Programme overview

Spanning the spectrum of human mood, behaviour, cognition and emotion, from basic science to clinical care, the ECNP Congress is Europe’s premier showcase for new research, treatments and technologies in applied brain science.

Speakers

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Highlights of ECNP 2026 programme

  • Unravelling the interplay between circadian rhythms and stress in mental health
  • Advances in clinical trials across psychiatric disorders
  • Retinal imaging as a new window into psychosis
  • Biomarker-based prediction in ADHD
  • Innovative approaches to anxiety treatment
  • Neurobiological insights into schizophrenia resilience
  • Translational progress in bipolar disorder research
  • Understanding treatment resistance in major psychiatric conditions
  • Biological correlates of borderline personality disorder
  • The impact of early-life stress on brain development
  • Cellular and synaptic dysregulation in neurodegeneration and mental illness
  • Emotion regulation through neuroscience, microbiome, and mindfulness
  • Targeted therapies to restore brain and brain-barrier function
  • Cutting-edge neuromodulation techniques
  • Refining animal models to close the translational gap in addiction research
  • Bridging preclinical and clinical findings in psychedelic science
  • AI and digital phenotyping in predicting depression trajectories
  • The transformative potential of artificial intelligence in mental health
  • Addressing excess mortality and comorbidity in psychiatric populations

Join us in Munich to explore the future of translational neuroscience and clinical innovation!

Contributors to the 39th ECNP Congress

The following committees and the Early Career Academy are involved in establishing an up-to-date and well-balanced scientific programme for the Congress, reviewing abstracts for lectures and poster presentations, and supporting other activities. ECNP would like to thank the members of these groups for their invaluable contributions.

Disclosures

ECNP requests speakers, chairs and poster presenters to disclose potential conflicts of interest. This will allow the audience to take potential conflicts of interest into account when assessing the objectivity of the presentation.

  • Chairs are required to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding the content of the presentations at the start of their session.
  • Speakers are required to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current presentation in the first slide of their presentation.
  • Poster presenters are required to disclose potential conflicts of interest regarding their current
    poster presentation at the bottom of their poster.

Potential conflicts of interest can involve: grants, honoraria, shares, paid positions on advisory boards, etc.