[visionlist] please post: Dynamical Neuroscience XVIII, sattelite meeting at SfN

[Jonathan D. Victor]

18th Annual Dynamical Neuroscience Satellite Symposium

The Resting Brain: Not At Rest!

Preceding the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

Thursday and Friday, November 11-12, 2010

The San Diego Convention Center or a nearby hotel, San Diego, CA

The theme of this year's meeting emphasizes the role of endogenous, ongoing 
activity (and noise) in determining behavior.  The concept of "the brain at 
rest" has received much current interest as technologies have evolved which 
allow measuring electrical and physiological activity during periods when 
the subject is not engaged in pursuing any active physical or cognitive 
activities.

In addition to being active at rest, the brain continuously monitors both 
internal and external environments, processes information, and alters its 
activity enabling it to orchestrate specific behaviours regard-less of 
ongoing tasks.  As an example, considerable recent research activity has 
been devoted to examining how the phase of ongoing EEG oscillations 
influence ensuing perception or motor activities.  Other areas focus on how 
correlations of activity across brain regions during rest are related to 
memory for recent experiences.

Resting state functional connectivity shows characteristic changes in 
various psychiatric and neurological disorders, and a better understanding 
of the relationship between brain state and its induced activity due to 
task demands would broaden our understanding of how alterations in this 
relationship may be relevant to these illnesses.

Invited Speakers

Kwabena Boahen, Lila Davachi, Michael Fee, Michael Hasselmo, Vinod Menon, 
Earl Miller,
Tirin Moore, Yarom Nir, Sheila Nirenberg, Patricio O'Donnell, Marcus 
Raichle, Matthew Wilson

Keynote Address

Winner of the 3rd Annual Swartz Prize in Computational Neuroscience

Symposium Organizers

Jonathan Victor, Weill Cornell Medical College and Dennis Glanzman, NIMH/NIH


For logistical information please contact Nakia Wilson, The Dixon Group, 
Inc., (202)-281-2825, <mailto:nwilson at dixongroup.com>nwilson at dixongroup.com

For programmatic information, please contact Dennis Glanzman, NIMH/NIH, 
(301) 443-1576, <mailto:glanzman at nih.gov>glanzman at nih.gov

Register for the meeting and submit a poster at this 
website:  <http://neuro.dgimeetings.com>http://neuro.dgimeetings.com

Jonathan D. Victor MD PhD                       v: 212 746 2343
Fred Plum Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience f: 212 746 8050
Weill Cornell Medical College, LBRC 807
1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065 USA
jdvicto at med.cornell.edu
lab webpage: http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jdvicto/labonweb.html
personal webpage: http://www-users.med.cornell.edu/~jdvicto/jdvonweb.html