International Graduate School of Neuroscience

Welcome - opening of the conference

Josue Haubrich
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
How severe fear learning leads to memories with limited plasticity that are resistant to change

Johannes Letzkus
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
A critical role for neocortical processing of threat memory

Tina Lonsdorf
Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Methodological considerations in research on fear conditioning, extinction and the return of fear

Jan Haaker
Systems Neuropharmacology, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Neuropharmacological mechanisms of threat and extinction learning

Erno Hermans
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Neuroimaging insights into extinction enhancement

Dirk Hermans
Center for Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, KU Leuven, Belgium
Generalization of extinction: clinical perspectives and lab findings

Stefan Reber
Molecular Psychosomatics, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Ulm, Germany
"Old friends", immunoregulation and stress resilience

Luciana Besedovsky
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Memory and the immune system - The connecting role of sleep

Michael Fanselow
Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
The impact of chronic and acute stress on fear extinction

Katja Wiech
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging & Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
The failing of the 'ideal observer': aberrant extinction learning in the context of pain

Maria Lalouni
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Online exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for children with abdominal pain

Susanne Becker
Department of Chiropractic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Impaired reward processing and altered pain-reward interactions: a route to chronic pain?