Psychogenic Cardiovascular Disease: Experimental Models

Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:00 - 12:30

Chair Associate Professor Markus Schlaich BakerIDI Heart and Diabetes InstituteAustralia
Coping styles in animals : individual variability, disease associations and underlying neurobiological mechanisms
  • Professor Sietse de Boer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Chronic stress and cardiovascular disorders : what can we learn from the animal models?
  • Prof Eugene Nalivaiko, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy - University of Newcastle, Australia
Social defeat and isolation: cardiac, adrenocortical and behavioral effects in rats
  • Prof Andrea Sgoifo, Stress Physiology Lab - Dept. of Evolutionary & Functional Biology - University of Parma, Italy
Sympathoadrenal system activity and gene expression in rats with paraventricular nucleus deafferentation after stress exposure
  • Professor Richard Kvetnansky, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic