Cambridge Neuroscience

Cambridge Clinical Neuroscience and Mental Health Symposium

29th- 30th September 2009

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, U.K.

Information

  • Introduction
  • Satellite Meeting
  • Programme Day 1
  • Programme Day 2
  • Registration
  • Location
  • Symposium Sponsors
  • Recital & Dinner

Cambridge Speakers

Geoff Woods

Pain and swelling, suffering and love: the NGF storys.

Maria Grazia Spillantini

Mechanisms of alpha-synuclein toxicity in Parkinson's disease.

Wolf Reik

Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development.

Jeff Dalley

Neural vulnerability mechanisms underlying stimulant addiction.

Barbara Sahakian

Cognitive biomarkers for detecting dementia.

Jenny Morton

Neurological changes in early stage Huntington's disease.

David MacKay

Information efficient communication.

Anne Bertolotti

Misfolding of proteins with polyglutamine expansion.

Ian Goodyer

Early onset depressions: Can neuroscience aid clinical decision making?

James Rowe

Action decisions in health and Parkinson's disease.

Amy Milton

Restoring executive control in drug addiction through the disruption on memories.

Ed Bullmore

Complex brain networks, cognition and schizophrenia.

Alasdair Coles

Multiple sclerosis, depleting lymphocytes and autoimmunity.

Jean-Claude Baron

Mechanism-based therapy of stroke.

Steve O'Rahilly

Human obesity: a heritable neurobehavioural disorder.

Martin Coleman

A multimodal approach to the assessment of impaired consciousness.

Nick Jeffery

Why canine patients provide an important 'missing link' in spinal cord injury.

Roger Barker

Can we ever really repair the brain in Parkinson's disease with cells.

Plenary Lecturers

  • Daniel Weinberger
  • Husseini Manji
  • Mark Hallett
  • Ray Dolan
  • Nora Volkow
  • Ron McKay
  • Wayne Drevets

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Symposium organised by Professor Alastair Compston, Dr. Hannah Critchlow, Professor Peter Jones and Professor Trevor Robbins for Cambridge Neuroscience. Please contact cambridgeneuroscience@googlemail.com for all meeting enquiries.