Wednesday 17th April
Go to: Sunday 14th - Monday 15th - Tuesday 16th
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL: PLENARY 8:30 - 9:30
P8: Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Vanderbilt University, USA
The 2019 Wolstencroft Lecture
What good are more cortical neurons? Live longer and do more!
8:30 - 9:30, the Auditorium, CCD
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL: SESSIONS 09.30 - 11.10
S30: Vestibular cognition
Convened by the Experimental Psychology Society
David Wilkinson, University of Kent, UK (co-chair) - Vestibular Stimulation: an adjuvant therapy for cognitive and psychiatric impairment?
Elisa Ferre, University of London, UK (co-chair) - Vestibular contribution to human perception and cognition
Peter zu Eulenburg, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universitat, Germany - The human vestibular cortex
Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland - The plastic self: how vestibular signals influence the sense of self and embodied cognition
S31: Sleep and the neuroendocrine system
Convened by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology
Henrik Oster, University of Lubeck, Germany - Animal models of sleep, and neuroendocrine physiology
Nayantara Santhi, University of Surrey, UK - Human sleep, and neuroendocrine physiology
Eve Van Cauter, University of Chicago, US (co-chair) - Sleep, Hormones and Metabolism
Edward Harding, Imperial College London, UK (10 minute ECR talk) - Distinct preoptic neurons connect sleep onset and body cooling in response to a warm stimulus
Konstantinos Kalafatakis, University of Bristol (10 minute ECR talk) - Changes in the pattern of circulating cortisol differentially modulate daily mood oscillations and the resting state networks of the human brain
Co-chair: John Johnston, University of Surrey, UK
S32: Advances in Child Neurology 2019
Convened by the British Paediatric Neurology Association
Anne Marie Childs, Leeds General Infirmary, UK - SMA and DMD: what is best practice care?
Katharina Vezyroglou, UCL-Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK - ATP1A3 related disease through the ages
Helen Cross, UCL-Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK (co-chair) - New ways forward in childhood epilepsy
Ming Lim, Evelina Childrens Hospital, London, UK (co-chair) - Autoimmune neurological disease in childhood
S33: New molecular approaches for understanding synapses, circuits, and behaviour
Yvonne Jones, University of Oxford, UK - Semaphorin-plexin complexes, signalling and synapses - a structure-function perspective
Marco Tripodi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK - Using self-inactivating, trans-synaptic rabies virus to map and manipulate neural circuits
Jonny Kohl, University College London, UK - Functional Circuit Architecture Underlying Parental Behaviour
Bill Wisden, Imperial College London, UK - Molecular neurobiology of sleep circuits
Chair: Mick Hastings, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
S34: Vascular Neurology
Convened by the Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience
Keith Muir, University of Glasgow, UK - Neuroimaging techniques to optimise selection of acute ischaemic stroke patients for IV thrombolysis or mechanical thrombectomy
Dominick McCabe, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (co-chair) - Update on translational platelet science / haemostasis in ischaemic cerebrovascular disease
Aine Merwick, Beaumont Hospital, Ireland - Optimising risk-stratification to guide management following a transient ischaemic attack
Alex Leff, UCL, UK (co-chair) - Novel approaches to rehabilitation following stroke
S35: Educational neuroscience research into neurocognitive predictors of academic outcome
Convened by the British Psychological Society
Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven, Belgium (co-chair) - Symbolic numerical processing is a key predictor of learning arithmetic
Iroise Dumontheil, University of London, UK (co-chair) - Inhibitory control and science and maths reasoning
Grégoire Borst, University Paris Descartes, France - Sulcal morphology of the brain as an early cerebral constraint on future academic learning
Miriam Rosenberg-Lee, Rutgers University, US - Brain network interactions supporting inhibitory control during rational number processing
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL: BREAK 11:10-11:40
Exhibition hall, CCD
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL: POSTER AWARDS 11:40-11:50
The Auditorium, CCD
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL: PLENARY 11:50-12:50
P9: Lora Heisler University of Aberdeen, UK
Hunger games: New insights into the brain control of hunger
BSN Plenary lecture
11:50 - 12:50, the Auditorium, CCD
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL: CLOSING WORDS 12:50-13:00
The Auditorium, CCD
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL: SATELLITE MEETING 14:00-16:00
CCD (location TBC)
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