Tuesday, March 17th, 2015, 6.00pm – 9.30pm (Silchersaal)
Festive Evening: Freiheit, Wille und Gehirn / Freedom, Will and the Brain
with Lüder Deecke, Niels Birbaumer, Johannes Dichgans and Johannes Fried (angefragt)
Music: Olga Šroubková, EMCY Awardee (violin)
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015, 9.00am – 5.40pm (Alois Alzheimer Auditorium)
Symposium: Transient Dynamic Brain States – From Basic Research To Clinical Applications
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Calwerstrasse 14, D – 72076 Tübingen, Germany
9.00-9.30am
Get together with tea and coffee
9.30am
Welcome Address and Opening Remarks
Andreas Fallgatter, MD, University Hospital of Tübingen, Germany
Arnold Mandell, MD, UCSD, La Jolla, USA
9.50am
Niels Birbaumer, PhD, University of Tübingen & Ospedale San Camillo, IRCCS, Venice, Italy
Transient Dynamic Brain States – From Basic Research to Clinical Applications
10.30am
Hal Weinberg, PhD, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
The Beginning of a New Look in the Understanding of Brain Function
11.10am
Coffee Break
11.30am
Margot Taylor, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children & University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
MEG Indices of Cognitive Development: Focusing on Executive Functions in Children with Autism
12.10pm
Stephen E. Robinson, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, USA
Connectivity Differences among Schizophrenics, Unaffected Siblings, and Normal Control Subjects Revealed by MEG Transfer Entropy Analysis
12.50pm – 2pm
Lunch Break
2.00pm
Matthew Brookes, PhD, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Measures of Neural Network Complexity in Neurodevelopment and Schizophrenia
2.40pm
Michael Wibral, PhD, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Neural Information Dynamics in Psychiatric and Neurologic Disorders
3.20pm
Christian Meisel, MD, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, USA
Sleep, Criticality and Optimal Information Processing in Cortical Networks
4.00pm
Coffee Break
4.20pm
Lüder Deecke, MD, University of Vienna, Austria
Getting Ready for Action – The Course of the Bereitschaftspotential from Limbic to Supplementary and Primary Motor Areas via Motor Loops
5.00pm
Surjo R. Soekadar, MD, University Hospital of Tübingen, Germany
Bereitschaftskomplexität: New Approaches to Image Complexity of Dynamic Brain Activity
& Outlook / Concluding remarks
5.30pm
End of symposium
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