The Keynote Lectures of the VIII Scientific Symposia were the following:

Dr. Anthony James

Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Highfield Adolescent Unit (Warneford Hospital, Oxford). Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford. United Kingdom.

Lecture title: ‘The pluripotentiality of neurodevelopmental disorders in the first three years of life’.

Prof. Declan Murphy

Professor of Psychiatry and Brain Maturation. Mortimer D. Sackler Professor of Translational Neurodevelopment, and Director of the Sackler Centre for Translational Neurodevelopment, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Head of Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London. United Kingdom.

Title of the Lecture: ‘Autism in the coming decades: what to expect?’.

Prof. Boris Birmaher

Professor of Early Onset Bipolar Illness and Professor of Psychiatry. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic (WPIC), Pittsburgh, USA.

Title of the Conference: ‘Irritability in children, when is it normal, what does it mean, how is it managed?