Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors

Alexander Baldacchino, is Professor at St Andrews Univerity. He is working on understanding the comorbid conditions (physical and psychological) arising as a result of chronic abuse of pharmacological agents with dependence potential especially opioids and alcohol. He is interested in utilising informatic systems, clinical outcome data, neuropsychological and neuroimaging processes amongst many other possibilities in order to identify and minimise risks present in this patient population He is Currently chair for the World Psychiatrc Association (WPA) Addiction Psychiatry Section and Past Immediate President and Distinguished Fellow of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM). He is also founding member for the European Network for Training, Education and Research (ENTER)-Mental Health. Other previous positions include Associate Director for the Social Dimensions of Health Institute (SDHI), NHS Fife Research and Development (R&D) Director, Clinical Director in Addiction Medicine with NHS Fife and President for ISAMDundee2015 World Congress.

Yasser Khazaal is Full professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the Lausanne University Hospital and associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Montreal University, Canada. He is member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Board as well as the World Association of Social Psychiatry. He is involved in several studies related to substance use and other addictive disorders, cognitive and behavioural treatments, e-mental health, digital health, as well as in projects related to the development and assessment of games or computer-based treatments for different mental health disorders.