D E A D L I N E N O V E M B E R F O U R T H
The National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health
Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Science
present
DYNAMICAL NEUROSCIENCE
"Traversing Scales of Organization"
Friday and Saturday -- November 15-16, 1996
A Satellite Symposium of the
26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Washington Convention Center, Rooms 13, 14 and 15
One of the most exciting and promising areas of neuroscience is
our ever growing understanding of how events occurring at one
level of organization influence and control events at another
perhaps very distant level of organization. An example of this
would be the influence of a dopamine receptor-blocking drug upon
the abnormal behavioral symptoms in schizophrenic patients.
While numerous levels of organization exist, neuroscientists
generally focus on perhaps one or two levels, be it molecules,
receptors, cells, systems, organisms or behavior. This
concentration of effort upon a particular level provides crucial
information, for example, the binding coefficients of drugs to
receptors, yet yields little knowledge of the function and
activity of those receptors in the generation of behavior.
An overarching objective of neuroscience is to understand the
principles and mechanisms underlying behavior at all levels, from
molecules and cells through systems and organisms. Only by
examining the interrelationships of activity occurring at
different levels can statements begin to be made regarding the
determinants of behavioral processes. Characterizing such
underlying determinants entails not only empirical investigations
that bridge different levels, but theoretical developments which
provide a conceptual framework within which to interpret the
empirical findings meaningfully.
This satellite symposium will bring together investigators
working at different levels of neural organization, and provide a
forum for open discussion of the practical and theoretical links
between these levels.
Session chairs are: John Jeka (University of Maryland), J.A.
Scott Kelso (Florida Atlantic University), Miguel Nicolelis (Duke
University) and Jeffrey Sutton (Harvard University School of
Medicine)
C A L L F O R P O S T E R S
D E A D L I N E N O V E M B E R F O U R T H
This announcement constitutes a call for posters to be
presented in conjunction with the Symposium. Please
submit poster abstracts, in the same format used for the
Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, to D. Glanzman at:
dynamics@helix.nih.gov
C A L L F O R P O S T E R S
D E A D L I N E N O V E M B E R F O U R T H
Symposium information and a tentative schedule can be accessed
via the World Wide Web at:
http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/DynNeuro/DynNeuro96.html
Registration is limited, and advanced registration is required.
Please contact Matt Burdetsky at The Centech Group, Inc., c/o
NIMH Symposium on Dynamical Neuroscience, 4200 Wilson Blvd.,
Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22203 (703) 812-5396 Fax: (703)
525-2349 E-mail: mburdetsky@centechgroup.com
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DYNAMICAL NEUROSCIENCE
"Traversing Scales of Organization"
Friday, November 15
9:00 Introduction and Welcome
Dennis L. Glanzman, Ph.D. , and
Stephen H. Koslow, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health
9:15 Session One --
Chair - Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D.
Duke University School of Medicine
9:15 John K. Chapin, Ph.D.
Allegheny University of the Health Sciences
Neuronal Population for Dynamic Sensorimotor Integration
10:00 Samuel A. Deadwyler, Ph.D.
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Behaviorally Relevant Codes in Ensembles of Hippocampal Neurons
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Laurence F. Abbott, Ph.D.
Brandeis University
Gain Modulation, Co=F6rdinate Transformations and Attention
12:00 William B. Levy, Ph.D.
University of Virginia
Traversing Time with Synapses, Neurons, and Networks
12:45 Discussion and overview - Miguel Nicolelis
Multiple Temporal Scales of Cortical Dynamics
1:15 Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions
2:00 Session Two --
Chair - John J. Jeka, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
2:00 Avis H. Cohen, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
Locomotion Requires a Central Pattern Generator and a Whole Body
2:45 Gregor Sch=F6ner, Ph.D.
CNRS, Marseille, France
The Dynamic Neural Field Theory of Motor Programming and its Relation =
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Population Activity in Motor Cortex
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 James Collins, Ph.D.
Boston University
Noise-enhanced Dynamics in Neurophysiological Systems: Traversing
Levels of Behavior
4:45 Matthew A. Wilson, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Integration of Molecular Genetic
and Electrophysiological Approaches in the Study of Neuronal Systems
5:30 Discussion and overview - John Jeka
Traversing Scales May Involve Multiple Organizational Schemes
6:00 Main meeting adjourns
7:00 Symposium Banquet
Rooms 20-22, Washington Convention Center
Keynote Speaker - Steven E. Hyman, M.D.
Director, National Institute of Mental Health
"Traversing Barriers of Communication"
Saturday, November 16
9:00 Morning Announcements
9:15 Session Three --
Chair - Scott Kelso, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University
9:15 Per Bak, Ph.D.
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Are Worlds Determined by Falling Grains of Sand?
10:00 Viktor Jirsa, Ph.D.
Florida Atlantic University
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Human Brain: Theory and Experiment
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Leslie M. Kay, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Inter- and Intraregional Dynamics During Olfactory Perception
12:00 Randall D. Beer, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
The Evolution and Analysis of Model Neural Circuits for Adaptive
Behavior
12:45 Discussion and overview - Scott Kelso
Co=F6rdination Within and Between Levels
1:15 Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions
2:00 Session Four --
Chair - Jeffrey P. Sutton, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard University School of Medicine
2:00 James A. Anderson, Ph.D.
Brown University
Intermediate Level Organization in the Nervous System and in Neural
Networks: A Network of Networks
2:45 Marius Usher, Ph.D.
University of Kent, UK
The Role of Recurrent Connections: Neurophysiological Data and Models
of Neural Activity Mediating Perception and Memory
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Linking Phenomenology, Information Processing and Functional Anatomy:
Visual Mental Imagery as a Case Study
4:45 Theodore W. Berger, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
The Role of Temporal Dynamics in Synaptic and Network Function:
Experimental and Modeling Studies
5:30 Discussion and overview - Jeffrey Sutton
Is Integration Across Scales Attainable?
6:00 Main Meeting Ends
6:00 Poster Session
Rooms 38-39, Washington Convention Center
8:00 Poster Session ends