In her lecture, Professor Penninx shared findings from her research on the prevalence of anxiety disorders, discussing potential reasons for their apparent increase, strategies to alleviate their burden, and the functional component of stress.

📊 The scientific program included:

🔹 5 keynote lectures
🔸 15 plenary sessions...
🔹 ...with a total of 61 presentations
🔸 50 on-site posters
🔹 and 5 ePosters!!

First off: #WASAD2025 in numbers! 📊

👉 In total, 227 researchers, clinicians, and psychologists from 19 countries attended the Congress.

The top countries of origin were:
🇩🇪 Germany
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇦🇹 Austria
…followed closely, however, by 🇨🇿 the Czech Republic.

And we were excited to share our latest results: Fantastic short poster talks on their PhD projects by Sofia Oehlke, Max Hirzer, and ÖAW scholar Bettina Pfeffer! 🤩

P.S.: Can't attend in person but still want to explore some of the
posters?

You can already browse the ePosters on our website:

👉 wasad2025.org/poster/

Last but definitely not least, Andreas Schwerdtfeger asks the question: "Does the heart know best?"

In his talk, he evaluates the effectiveness of just in time interventions triggered by heart rate variability to relieve stress 🫀📲