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International Graduate School of Neuroscience

IGSN/SFB 1280/BIOME Conference

Extinction Learning: neural, behavioural, ontogenetic, educational, and clinical mechanisms

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

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

 
10:05

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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
9:55

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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
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

 
16:00
Farewell — End of conference

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