Seminar – Bridging Early Detection and Innovation in Adolescent Mental Health: Current Research & Emerging Digital Solutions
November 24th 2025
Seminar 24 November 2025 - Bridging Early Detection and Innovation in Adolescent Mental
Health: Current Research & Emerging Digital Solutions
The BRCCH cordially invites you to join a seminar on mental health of young populations. During this talk, three experts in psychology and neuroscience will share with us how digital technology is currently supporting the early diagnosis and treatment of adolescents affected by mental health conditions.
When: Monday, 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 CET
Where: Hybrid Zoom / Seminar room U1.193– Biozentrum, University of Basel, Spitalstrasse 41, 4056 Basel
Keynote by Dr Dorothée Bentz (University of Basel): "From Virtual Reality to Online Interventions: Harnessing Technology to address common mental health challenges in young populations"
Keynote by Dr Marc Birkhölzer (Universitäre psychiatrische
Dienste Bern): "The EARLY Study: Investigating early signs, risk factors and developmental course of personality functioning impairment in young people – an international multicenter longitudinal study – initial findings and current status"
Keynote by Ana Gregorec (University Medical Center
Maribor, Slovenia): "Adolescent Personality Disorders in Slovenia: The EARLY Study, Other Ongoing Research and Current Diagnostic Practice"
Q&A and Closing
Speakers:
Dr Dorothée Bentz
University of Basel, Switzerland
Profile
PD Dr Dorothée Bentz is a translational psychotherapy researcher with a dual background in clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Her work aims to close gaps in mental health care by developing evidence-based interventions, integrating new technologies, applying translational methods, and identifying new points of intervention through targeted applied basic research.
Dr Dorothée Bentz co-leads the BRCCH project "EARLY: Investigating Early Signs and Developmental Course of Personality Disorders in Young People." Read more here.
Dr. Marc Birkhölzer
Universitäre psychiatrische Dienste Bern
Profile
Dr Marc Birkhölzer is a psychiatrist at the University of Basel and a senior physician in the Juvenile Forensic Department at University Psychiatric Clinics Basel. His research focuses on personality disorders. Over the years, he has built an extraordinary network of collaborators in countries all over the world.
Dr Marc Birkhölzer leads the BRCCH project "EARLY: Investigating Early Signs and Developmental Course of Personality Disorders in Young People." Read more here.
Ana Gregorec
University Medical Center Maribor, Slovenia
Profile
Ana Gregorec is a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychological Studies and a clinical psychology resident. She works at the University Clinical Center Maribor (Slovenia), Division of Pediatrics, Unit for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her research focuses on personality pathology in adolescents, emphasizing early signs and developmental pathways beginning in childhood. Her work aims to clarify the transdiagnostic clinical value of new dimensional models of personality disorders.
Ana Gregorec is a Researcher in the BRCCH project "EARLY: Investigating Early Signs and Developmental Course of Personality Disorders in Young People." Read more here.
