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Talairach Lecture
The Talairach Lecture, named after famed neurosurgeon Jean Talairach, is a prestigious honor. Previous lecturers have included: Mahlon Delong, Keiji Tanaka, Brenda Milner, G. Rizzoiatti, P. Magistretti, Vernon Mountcastle, Jun Tanji, Eric Kandel, Wolf Singer, Pasko Rakic, Giulio Tononi, Daniel Kahneman, Michael Gazzaniga, and Patricia Churchland.
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 2010 Talairach Lecturer:
György Buzsáki, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
György Buzsáki’s primary interests are brain oscillations, sleep and memory. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, sits on the editorial boards of several leading neuroscience journals and is among the top 250 most-cited neuroscientists (G. Buzsáki, Rhythms of the Brain, OUP, 2006).
Lecture Title: Oscillation-Assisted Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences Support Cognition
Large-scale recording of neuronal ensembles in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of rodents reveal perpetually changing assembly sequences even in the absence of changing environmental inputs. Identical initial conditions trigger a similar assembly sequence, whereas different conditions gave rise, uniquely, to different sequences, thereby predicting behavioral choices, including errors. |
Keynote Lectures
Keynote Lectures are approximately 30 minutes long and cover a wide variety of topics. |
 Randy Buckner, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Lecture Title: The Brain’s Default Network
Topic: Memory
Randy L. Buckner is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Harvard University and affiliated with the Center for Brain Science. He is also the Director for Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. He trained with Bruce Rosen as a postdoctoral fellow and then Instructor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, where he pioneered new functional MRI methods to study human memory. As Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, his work expanded to include studies of aging and Alzheimer's disease including the exploration of the transition between normal aging and disease.
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 Pascal Fries, Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
Lecture Title: Electrophysiological Imaging of the Attention Network
Topic: Oscillations, Information Processing
Pascal Fries is Founding Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Cooperation with Max Planck Society in Frankfurt, and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. His research investigates whether local and long-range neuronal synchronization has consequences for neuronal processing, what these consequences are, and whether and how they subserve cognitive functions.
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 Eleanor Maguire, University College London, London, UK
Lecture Title: Decoding Memories
Topic: Memory; Decoding Spatial Representations in Hippocampus
Eleanor A. Maguire is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London. She heads the Memory and Space research laboratory at the Centre, where her team seeks to understand how spatial and episodic memories are formed, represented and recollected by the human brain.
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 Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Lecture Title: Psychiatric Neuroimaging: From Maps to Mechanisms
Topic: Genetics
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg is director of Germany's Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, chairman of its department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and chair at the University of Heidelberg. His research focuses on neural mechanisms of genetic risk for psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia, social function, and novel drug targets in psychiatry.
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 Adrian Owen, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Lecture title: Using fMRI to detect conscious awareness
Topic: Neuroimaging in Disorders of Consciousness
Adrian M. Owen is Assistant Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. His research combines functional neuroimaging with neuropsychological studies of severely brain-injured patients. Dr. Owen's recent work on detecting awareness in the vegetative state has attracted widespread media interest.
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 John Rothwell, University College London, London, UK
Lecture title: Real Time Functional Connectivity Assessed Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Methods
Topic: Cortical Physiology, TMS
John Rothwell is the Professor of Human Neurophysiology at UCL Institute of Neurology in London, and managing editor of the journal Experimental Brain Research. His main areas of interest are the pathophysiology of movement disorders and rehabilitation after stroke. He is a pioneer of the technique of transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (TMS).
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 Wim Vanduffel, Harvard Medical Center, Charlestown, MA
Lecture Title: From Monkey to Human and From Human to Monkey: What Do We Learn?
Topic: Comparative Neuroimaging Across Species
Wim Vanduffel received his PhD at the K.U.Leuven in Belgium. As post-doc he developed awake monkey fMRI methods at the KUL to perform comparative primate studies and to study functional interactions between brain regions. Currently he is Assistant Professor at the department of Radiology of Harvard Medical School (Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging) and Professor at the KULeuven. |
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