Young Scientists' Awards

The Scientific Committee selects eight abstracts out of the submitted applications. The authors are invited to give a presentation as part of our two Young Scientists‘ Sessions. The sessions are chaired by recognized experts for the featured topic. Speakers are requested to show a copy of their ID to prove, they are younger than 35 years of age. The winners receive a Young Scientist Award of € 500 each.

• Samuel Westwood, King's College London, United Kingdom | Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with cognitive training in adolescent boys with ADHD: A double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial
• Melissa Mulraney, Institute for Social Neuroscience, Ivanhoe, Australia | Suicidality and selfharm in adolescents with ADHD and subsyndromal ADHD
• Douglas Teixeira Leffa, HCPA/UFRGS, Porto Allegre, Brazil | Transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of inattention in adulty ADHD: Preliminary results from the TUNED trial
• Eric Barnett, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, USA | Prediction of ADHD using gene set polygenic risk scores
• Arno Depoortere, KU Leuven, Belgium | Overcoming ADHD stigma in the classroom: A study on the effectiveness of an ADHD awareness training
• Paul Rosenau, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands | Effect of methylphenidate on executive functioning in children and adolescents with ADHD after long-term use: A randomized, placebo-controlled discontinuation study
• Michael Connaughton, Lloyd Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | Longitudinal structural connectivity of the limbic lobe in ADHD
• Marcel Schulze, University Clinic Bonn, Germany | Deficient multisensory integration with concomitant resting-state connectivity in adult ADHD