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       McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease

Thursday May 7, 2009

Please click on the links below to view the morning and afternoon sessions of our symposium. The schedule for both sessions is outlined below. You will need a Flash player installed on your computer to view the webcast. For a free download of Flash player click here.

Watch the webcast - morning session

Watch the webcast - afternoon session

Morning Session


08:15 -8:30am Welcoming remarks (Robert Desimone)
Ann Graybiel chair

08:30 - 09:15am Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute)
How the brain encodes reward
09:15 - 10:00am Paul Glimcher (New York University)
Representation of value within the primate brain
10:30 - 11:15am Andres Lozano (University of Toronto)
Deep brain stimulation therapy for movement disorders
11:15 - 12:00pm Peter Brown (Institute of Neurology, London)
What harm does pathological synchronization in Parkinson's disease do?

Afternoon Session


Michael Fee chair

01:30 - 02:15pm Kenji Doya (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
Computational models of basal ganglia function
2:15 - 03:00pm Roshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen)
Imaging the human striatum and its modulation by dopamine
03:30 - 04:15pm Paul Phillips (University of Washington, Seattle)
Monitoring dopamine release during reward learning
04:15 - 05:00pm Barry Everitt (University of Cambridge)
Neural basis of drug addiction


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