Agenda
Thursday, October 15, 2009
8:30 a.m. Registration, Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks and Welcome Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director, NIMH
9:15 a.m. Leon M. Glass, McGill University
Dynamical Disease: The Cardiac-Neural Connection
10:15 a.m. Haim Sompolinsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Control of Chaos in Recurrent Neuronal Networks by Stimulus and Synaptic Plasticity
11:15 a.m. Coffee Break
11.30 p.m. Jonathan D. Victor, Weil Cornell Medical College
The Dynamics of Thalamocortical Circuits: A Population-Based Model and EEG Observables
12.30 p.m. Poster Session and lunch on your own
2.00 p.m. Nancy J. Kopell, Boston University, and Miles Whittington, Newcastle University
Gamma Rhythms and Schizophrenia
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. Peter A. Tass, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine - Neuromodulation, Research Center Jülich, Germany
Long-Lasting Tinnitus Relief Achieved by Acoustic Coordinated Reset Stimulation
4:15 p.m. Keynote Address
Fact and Theory in Neuroscience
Recipient of the 2nd Annual Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
5:00 p.m. Reception - Sponsored by The Swartz Foundation


Friday, October 16, 2009
8:30 a.m. Registration, Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Meeting Announcements
9:15 a.m. Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh
Working Memory, Oscillations, and Disease: Inhibition and Dynamics
10:15 a.m. Uri Tzvi Eden, Boston University
Analysis of oscillatory spiking in the subthalamic nucleus of Parkinson's patients using point process modeling
11:15 a.m. Coffee break
11:30 a.m. Markus A. Dahlem, Technische Universitaet Berlin
Migraine - A Dynamical Disease
12.30 p.m. Poster Session and lunch on your own
1.30 p.m. Suzanne N. Haber, Rockefeller University
3-D Models of Neural Networks in the Primate Brain
2.30 p.m. Coffee Break
2.45 p.m. Alfred Lewy, Oregon Health Sciences University
What Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Depression Can Teach Us About Mathematical Models for Affective Disorders
3:45 p.m. Marc D. Lewis, University of Toronto, and Isabela Granic, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Bringing Time into Brain-Behaviour Analyses of Children’s Behavior Problems
4:45 p.m. Wrap-up and comments
5:00 p.m. Main Meeting Adjourns Poster room will be available until 7 p.m.
 
Nakia Wilson
The Dixon Group, Inc.
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Dennis Glanzman, PhD
Phone: (301) 443-1576
E-mail: glanzman@nih.gov
Website: www.nimh.nih.gov