OHBM meets WHO Symposium

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


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