2020.02.25 - 2020.02.26: Conference

Extinction Learning

Josue Haubrich
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
How severe fear learning leads to memories with limited plasticity that are resistant to change

Johannes Letzkus
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
A critical role for neocortical processing of threat memory

Tina Lonsdorf
Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Methodological considerations in research on fear conditioning, extinction and the return of fear

Jan Haaker
Systems Neuropharmacology, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Neuropharmacological mechanisms of threat and extinction learning

Erno Hermans
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Neuroimaging insights into extinction enhancement

Dirk Hermans
Center for Psychology of Learning and Experimental Psychopathology, KU Leuven, Belgium
Generalization of extinction: clinical perspectives and lab findings

Stefan Reber
Molecular Psychosomatics, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Ulm, Germany
"Old friends", immunoregulation and stress resilience

Luciana Besedovsky
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Memory and the immune system - The connecting role of sleep

Michael Fanselow
Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
The impact of chronic and acute stress on fear extinction

Katja Wiech
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging & Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
The failing of the 'ideal observer': aberrant extinction learning in the context of pain

Maria Lalouni
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Online exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for children with abdominal pain

Susanne Becker
Department of Chiropractic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Impaired reward processing and altered pain-reward interactions: a route to chronic pain?

2020.06.03: Symposium

The cognitive cerebellum: connectivity pathways and plasticity mechanisms

Jean Laurens
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The vestibulo-cerebellum: an internal model of head motion for sensori-motor processing and learning

Catherine Stoodley
Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, USA
Cerebellar modulation of cognition

Esther Krook-Magnuson
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Cerebellar-hippocampal interactions in health and for epilepsy

2020.08.31: Symposium

Pathophysiological mechanisms of peripheral nerve damage in autoimmune neuritis

Gerd Meyer zu Hörste
Department of Neurology with Institute for Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
High-resolution characterization of cells of peripheral nerves in health and autoimmunity

Helmar Lehmann
Neurology, University Hospital of Cologne, Köln, Germany

Jeremy Sullivan
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Dominant Mutations of the Notch Ligand Jagged1 Cause Peripheral Neuropathy

2020.09.21: Symposium

Auditory processes in communication and the effect of hearing loss on the brain connectome

Markus Wöhr
Laboratory for Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Syddansk University, Denmark
Rodent Ultrasonic Communication: Brain and Behavior

Stefan Brudzynski
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada
Vocal communication of emotional arousal in rats

Andrej Kral
Institute of AudioNeurotechnology & Dept. of Experimental Otology, ENT Clinics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Loss of top-down interactions in congenital deafness

2020.10.05: Symposium

The catecholaminergic regulation of cognition and memory

Oxana Eschenko
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Locus coeruleus activity after learning: implication for offline memory consolidationr

Tomonori Takeuchi
Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE), Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dopamine, memory consolidation and two distinct novelty systems

2020.11.09: Symposium

Oscillatory mechanisms of attentional selection within working memory

Ole Jensen
Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham, UK
Investigating attention and reading using invisible frequency tagging

Eren Günseli
Department of Psychology, Sabancı University, Istanbul
Dissociating spatial attention and object storage in visual working memory

Freek van Ede
Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Neural mechanisms of goal-directed attention and planning in visual working memory

2020.12.07: Symposium

Parahippocampal systems for sensory information processing

Menno Witter
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Two functionally different sensory streams in the entorhinal cortex

Sara Burke
Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, University of Florida, USA
An Integrative Approach for Understanding and Treating Cognitive Aging Using Animal Models

Sharon Furtak
Department of Psychology, California State University Sacramento, USA
Stimulus-dependent involvement of the perirhinal cortex in fear learning