For the first time, the Department of Neurosurgery and Neurology with courses in psychiatry, narcology, medical psychology of Sumy State University Medical Institute is presented at the arena of the 29th European Psychiatric Congress (EPA 2021), which took place in virtual format on April 10-13, 2021. Professor Potapov Oleksandr, associate professors Mudrenko Iryna, Kolenko Oksana, Yurchenko Alla, assistant Chinyak Olgа,graduate student Alexei Yurchenko and clinical resident Elsavir Eid took an active part in the work of the congress. E-posters of the department staff are presented in the sections Depressive disorders, Molecular and Genetic Neurobiology, Suicidology and suicide prevention. The following scientific papers were presented at the congress: O. Chyniak Association between IL-17, IL-23 with neurocognitive scales in patients with Alzheimer’s disease; I. Mudrenko, O. Potapov, Elsavir Eid, V. Mudrenko The program of complex differentiated medical and psychological rehabilitation of suicidal behavior in dementia; O. Kolenko Anxiety-depressive disorders in patients with dysarthria against the background of organic brain damage; A. Yurchenko Neurophysiological features associated with suicidal risk in dementias; O. Kolenko Neuroimaging correlates of suicidal behavior in dementia.
