IGSN/SFB 1280/BIOME Conference

Extinction Learning: The Neural, Behavioural, Ontogenetic, Educational, And Clinical Mechanisms

24th—25th of April 2018, Veranstaltungszentrum, Ruhr University Bochum

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April 24th

9:15

Welcome - opening of the conference
Ulf Eysel Speaker IGSN
Onur Güntürkün Speaker SFB 1280

Session 1

9:25

Brain-Immune-Interactions

9:30

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
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10:05

Ulrike Weber-Stadlbauer
Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Transgenerational transmission of behavioral deficits induced by prenatal immune activation
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10:40

Coffee break / Poster Session / Brainstorming Session (1)

12:00

Arthur Liesz
Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms in Acute Brain Ischemia
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12:35

Lunch break

Session 2

13:40

Extinction & Associative Learning — Foundations

13:45

Marie Monfils
Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Predicting extinction phenotype to optimize fear reduction
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14:20

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
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14:55

Coffee break / Brainstorming Session (2)

15:45

Jamila Andoh
Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
Brain learning circuitry in chronic pain
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16:20

Individual meetings with RUB scientists

April 25th

Session 3

9:15

Emotional processing — Mechanisms of fear regulation

9:20

Allison Waters
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Towards a cognitive-learning formulation of anxiety: Basic science and treatment implications
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9:55

Christian Büchel
Institute of Systems Neuroscience University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Expectations shape pain: The role of learning
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10:30

Coffee break / Poster Session / Brainstorming Session (3)

11:30

Paul Pauli
Department of Psychology I, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany
Acquisition, extinction and generalization of contextual anxiety
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12:05

Lunch break

Session 4

13:10

Bridging the gap — Implications for psychopathology

13:15

Renée M Visser
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Tracing the dynamic representations of emotional memories in humans
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13:50

Coffee break / Brainstorming Session (4)

14:40

Ingrid Ehrlich
Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Germany
Amygdala circuits and mechanisms in associative auditory fear and extinction memory
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15:15

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
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16:00

Farewell — End of conference

International Graduate School of Neuroscience