CONFERENCE 2016
CONFERENCE 2016

DAY-1



ATTENTION & AROUSAL
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg : Neurogenetic and environment risk mechanisms of severe mental illness
Christian Büchel : The neural basis of fear generalization in humans
Bo Li : The role of the habenula-projecting globus pallidus in behavioral reinforcement
Gero Miesenböck : Operation of a homeostatic sleep switch
Andreas Tolias : Structure and Computations of Cortical Microcircuits
LEARNING & MEMORY
Jonathan Flint : The genetics of major depression
Tobias Bonhoeffer : How experience changes synapses in the mammalian brain
Paul Frankland : Hippocampal neurogenesis and forgetting
Gavin Rumbaugh : Synapse and circuit dysfunction associated with neurodevelopmental disorders
Steve Siegelbaum : Normal and abnormal social memory storage through the hippocampal CA2 region
EVENING
Public Conference by Thomas Insel

DAY-2

PERCEPTION & MONITORING
Trevor W. Robbins : Attention to action: A neurobehavioural dimension for neuropsychiatric disorders
Michael O’Donovan : Genes, synapses and schizophrenia
Matthew Rushworth : Contrasting roles for ventromedial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex in decision making
Mike Shadlen : Probabilistic reasoning and decision making: we are not deep nets
Ray Dolan : Representing value for self and others
Lunch and Poster session

REWARD & AVERSION
Susanne Ahmari : Identifying neural circuit changes underlying OCD-like bahaviors
Barry Everitt : Neural mechanisms of compulsive drug seeking in addiction
Robert Malenka : Neural mechanisms of social reward
Kerry Ressler : Neurogenetic approaches to fear and PTSD: from mice to men
Dan Salzman : Neural mechanisms for learned and regulated emotional behavior
DAY-3

SOCIAL PROCESSES & COMMUNICATION
Declan Murphy : From bench to bedside
Claudia Bagni : Mitochondrial dysfunctions in ASD and schizophrenia
Robert Froemke : Oxytocin, maternal behavior, and excitatory-inhibitory balance
Hailan Hu : Neural mechanism of social hierarchy
James McPartland : Biomarkers of social-communicative development in autism