BrainModes: Meeting on the role of neuronal oscillations in neurological disorders

University of Bristol, 10th - 12th December 2009

Schedule

Thursday 10th December 2009

10.00 - 10.45 Registration (Engineers House Foyer)

10.55 - 11.00 Welcoming Remarks John Terry (Bristol)

11.00 - 11.45 Computational Models of the Brain Michael Breakspear (Queensland Institute of Medical Research)

11.45 - 12.30 Spatiotemporal dynamics of EEG-fMRI signals Petra Ritter (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience)

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.45 An introduction to Dynamic Causal Modelling Karl Friston (Functional Imaging Laboratory, University College London)

14.45 - 15.30 Phase dynamics and synchrony - on phase clusters and Kuramoto networks Andreas Daffertshofer (Research Institute MOVE, VU University Amsterdam)

15.30 - 16.00 Tea & Coffee

16.00 - 16.45 Oscillatory responses in magnetoencephalography during auditory and visual processing Jochen Kaiser (Frankfurt)

19.00 - 20.30 Public Understanding of Science Event: Epilepsy - Different Perspectives on a Complex Disorder Mark Richardson (King's College London), Marcio Moraes (UFMG, Brazil) and John Terry (Bristol)

This event is being organized by the University of Bristol's Centre for Public Engagement. Delegates wishing to attend the event please contact Diane Thorne - diane.thorne@bristol.ac.uk , who will arrange a ticket subject to availability.

Friday December 11th 2009

Morning Theme - Neuroendocrinology and malfunctions

09.00 - 09.45 Ultradian rhythmicity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis Stafford Lightman (LINE, Bristol)

09.45 - 10.30 Modelling model systems Gareth Leng (Edinburgh)

10.30 - 11.00 Tea & Coffee

11.00 - 11.45 Ultradian cortisol pulses in hypothalamo-pituitary disconnected sheep Gerald Lincoln (Edinburgh)

11.45 - 12.30 A mathematical model of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor signalling Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova (Bristol)

12.30 - 13.45 Lunch

Afternoon Theme - Epilepsy

13.45 - 14.30 Very fast and very slow oscillations: future clinical tools in epilepsy? Mark Richardson (King's College London)

14.30 - 15.15 Interfering with short term plastic changes associated with epilepsy Marcio Moraes (UFMG Brazil)

15.15 - 15.45 Tea & Coffee

15.45 - 16.30 Quantitative analyses of epileptogenisis after brain injury Ed Dudek (Utah)

16.30 - 17.15 Single cell responses in the human meidal temporal lobe Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga (Leicester)

19.30 - LATE Conference Dinner Bauhinia Bar and Restaurant (Clifton)

Saturday December 12th 2009

Morning Theme - Movement Disorders

10.00 - 10.45 Electrodiagnostic applications of coherence analysis in Motor Neurone Disease (MND) / Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Mark Baker (Newcastle)

10.45 - 11.15 Tea & Coffee

11.15 - 12.00 Beta Oscillations and resonance phenomena in Parkinsonism Peter Brown (University College London)

12.00 - 12.45 Dissecting the cellular and network substrates of abnormal beta oscillations in Parkinsonism Peter Magill (Oxford)

12.45 - 14.00 Lunch

Afternoon Theme - Neurodegenerative Disorders

14.00 - 14.45 A qualitative model for bipolar disorder Albert Goldbeter (Brussels)

14.45 - 15.30 Model-based inference on pathophysiological processes in the human brain Klaas-Enno Stephan (Zurich)