A Word from the President

I am delighted to inform you today that the WFSBP Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Substance Use and Related Disorders, Part 1: Alcoholism have been published in the recent volume of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. 
 
With this comprehensive manual which includes numerous recommendations the WFSBP aims to provide up-to-date treatment options and thus to further improve treatment for patients world-wide and to spread knowledge also in countries with limited continuing education possibilities. I wish to thank Henry R. Kranzler, Chairperson, and Michael Soyka, Secretary of the WFSBP Task Force on Addiction Disorders, and the entire taskforce for their superb work. I especially thank Hans-Jürgen Möller, chief editor of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry for his dedication to develop WFSBP Treatment Guidelines. Thus we are planning to present you further WFSBP Treatment Guidelines in the course of the this year.

As with all WFSBP Treatment Guidelines and Consensus Papers, they are made available as free download on the official website www.wfsbp.org!

I am sure you will find lots of useful and inspiring information in the new issue of the World Journal of Biological Psychiatry vol. 9(1). It is now available as download in the Members Only section at www.wfsbp.org! Use your personal login data to log into the Members Only section right away to read through the newly published articles. You will receive a seperate email with the content of vol. 9(1) of the World Journal of Biolgocial Psychiatry. 

Sincerely yours,

Siegfried Kasper, MD
WFSBP President

Feature Forums

Authored by expert Michael Trimble, MD, PhD (Institute of Neurology, London, UK) this month’s WFSBP Feature Forum

 
is now live and open to receive your comment and contribution.

You are invited to take part in this conversation today and to communicate your views, expertise and experience with our community by posting your opinion and thoughts directly in the Forums zone.

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Treatment Guidelines and Consensus Papers
The WFSBP Task Forces have the goal to develop Treatment Guidelines and Consensus Papers on specific diseases, which will be systematically published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry and made available on the WFSBP web site.

The following Paper is now available:
World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Substance Use and Related Disorders, Part 1: Alcoholism

Online Subscription – World Journal vol. 9(1)
The new issue of the World Journal vol. 9(1) is now available as download for WFSBP members in the Members Only section at www.wfsbp.org. With your personal login data you have access to the Members Only section.

WFSBP Congresses

9th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, Paris, France (June 28 – July 2, 2009)

Online submission for symposia proposals and abstracts for free communications/posters is opened at www.wfsbp-congress.org by end of February.

Other Events

We are delighed to call special attention to:

5th Baltic Symposium of Biological Psychiatry "Treatment of Depression: Beyond Serotonin"
hosted by: Lithuanian Society of Biological Psychiatry
6 June, 2008, Kaunas, Lithuania
www.biological-psychiatry.lt

Heart & Mind Psychogenic Cardiovascular Disease Conference
3-5 September 2008, Prato (Tuscany), Italy
www.heartandmind.prato2008.com

The Brain Lipids Conference
8-11 September 2008, Olso, Norway
www.bl2008.org

2nd WFSBP Asia-Pacific Regional Congress
10-13 September 2008, Toyama, Japan
wfsbp-08.umin.jp

3rd Dual INA-WFSBP Congress: Psychiatry and the Neurosciences
16-19 October 2008, Athens, Greece
www.ina-wfsbp-dualcongress.gr