ESF-FENS Conferences on The Dynamic Brain
The Neurobiology of Emotion
11 - 14 November 2012, Hotel La Palma, Stresa, Italy
Final Programme |
The conference is the first of a new series of high-level meetings on the neurosciences in Europe. Co-organised by ESF and The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS, the major neuroscience association in Europe), these bi-annual conferences will bring together outstanding researchers in key broadly defined areas of contemporary neuroscience to discuss current concepts and define challenges for future research.
| Sunday 11 November | |
| From 14:00 | Registration at ESF desk |
| Pain - a forgotten emotion | |
| 15:50-16:00 | Welcome Address from the Conference Chairs |
| 16:00-16:30 | Vania Apkarian, Northwestern University, US The emotional brain in chronic pain |
| 16:30-17:00 | Markus Ploner, Technische University Muenchen, DE The subjective experience of pain – sensation, emotion or hallucination? |
| 17:00-17:30 | Giandomenico Iannetti, University College London, London, UK Pain – the forgotten role of saliency and body defence |
| 17:30-18:00 | Jeffrey Mogil, McGill University, CA Social modulation of and by pain in the laboratory mouse |
18:00-18:30 | Coffee break |
| 18:30-19:30 | Jaak Panksepp, Washington State University, US Emotional Feelings of Other Animals: Do They Exist and Are They Similar to Our Own? |
| 19:30-20:00 | Welcome drink |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
| Monday 12 November | |
| Models of fear and anxiety | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Andreas Lüthi, FMI, CH Inhibition in neuronal networks of fear |
| 09:30-10:00 | Christian Büchel, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg, DE The human amygdala: fear associator or salience detector |
| 10:00-10:15 | Joel Winston, University College London, UK |
| 10:15-10:30 | Gisella Vetere, C.N.R. National Research Council, IT Reactivating fear under propranolol disrupts fear memory and amygdala connectivity |
| 10:30-11:00 | Group Picture and Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Daniela Schiller, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, US The neural interface between imagination and emotion |
| 11:30-12:00 | Rhanor Gillette, University of Illinois, US Neuronal Mechanism for use of affect as information in cost/benefit decision |
| 12:00-12:15 | Renée Marie Visser, University of Amsterdam, NL Neural pattern similarity predicts long-term fear memory |
| 12:15-14:00 | Lunch |
| Emotional Valence | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Daniel Salzman, Columbia University, US, Neural mechanisms linking emotional valence to cognition |
| 14:30-15:00 | Jay Gottfried, Northwestern University, US |
| 15:00-15:15 | Inge Volman, Radboud University Nijmegen, NL The serotonin transporter gene modulates prefrontal control of the amygdala |
| 15:15-15:30 | Tamara Franklin, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, IT Altered limbic-cortical function resulting from repeated social stress |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:15 | Peter Smittenaar, University College London, UK |
| 16:15-16:30 | Jan Deussing, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, DE Anxiogenic and anxiolytic properties of the CRH/CRHR1 system revealed by gain- and -loss of function mouse models |
| 16:30-16:45 | Lynda Demmou, Friedrich Miescher Institute, CH Microcircuits of fear and appetitive learning in the amygdala |
| 16:45-17:00 | Jeremiah Cohen, Harvard University, US The role of the basal forebrain in conditioned excitation in dopaminergic neurons |
| 17:30-19:00 | Poster Session |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 13 November | |
| Emotion and high level cognition | |
| 09.00-09:30 | Patrik Vuilleumier, University of Geneva, CH Decoding emotions and brain > States |
| 09:30-10:00 | Ray Dolan, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, UK Emotion and decisions - a low level solution to a high level problem |
| 10:00-10:15 | Bianca A. Silva, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, IT Dissecting the hypothalamic fear system, role of the ventromedial nucleus in predator-induced responses |
| 10:15-10:30 | Christoph Thoeringer, Technical University of Munich, DE Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone (CRH) receptor type 1 promotes the formation of long-term aversive memories via enhancement of hippocampal AMPA receptor GluR1 - signaling |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Hailan Hu, Institute of Neuroscience, CN The neural circuit mechanism of social hierarchy |
| 11:30-12:00 | Ralph Adolphs, Caltech, US The role of the human amygdala in emotion |
| 12:00-12:15 | Richard Apps, University of Bristol, UK Neural substrates underlying fear: the periaqueductal grey - cerebellar link |
| 12:15-12:30 | Mariska Kret, University of Amsterdam, NL Human pupil synchronization effects social decisions |
| 12:30-12:45 | James Bisby, University College London, UK Extinction of fear is slower, weaker and less context-specific under acute alcohol |
| 12:45-14:15 | Lunch |
| Motivation | |
| 14:15-14:45 | Okihide Hikosaka, National Eye Institute, US Automatic valuation by the basal ganglia |
| 14:45-15:15 | Huda Akil, University of Michigan, US The Neurobiology of Temperament: Models and Molecules |
| 15:15-15:45 | Scott Sternson, HHMI, Janelia Farms, US Deconstruction of a neural circuit for hunger |
| 15:45-16:15 | Naoshige Uchida, Harvard University, US Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break |
| Emotional Disorders | |
| 16:45-17:15 | Kerry Ressler, Emory University, US |
| 17:15-17:45 | Roshan Cools, Donders Institute, NL Aversive Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer in Humans |
| 17:45-18:15 | Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust, Oxford University, UK, The Genetics of Depression |
| 18:15-19:45 | Poster Session |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday 14 November | |
| Emotion and Memory | |
| 09.00-09:30 | Michael S. Fanselow, UCLA, US Fear: From Experience to Memory and From Memory to Behavior |
| 09:30-10:00 | Mauricio Delgado, Rutgers University, US The value of choice and the perception of control |
10:00-10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40-11:10 | Bryan Strange, Centre for Biomedical Technology, ES Neurobiology of the emotional modulation of memory |
| 11:10-11:40 | Elizabeth Phelps, NYU Center for Neuroeconomics, US Changing Fear |
| 12:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| Evolution of emotion/model organisms | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Barry Dickson, IMP, AT The neurobiology of Drosophila courtship behaviour |
| 15:00-15:30 | Scott Waddell, Oxford University, UK Bending the mind of the fruit fly |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Hitoshi Okamoto, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, JP The roles of the habenula in aversive learning and gain of self-confidence in aggressive behavior |
| 16:30-17:00 | David Anderson, Caltech, US What can model organisms contribute to the study of emotion? |
| 18:00 | Departure by boat for Isola dei Pescatori and Conference Dinner |
| 21:30 | Return to Hotel from Isola dei Pescatori |
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Partnership
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)
