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The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease
Thursday, May 7, 2009
8am - 5:30pm
MIT Building 46 Room 3189 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences Auditorium)
The basal ganglia are involved in many aspects of behavior, including reinforcement learning, habit formation and motor control. These brain structures are also implicated in Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, drug addiction and many psychiatric conditions, and are thus important targets for therapeutic intervention. In this one-day symposium, leading international experts in basic and clinical research will discuss progress toward a unified model of basal ganglionic function and dysfunction.
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Symposium Schedule:
| 08:15 -8:30am |
Welcoming remarks (Robert Desimone) |
Ann Graybiel chair
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| 08:30 - 09:15am |
Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute)
How the brain encodes reward
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| 09:15 - 10:00am |
Paul Glimcher (New York University)
Representation of value within the primate brain
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| 10:00 - 10:30am |
Break |
| 10:30 - 11:15am |
Andres Lozano (University of Toronto)
Deep brain stimulation therapy for movement disorders
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| 11:15 - 12:00pm |
Peter Brown (Institute of Neurology, London)
What harm does pathological synchronization in Parkinson's disease do?
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| 12:00 - 01:30pm |
Lunch
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Michael Fee chair
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| 01:30 - 02:15pm |
Kenji Doya (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
Computational models of basal ganglia function
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| 2:15 - 03:00pm |
Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen)
Imaging the human striatum and its modulation by dopamine
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| 03:00 - 03:30pm |
Break
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| 03:30 - 04:15pm |
Paul Phillips (University of Washington, Seattle)
Monitoring dopamine release during reward learning
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| 04:15 - 05:00pm |
Barry Everitt (University of Cambridge)
Neural basis of drug addiction
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| 05:00 - 06:30pm |
Reception (open)
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| 06:30pm |
Speaker dinner (by invitation)
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Registration for this symposium is now closed. Breakfast and lunch are provided to registered attendees. There will also be a reception after the event.
For more information please contact Keren Miller (kerenm@mit.edu or 617 324 2077).
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