Recent and upcoming talks and conferences

  • Poster for the 33rd European Congress of Psychiatry, EPA 25, in Madrid, Spain from April 5-8, 2025, featuring city landmarks and event details.

    European Congress

    07.04.2025 | 15:00 - 16:30 | Madrid

    Compulsivity and Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia

    conference
  • Puerta de Alcalá monument illuminated at night in Madrid, Spain.

    NEMEA 8

    24.05.2025 | 11:00 | Madrid

    Pro and cons of stopping the mandatory blood monitoring

    Sponsored by ADAMED

  • Logo of Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress over a pastoral landscape

    International Congress

    23.06.2025 | 10:30 | Newport

    Clozapine-induced excessive checking: mechanisms and treatment

    Conference

Selected talks

Vintage photograph of a person in a costume with a presentation title, "One hundred years since Nijinsky met Bleuler: Can we still learn from individual cases?" by Emilio Fernandez-Egea, scheduled for 7th March 2019.

Nijinsky and the schizophrenias

  • University of Cambridge,

    CPFT Lunchtime talk

  • Here, I explored the limits of the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia. Exploring the case of Nijinsky, the best ballet dancer in history, his psychosis and the meeting with Bleuler, who coined the term schizophrenia(s)

Presentation slide titled 'Symptoms of Schizophrenia Treatment' by Emilio Fernandez-Egea, with CPFT and University of Cambridge logos. Dated June 18, 2020.

Clozapine and excessive checking

  • University of Cambridge.

    Lunchtime talk

  • We use antipsychotics to treat symptoms of schizophrenia…. but occasionally, the same medication can cause (or exacerbate) other symptoms. Here, I explore the impact of clozapine on sedation (causing apathy) or excessive checking (which could be considered a stereotypia)

Presentation slide titled 'New paradigms for the negative symptoms' by Emilio Fernandez-Egea from Cambridge Psychosis Centre, presented during CPFT Lunchtime talk on Thursday, November 11, 2021.

Negative symptoms of schizophrenia

  • University of Cambridge

    CPFT lunchtime talk

  • Negative symptoms, a lack of previous function, are a core feature of schizophrenia. However, there is growing evidence that we should explore the two dimensions, motivation and emotion, as distinct features.