OHBM meets WHO Symposium
The value of World Brain Initiatives for Public Health Gain
12:00-14:30
Room ABC
Chairs:
Shekhar Saxena
Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Karl Zilles
Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany
Council Chair, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Organizers:
Pedro Valdes-Sosa
Cuban Neuroscience Center, Havana, Cuba
Christoph Michel
Department of Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sean Hill
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland
The purpose of this symposium is to raise awareness among the participants of OHBM especially that of young researchers to the need of current research projects that impact upon the staggering burden of disease of brain disorders. We also hope to stimulate discussion around this topic.
Speakers:
Walter Koroshetz
BRAIN Initiative
Director, NINDS, Office of The Director, Bethesda, MD, United States
Katrin Amunts
European Human Brain Project
Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany
Tetsuro Yamamori
Japan Brain/MINDS Project
RIKEN Brain Science Institute/School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Valeria Della-Maggiore
Latin American Brain Mapping Network
Director of the Physiology of Action Lab, University of Buenos Aires, Brazil
Alan Evans
Canadian Brain Initiative
McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Montreal, Canada