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Title: From neuroscience to ultra-brief treatments for anxiety and depression

Abstract: Anxiety disorders and depression are disabling and increasingly common mental health problems, but about half of the patient population do not respond to even the most effective existing treatments. There is an urgent need for the development of more targeted, accessible interventions. A crucial starting point for treatment innovation is to precisely characterise the basic mechanisms that drive illness and recovery, so that these can be targeted more directly for improved efficacy. This talk, suitable for non-specialists, clinicians and experienced academics, will summarise how the brain works differently in anxiety disorders and depression, and how these brain changes are affected by existing treatments. It will then highlight how novel pharmacological strategies targeting these mechanisms more effectively may help lead to more effective treatments as brief as one session.