sensory gating measured by Respiratory Related Evoked Potentials
Pei-Ying Sarah Chan, Paul W. Davenport

A comparison between cold pressor pain and CO2-induced dyspnea: the match/mismatch model
Steven De Peuter, Thomas Janssens, Ilse Van Diest & Omer Van den Bergh

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15

Symposium 2: Symptom Perception in Adult Asthma

Chair: Paul Lehrer

Perception of asthma symptoms and the outcome of asthma treatment
Thomas Janssens, Geert Verleden & Omer Van den Bergh

Differential influences of the sensory and affective dimension of dyspnea on global dyspnea measurement,
health related quality of life and anxiety in patients with asthma

Sarah Kegat, Hans Jörg Bbaumann, Hans Klose, Steven De Peuter, Bernhard Dahme, Andreas von Leupoldt

Depression-specific information processing bias and potential relationship with dyspnea perception
in patients with asthma

Anja Fritzsche, Bernhard Dahme, Ian H. Gotlib, Jutta Joormann, Helgo Magnussen, Henrik Watz,
Detlev O. Nutzinger, Andreas von Leupoldt

Reduced responses of the insular cortex to dyspnea and pain in patients with asthma
Andreas von Leupoldt, Tobias Sommer, Falk Eippert, Sarah Kegat, Hans Jörg Baumann, Hans Klose,
Bernhard Dahme, Christian Büchel

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch (on your own)

13:30 – 14:30

Invited Address

Ontogenesis of breathing behavior: lessons from newborn mice
Jorge Gallego

14:30 – 16:30

Interactive Poster Session

with tea/coffee from 15:30 on

Subjective and physiological responses to the sensation of dyspnea in high anxiety sensitive individuals:
a pilot study
Manuela G. Alius, Christiane A. Melzig, Andreas von Leupoldt, Alfons O. Hamm

Feedforward regulation of breathing:
Do anticipatory changes in inspiratory motor drive occur when an increased respiratory resistance is expected?

Katleen Bogaerts, Stien Fannes, Omer Van den Bergh, & Ilse Van Diest

Respiratory gating of the acoustic startle reflex: preliminary evidence
Erik Ceunen, Meike Pappens, Omer Van den Bergh, Ilse Van Diest

Respiratory related evoked potentials measure of respiratory mechanosensory activation of the SI cortex in rats
Pei-Ying Sarh Chan, Mark Hotchkiss, Shsherry Adams, Paul W. Davenport

COPD patients' beliefs about the harmfulness of dyspnea and activity avoidance:
the Dutch version of the Breathlessness Beliefs Questionnaire

Mariel Grassmann, Ilse Van Diest, Omer Van den Bergh, Steven De Peuter

Interoceptive stimuli and prepulse inhibition
Meike Pappens, Deb Vansteenwegen, Steven De Peuter, Casper Wuyts, Omer Van den Bergh, Ilse Van Diest

Dependency of illness evaluation on the social comparison context:
findings with implicit measures of affective evaluation of asthma

Sibylle Petersen, Thomas Ritz

Validation of the Dutch Claustrophobia Questionnaire
Elyn Smets, Laurence Claes, Davina Decremer, Lori Maes, Ilse Van Diest

Psychiatric disorders in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) :
What about the symptom overlap?

M. Thöne, C. Kuhn, K. Kühl, K. Kenn, W. Rief

Do patients with idiopathic cough have different psychological characteristics
than patients with medically explained cough?

Omer Van den Bergh, Barbara Verbeeck, Mitchell Silva, Ilse Van Diest, Lieven Dupont

The impact of emotion on respiratory-related evoked potentials in healthy volunteers
Andreas von Leupoldt, Andrea Vovk, A., Margaret M. Bradley, Andreas Keil, Peter J. Lang, Paul W. Davenport

16:30 – 18:00

Symposium 3: Managing Pediatric Asthma

Chair: Elizabeth L. McQuaid

Psychological correlates of symptom perception in critical adolescent asthma
Barbara Jandasek, J.H. Nassau, M.Z. Wamboldt, A. Mansell, E.L. McQuaid, D. Steele, G.K. Fritz

A case study introducing breathing awareness training:
An intervention to improve perceptual accuracy in pediatric asthma

Mariella M. Lane

Using the asthma risk grid to classify children into symptom perception categories
Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, E.L. McQuaid, S. Kopel, R. Klein, G. Canino, G. Fritz

Variability in pulmonary function and symptom perception in children with asthma:
how many days of sampling is required?

Ronald Seifer, Aris Garro, Elizabeth L. McQuaid, Sheryl Kopel, Glorisa Canino, Gregory Kk. Fritz

Clinician, parent, and child ratings of asthma severity and pulmonary function variability
Elizabeth L. McQuaid, Aris Garro, Ronald Seifer, Cynthia A. Esteban, Sheryl Kopel, Daphne Koinis-Mitchell,
Glorisa Canino, Gregory K. Fritz

19:00

Social Dinner


Tuesday Oct 27 th

8:30 – 10:00

Symposium 4: Breathing Behavior and Defensive Activation

Chair: Omer Van den Bergh

Psychological correlates of respiratory responses and their relationship to anxiety and drug/alcohol risk
Paul Lehrer, Evgeny Vaschillo, Bronya Vaschillo, Yomoko Udo Schaller, Eun-Young Mun,
Suchismita Ray, Jennifer Buckman

Ventilatory response to resistive loads and fear of suffocation
Ilse Van Diest, Jef Vandecruys, Goedele Vandersloten

Music Performance Anxiety (MPA):
Cardiorespiratory activity in high- and low-anxious professional music students in a performance situation

Regina Studer, Horst Hildebrandt, Marc Arial, Brigitta Danuser, Patrick Gomez

The relief effect of spontaneous sighs as opposed to imposed sighs
Elke Vlemincx, Joachim Taelman, Steven De Peuter, Ilse Van Diest, Omer Van den Bergh

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee/tea break

10:30 – 12:00

Symposium 5: Dysfunctional Breathing

Chair: Jan van Dixhoorn

The relationship of breathing pattern to measures of breathing functionality as used in breathing therapy
Rosalba Courtney, Kenneth M. Greenwood, Marc Cohen

Falls efficacy and dysfunctional breathing among community-dwelling older persons
Beng Hean Lim, Martin Hofheinz, Michael Mibs, Jan van Dixhoorn

Treatment of dysfunctional breathing: MARM and Nijmegen Questionnaire compared
Jan van Dixhoorn, R. Courtney, E. Anthonissen

The clinical effectiveness of breathing and relaxation therapy: results in routine practice
Jennie Wakker, Jan van Dixhoorn, Ruud Bosscher

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (on your own)

13:00 – 13:50

President's Address

Emotions, Brain and Breathlessness
Andreas von Leupoldt

13:50 – 15:20

Symposium 6: Respiratory Psychophysiology in Anxiety and Psychosomatic Pathologies

Chair: Paul Grossman

Increased defensive activation during anticipation and provocation of interoceptive threat
in panic disorder patients and persons at risk for pathological anxiety

Christiane A. Melzig, Katharina Holtz, Alfons O. Hamm

Exploratory pilot study, randomized controlled blinded trial on Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms (MUPS)
Paul M. Lehrer, Maria Karavidas, Michael Gara, Anu Kotay, Jane Mayers, Jennifer Sawaya, Nasya Breach,
Alejandro Gonzalez-Restrepo, Regina Liu, Javier Escobar

Associative learning of coughing and the urge-to-cough : an explorative study
Omer Van den Bergh, Elke Van der Stappen, Mitchell Silva, Ilse Van Diest, Paul W. Davenport & Lieven Dupont

Posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with altered modulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia
by respiration rate and volume.

Nicholas Giardino, Anthony King, Jeffrey Curtis, Israel Liberzon

15:20 - 16:10

Student's Awards & ISARP Business Meeting

17:00 – 19:00

Sightseeing Tour


Also of interest to ISARP members, the 2009 meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) will be held in Berlin from October 21st- 24th, 2009. Go to SPR site

Also of interest to ISARP members, the 2009 meeting of the German Biofeedback Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biofeedback) will be held in Bad Kreuznach, Germany from October 30-31, 2009. Go to DGBfb e.V. site



Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG has provided a generous and unrestricted grant
to support this 16th annual meeting of ISARP.





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