Clinical Neuroscience and Mental Health Symposium


2009-09-28 18:30: Neurological Studies of Rewards Processing In Major Depression (Dr Wayne C Drevets, Senior Investigator and Chief of Sectioning on Mood and Anxiety Disorders for the National Institute of Mental Health in the USA)

2009-09-29 09:15: The simple truth about the genetic complexity of schizophrenia (Dr. Danny Weinberger, National Institutes of Health, USA)

2009-09-29 10:00: Pain and swelling, suffering and love: the NGF story (Dr. Geoff Woods, Department of Genetics, Cambridge)

2009-09-29 11:00: Mechanism of alpha-synuclein toxicity in Parkinson's disease. (Professor Maria Grazia Spillantini, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)

2009-09-29 11:30: Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development (Professor Wolf Reik, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2009-09-29 12:00: Neural vulnerability mechanisms underlying stimulant addiction (Dr. Jeff Dalley, Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge)

2009-09-29 12:30: Cognitive biomarkers for detecting dementia and possibilities for cognitive enhancement (Professor Barbara Sahakian, FMedSci, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Cambridge)

2009-09-29 12:30: Neurological changes in early stage Huntington’s disease (Dr. Jenny Morton, Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge)

2009-09-29 14:00: Cellular plasticity cascades: genes to behaviour pathways in the pathophysiology and treatment of severe mood disorders (Dr. Husseini Manji, National Institutes of Health / Johnson & Johnson, USA)

2009-09-29 15:15:  Writing fast with any muscle (Professor David MacKay, Department of Physics, Cambridge)

2009-09-29 15:45: Misfolding of proteins with polyglutamine expansion is facilitated by proteosomal chaperones (Dr. Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

2009-09-29 16:45: Early onset depressions: Can neuroscience aid clinical decision making? (Professor Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Developmental Psychiatry)

2009-09-29 17:15: Selective motor control and focal dystonia (Dr. Mark Hallett, Human Motor Control Section, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, USA)

2009-09-29 18:30: Music and the Mind (Organised by Cambridge Neuroscience)

2009-09-30 09:00: Emotion, value and the tyranny of choice (Professor Ray Dolan, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, UK)

2009-09-30 09:45: Action decisions in health and Parkinson’s disease (Dr. James Rowe, Department of Clinical Neurosciences / MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)

2009-09-30 10:45: Restoring executive control in drug addiction through the disruption on memories (Dr. Amy Milton, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute / Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge)

2009-09-30 11:15: Complex brain networks, cognition and schizophrenia (Professor Ed Bullmore, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute / Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge)

2009-09-30 11:15: Mechanism-based therapy of stroke (Professor Jean-Claude Baron, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)

2009-09-30 11:45: Multiple sclerosis, depleting lymphocytes and autoimmunity (Revd. Dr. Alasdair Coles, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)

2009-09-30 13:45: Conflict between brain circuits (Dr. Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA)

2009-09-30 14:30: Human obesity: a heritable neurobehavioural disorder (Professor Steve O’Rahilly, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge)

2009-09-30 15:00: Using functional imaging to understand pathological and pharmacological alterations in consciousness (Professor David  Menon, Department of Medicine)

2009-09-30 15:30: Why canine patients provide an important ‘missing link’ in spinal cord injury (Professor Nick Jeffery, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge)

2009-09-30 16:30: Can we ever really repair the brain in Parkinson’s disease with cells? (Professor Roger Barker, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge)

2009-09-30 17:00: Controlling stem cells in health and disease (Dr. Ron McKay, National Institute of Health, USA)