From: Dennis Glanzman (glanzman@helix.nih.gov)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 19:48:13 CEST
10th Annual Dynamical Neuroscience Satellite
Symposium
From Experiments and Models to Brain Theory
Friday, November 1, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.
Saturday, November 2, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Preceding the 32nd Annual Meeting
of the Society for Neuroscience
Rosen Grand Center Hotel
Grand Ballroom "A"
Orlando, FL
A dominant goal of the Dynamical Neuroscience Satellite Symposia over the
last decade has been to understand the connection among multiple levels
of neural and behavioral organization. Although much progress has been
made, general organizing principles have been slow to emerge. How do we
relate events at cellular and subcellular levels with large-scale
measurements of the brain in the context of behaviour and cognition? How
do we understand the interactions occurring within and between levels
that underlie cognitive functions? Even the most hard-nosed experimental
neuroscientists recognize the need for theory and a more intimate
connection between theory and experiment.
This year's meeting will bring together theorists, modelers and
experimentalists with the goal of formulating principles of brain
functioning that may serve as a basis for more general statements than
previously possible and the promotion of new questions. In the interest
of understanding integrative processes of the nervous system in relation
to higher brain functions, participants will be encouraged to roam at
least a few scales above and below the level at which observations and
models are made. The presentations will center on how abstract analytical
models can be used in focusing the direction of new experiments.
Invited Speakers
Emery Brown, John Donoghue, Gerald Fischbach, Joaquin Fuster
Eugene Izhikevich, Scott Kelso, Henry Lester, Rodolfo Llinas
Jay McClelland, Wolf Singer, Olaf Sporns, Michael Turvey
Keynote Address: Huda Akil
Poster sessions will be held each day of the meeting.
Program agenda may be accessed via the web at: