12.02.2018: Symposium

New perspectives on the human thalamus

Emmanuel Barbeau
Centre de recheche Cerveau & Cognition, UMR5549, Toulouse, France
Is the thalamus involved in familiaritity and recollection?

Lola Danet
Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Université de Toulouse and Neurology Department,CHU Toulouse Purpan, Toulouse, France
What's this chamber doing in my brain? The role of the thalamus in memory

Giulio Pergola
Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari, Aldo Moro, Italy
The human thalamus from cognition to molecules

24.04.2018: Conference

Extinction Learning: neural, behavioural, ontogenetic, educational, and clinical mechanisms

Neil Harrison
Psychoneuroimmunology Lab, Department of Neuroscience, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
A neurocomputational account of how inflammation differentially modulates learning to punishments versus rewards

Ulrike Weber-Stadlbauer
Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Transgenerational transmission of behavioral deficits induced by prenatal immune activation

Arthur Liesz
Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms in Acute Brain Ischemia

Marie Monfils
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Predicting extinction phenotype to optimize fear reduction

Tor D Wager
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Frontostriatal and frontobulbar systems linking appraisal, extinction, and avoidance

Jamila Andoh
Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
Brain learning circuitry in chronic pain

Allison Waters
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Towards a cognitive-learning formulation of anxiety: Basic science and treatment implications

Christian Büchel
Institute of Systems Neuroscience University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Expectations shape pain: The role of learning

Paul Pauli
Department of Psychology I, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany
Acquisition, extinction and generalization of contextual anxiety

Renée M Visser
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Tracing the dynamic representations of emotional memories in humans

Ingrid Ehrlich
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Germany
Amygdala circuits and mechanisms in associative auditory fear and extinction memory

Ann Meulders
Health Psychology Research Group, KU Leuven University, Belgium & Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Pain-related fear and avoidance in chronic pain: an associative learning account

04.06.2018: Symposium

Content-specific representations in the human brain

Marcel Van Gerven
Artificial Intelligence Department; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Neural networks as a window on human cognition

Alex Clarke
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
The neural architecture and dynamics of visual and semantic processing in the brain

Radoslaw Martin Cichy
Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
A spatiotemporally resolved account of visual object recognition

04.07.2018: Symposium

Mechanisms of sensory information processing in visual and memory systems

Elizabeth Zavitz
Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
How is visual motion encoded within and between brain areas

Sajikumar Sreedharan
Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
The p75 neurotrophin receptor is a necessary mediator of synaptic and behavioral changes induced by sleep deprivation

09.07.2018: Symposium

Thalamocortical oscillations in health and disease states

Stéphane Charpier
Brain & Spine Institute, Sorbonne University, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
Mechanisms and consequences of the spike-and-wave oscillations

Magor Lorincz
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Neuroscience, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Thalamo-cortico-thalamic firing dynamics in absence epilepsy

Nathalie Leresche
Neuroscience — Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Inserm, Paris, France
The many faces of T-type calcium channels in thalamic networks

03.09.2018: Symposium

Auditory and Multisensory proccesing

Andrew King
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
Multisensory Influences on Auditory Processing

Massimiliano Zampini
Multisensory Research Group, CiMeC Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy
Audiotactile interactions

Eike Budinger
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Dept. Systems Physiology of Learning, Magdeburg, Germany
From birth until old age: Postnatal development of cortical multisensory connections and influence of early sensory experience

19.11.2018: Symposium

Translational approaches to understanding Bipolar Disorder

Georg Juckel
LWL University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum
The Bochum early bipolar recognition approach: Successful screening of large student cohorts

Elisa Brietzke
Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil and Queen's University, Canada
From inflammation to immunossenescence: the role of immune system in pathophysiology of bipolar disorder

Nadja Freund
Molecular and Experimental Psychiatry, LWL University Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum
Bipolar disorder-like cycling of behavior induced by D1 receptor manipulation

17.12.2018: Symposium

The meaning of artificial somatosensory feedback for the embodiment of prosthetic limbs

Andrew B. Schwartz
University of Pittsburgh
Recent progress toward High-Performance neural prosthestics

Bijan Pesaran
Center for Neural Science, New York University
Modulating neuro interactions across large-scale networks — Implications for neural prostheses

Hans Jörg Scherberger
Faculty of Biology and Psychology, University of Göttingen
Cortical sensory and motor processing for grasping