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SUMMARY:Complex brain networks\, cognition and schizophrenia - Professor E
 d Bullmore\, Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute / Department
  of Psychiatry\, Cambridge
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CONTACT:Hannah Critchlow
DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of the Cambridge Clinical Neuroscience and M
 ental Health Symposium\, 29th - 30th September 2009 at West Road Concert H
 all. This event is free to attend for cambridge neuroscientists although r
 egistration is required. To register\, and for further information\, pleas
 e visit: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/cnmhs/\n\nAbstract: Recent deve
 lopments in the statistical physics of complex networks can be translated 
 to an understanding of the brain’s structural and functional networks at
  many scales of space and time\, and in different species [1]. I will disc
 uss how network analysis based on graph theory has been used to explore sm
 all-world\, hierarchical\, modular and cost-efficient topological architec
 tures in human brain networks derived from structural and functional MRI a
 nd magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data. In the context of this technical ba
 ckground\, I will review work that has linked brain network organization t
 o cognitive function and has identified disease-related abnormalities in n
 etwork configuration that are compatible with the concept of schizophrenia
  as a syndrome of dysconnectivity in large-scale brain networks [2].  \n\n
 Biosketch: Ed Bullmore trained in medicine at Oxford (BA 1981) and St Bart
 holomew’s Hospital London (MBBS 1985). He was a Lecturer in Medicine at 
 the University of Hong Kong (MRCP 1989) before starting clinical training 
 in Psychiatry at St George’s Hospital and the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley
  Hospitals\, London (MRCPsych 1993). From 1993\, his research training was
  supported by the Wellcome Trust at the Institute of Psychiatry in London\
 ; he completed a PhD in statistical analysis of magnetic resonance imaging
  in 1997. Since 1999\, he has been a Professor of Psychiatry and a foundin
 g Director of CAMEO\, an award-winning service for first episode psychosis
  in Cambridge. Since 2005 he has been Clinical Director of the Wellcome Tr
 ust and MRC-funded Behavioural & Clinical Neurosciences Institute and has 
 worked half-time for GlaxoSmithKline as Vice-President\, Experimental Medi
 cine and Head\, Clinical Unit Cambridge. Ed Bullmore has published more th
 an 200 peer-reviewed papers and his research on brain networks has largely
  been supported by a Human Brain Project grant from the National Institute
 s of Health. In 2008\, he was elected FMedSci and\, in 2009\, FRCPsych. \n
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LOCATION:West Road Concert Hall
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