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April 20th, 2012 (Friday)
12.00	Registration
15.00	Stem cells and regeneration Main Aula B Benedikt Berninger IBRO Alumni Lecture Making neurons from glia and pericytes: the wizardry of transcription factors Ewa Rojczyk-Gołębiewska: Canonical and new sites of neurogenesis in adult organisms Piotr Łażewski-Banaszak: Neurotrophins and their receptors influence the regeneration of a nervous tissue after multiorgan injury caused by gamma irradiation Martyna Śniegocka: Assessment of the angiogenesis in malignant solid tumors of the brain Ryszard Sordyl: The role of IL-1β in the expression of the VEGF after subarachnoid hemorrhage in rats Joanna Sordyl: Acute transverse myelitis in children – clinical presentation and the prognostic factors		Hemispheric Asymmetry of Language and Vision Conference Hall Kenneth Hugdahl Marcin Szwed: Lateralisation and specialisation of brain areas for reading. Evidence from fMRI and intracranial recordings in humans Patrycja Naumczyk: Right Ear Advantage and the Level of Hemispheric Asymmetry for Language Processing – Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Kamila Śmigasiewicz: Is the interaction between hemispheres asymmetric during bilateral RSVP? Evidence from behavior and N2pc and P3 components of ERPs Piotr Styrkowiec: Visuo-motor coding in stimulus-response compatibility: A dynamic factor in interhemispheric interaction Rob van der Lubbe: Lateralized EEG power spectra in an endogenous cuing paradigm with to be discriminated visual targets
17.15	Coffee break - Main Hall
17.45	Official Opening & Sponsors' Presentation - Main Aula B
18.15	Plenary lecture Main Aula B Kenneth Hugdahl Auditory laterality: From basic science to clinical applications
19.15	Welcome Reception - Main Hall

April 21st, 2012 (Saturday)
9.00	Neurophysiology Main Aula A Gilles van Luijtelaar Dynamics of network interactions in a cortico-thalamo-cortical seizure model Martin F.J. Perescis: Convulsive seizures in rats chronically treated with a cannabinoid antagonist Jeffrey Martin: Extracranial EEG recordings of terminal depolarisation: The Wave of Death. Marianna Boros: The role of the pontine reticular formation in conscious states		Cognitive Neuroscience Exhibition Hall Aneta Brzezicka Mateusz Gola: EEG beta-band power as an indicator of top-down attention Jan Kamiński: Reaction time increase (delta RT) in Sternberg task correlate with individual gamma cycle length: Further evidence for Lisman and Idiart’s STM model Adam Chuderski: A computational model of fronto-parietal oscillatory mechanisms underlying individual differences in working memory capacity Methods I: Katarzyna Blinowska: Information transfer in brain estimated by means of Directed Transfer Function
10.30	Coffee break - Main Hall
11.00	Neurogenetics   Main Aula A Oliver Griesbeck Proteins, Biosensors, Brains Marcin Szczot: Mutation in hydrophobic residue of GABAA receptor binding site strongly influences channel gating. Piotr Chmielarz: Gender specific behavioral and molecular changes in mice harboring glucocorticoid receptor deletion in noradrenergic system. Andrea Evinova: Major depressive disorder: polymorphism of genes linked with dopamine metabolism in human patients.		Emotional Functioning from Clinical and Experimental Perspective Exhibition Hall Sven Müller The consequences of being anxious early in life: Adolescent anxiety and its impact on the brain and cognition Annekathrin Schacht: Electrophysiological correlates of emotional stimulus processing Mirosław Wyczesany: Emotional responsiveness related to visual processing as revealed by EEG component clustering Szczepan Grzybowski: The influence of context on the processing of emotional and neutral adjectives - an ERP study
12.30	Plenary lecture Main Aula A Sergey Kasparov How can we understand interplay between three components of the brain:  neurones, glia and blood vessels?
13.30	Lunch - Main Hall
14.30	Poster session - Main Hall Medical Case Reports - Hall, 1^st Floor
15.30	Neuropsychiatry Main Aula A  Istvan Katona IBRO Alumni Lecture The synaptic circuit-breaker and its breakdown in brain disorders Klaudia Szklarczyk: Susceptibility to stress and transcriptional changes in brain regions critical for fear memory – what can we learn from the mouse model of PTSD? Maria Lojowska: Functional and volumetric changes within the fronto-striatal reward system in adolescents and adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Anastasia Medvid: Compliance in the Treatment of Children with ADHD.		Neural Correlates of Language Processing Exhibition Hall Marcin Szwed The metamodal brain. fMRI evidence for a reading center in the visual cortex without visual experience Anna Tyborowska: Spatial cue use in bilinguals and monolinguals: An fMRI study Jakub Szewczyk: Semantic integration and lexical access - two sides of the same coin? Methods II: Agnieszka Burzyńska: Lower white matter integrity is related to higher BOLD signal in healthy adult brain: A whole-brain multivariate integration of fMRI and DTI
17.00	Coffee break - Main Hall
17.30	Plenary Lecture Main Aula A Margaret Niznikiewicz Communication and communication dysfunction in schizophrenia
18.30	Scientific Career Opportunities - Main Aula A
20.30	Social Events

April 22nd, 2012 (Sunday)
9.30	Neurodegeneration Main Aula A Elena Dragicevic L-type calcium channels control age-dependent desensitization and plasticity of D2-AR function in dopamine midbrain neurons. Anna Czarnecka: Role of the nitric oxide in the modulation of L-DOPA activity in the 6-OHDA model of Parkinson’s disease Joanna Stepek: Interactions of amyloid β with RAGE (Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts) – a significant phase in AD etiology that could be blocked Karolina Krakowska: Bradykinesia and chorea in Huntington’s disease - which symptom affects daily life more?		Sleep and Pain - Experimental Approach Exhibition Hall Rolf Verleger Sleep inspires insight Katerina Georgopoulou: Cortical excitability in insomnia patients Clementina van Rijn: We feel what we expect: Brain Evoked Potentials measured in a cued pain paradigm Emanuel van den Broeke: Comparing neural correlates of heterotopic facilitation induced after high frequency electrical stimulation of human skin between patients with and without persistent pain 6-7 years after inguinal hernia repair
11.00	Coffee break - Main Hall
11.30	Neuroplasticity Main Aula A Jacek Jaworski Role of mTOR in neuronal development and plasticity Paulina Kaźmierska: Development of glutamatergically induced oscillatory activity in hippocampal formation - microEEG approach Efrén Álvarez: The excitation- inhibition balance as a gate for information propagation in the hippocampus Sailaja A. Goda: Psychedelic hallucinogens dose-dependently increase the power of high frequency oscillations (130-180 Hz) in the nucleus accumbens of freely moving rats.		Visual and Auditory Processing Exhibition Hall Sumie Leung The hierarchical organization of auditory change detection in the human brain Christian Kärgel: Mismatch Negativity latency and negative symptoms in schizophrenia Michał Bola: Neurophysiology of visual processing in subjects with optic nerve damage – a VEP study Małgorzata Wrzosek & Justyna Maculewicz: Differences between perceptual noticeable and unnoticeable changes in the human voice pitch reflected by mismatch negativity. The attempt to support dual pathway model in auditory cortex – withdrawn
13.00	Lunch - Main Hall
14.00	Poster session - Main Hall
15.00	Plenary lecture Main Aula A Tibor Harkany Molecular dissection of cannabis sensitivity in developing neuronal networks
16.00	Closing remarks - Main Aula A

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