International Graduate School of Neuroscience

Learning and memory: mechanisms, functional correlates, control and extinction

Monday, March 4, 2013 - Tuesday, March 5, 2013

• German Barrionuevo
• University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Synapse-specific compartmentalization of signaling cascades for LTP induction in CA3 interneurons

• Brian E. Derrick
• University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
• LTP and Function of the Direct Entorhinal Projections to Hippocampal regions CA3 and CA1 in vivo

• Bruce Mcnaughton
• University of Lethbridge, Canada
• Doughnuts in the brain: A toroidal attractor theory of the cognitive map

• Agnes Gruart
• Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain
• Learning and memory as functional states of the brain

• Marijn van Wingerden
• Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Good Vibrations: Rhythms and Plasticity in Neural Correlates of Value in Rat Orbitofrontal Cortex

• Tobias Kalenscher
• Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Resisting and restricting temptation - neural signatures of willpower and precommitment

• Dominic Cheng
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
• Functional MRI and tDCS Investigations of Human Eyeblink Conditioning

• Craig Stark
• University of California, Irvine, USA
• The role of human hippocampal subfields in pattern separation, aging, and MCI

• Cyril Herry
• INSERM U862, Neurocentre Magendie, University of Bordeaux, France
• Amygdala neuronal circuits of fear extinction

• Marie Monfils
• University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Reconsolidation-extinction interactions in fear memory attenuation

• Thomas Agren
• Uppsala University, Sweden
• Removing fear from memories using reconsolidation disruption