30.6.2003 - Symposium

Information Processing in the Cerebellum: From Molecules to Behaviour

Boris Barbour
Dept Lab de Neurobiol, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
"The synaptic circuitry of the cerebellar cortex and its possible contributions to cerebellar function"

Christopher H. Yeo
Dept. Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK
"Cerebellar function in motor learning"

Dagmar Timman-Braun
Department of Neurology, University of Essen, Germany
"Involvement of the cerebellum in motor and non-motor learning: Evidence from human studies"

21.7.2003 - Symposium

Role of Nitric Oxide in Cognitive Processing

Paolo Sarti
Department of Biochemical Sciences, CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome, Italy
"Nitric Oxide and cytochrome oxidase: an intriguing story of a two- faced interaction"

John Garthwaite
The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, UK
"The role of nitric oxide in hippocampal synaptic plasticity"

Arjan Blokland
Section Neurocognition, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, Netherland
"The role of cGMP and cAMP in memory formation"

18.8.2003 - Symposium

Alzheimer & Acute's Disease: Physiology, Pathology, Therapeutics

Dick F. Swaab
Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam, Netherland
"Reactivation of metabolically impaired neurons in Alzheimer's disease: a therapeutic strategy"

Vittorio Calabrese
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section, Department of Chemistry, University of Catania, Italy
"Redox Regulation of Heat shock signal pathway in Brain Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders"

22.9.2003 - Symposium

Adult Neurogenesis: Functions and Malfunctions

Lucia Jacobs
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
"Plasticity, representation and the evolution of hippocampal function"

David Kornack
University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
"A Lifetime of Neurogenesis in the Primate Forebrain"

20.10.2003 - Symposium

Neurotrophins More Than Just Growth Factors: From Cellular Signalling to Clinical Aspects

Volkmar Lessmann
Institute for Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
"Synaptic actions of neurotrophins"

Tommaso Pizzorusso
Institute for Neuroscience, University Pisa, Pisa, Italy
"Molecular mechanisms of visual cortical plasticity"

Karl Kafitz
Institute for Physiology, University München, München, Germany
"BDNF-induced neurite outgrowth requires both TrkB and the sodium channel Nav1.9"

17.11.2003 - Symposium

Use-dependent Cortical Plasticity in Humans

Hartwig Siebner
Department of Neurology, Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Kiel, Germany
"Probing motor plasticity in humans with transcranial stimulation"

Robert Gütig
Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
"Learning input correlations through nonlinear temporally asymmetric Hebbian plasticity"

Gregg H. Recanzone
Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, USA
"Rapidly-induced cross-modal plasticity in the perception of space and time"

Brigitte Röder
Experimental and Biological Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
"Blindness: A model to study neuronal plasticity"

15.12.2003 - Colloquium

Mechanisms of Long-term Memory

Irene Daum
Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, Faculty for Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
"Memory systems in long-term memory"

Andrew Mayes
Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
"The role of the hippocampus in long-term memory"