Meeting/Workshop
The Cognitive Thalamus
December 12 - 13, 2013
Strasbourg (France)
PROGRAM
Thursday, December 12th
08.50 Registration – Welcome coffee
09.20 Word of the hosting territorial authority: Monique Jung, Vice-Présidente de la Région Alsace
09.30 Jean-Christophe Cassel: Welcome and opening talk
09.35 Marina Bentivoglio: From the nuptial bed to the centerof the brain: the never ending story of the thalamus
MORNING SESSION - Chair: Marina Bentivoglio
10.00 John Aggleton: The distal impact of anterior thalamicdamage upon the retrosplenial cortex and hippocampus:a case for covert pathology
10.40 Coffee Break
11.10 Michael Kopelman: What does the alcoholic Korsakoffsyndrome tell us about thalamic amnesia?
11.50 Anne Lise Pitel: Effects of alcohol dependenceon thalamus
12.30 Lunch and poster session (on site)
AFTERNOON SESSION - Chair: Seralynne Vann
14.00 Marina Bentivoglio: State-dependent behaviour: thalamicmidline as nodal point of sleep-wake regulatory networks
14.40 Yogita Chudasama: The thalamus and behaviour:effects of distinct thalamic lesions
15.20 Audrey Hay: Rhomboid nucleus thalamocortical projectionsprobed with optogenetics
15.25 Coffee Break
15.50 John Dalrymple-Alford: Anterior thalamic lesions andrecovery of function: relevance to cognitive thalamus
16.30 Anna Mitchell: What does the mediodorsal thalamus do
Friday, December 13th
MORNING SESSION - Chair: Anna Mitchell
09.00 Robert Vertes: Limbic circuitry of the midline thalamus
09.40 Giulio Pergola: Associative learning beyond the medialtemporal lobe: many actors on the memory stage
10.20 Coffee Break
10.50 Seralynne Vann: The Importance of Limbic Midbrain Inputsfor Medial Diencephalic Function
11.30 Mathieu Wolff: Functional heterogeneity of limbic thalamicnuclei: from hippocampal to cortical functions
12.30 Lunch and poster session (on site)
AFTERNOON SESSION - Chair: Yogita Chudasama
14.00 Robert G. Mair: Influence of central thalamus on memorycoding properties of neurons in prefrontal cortex of the rat
14.40 Anne Pereira de Vasconcelos: Reuniens and rhomboid nucleiand spatial cognition: online or offline processing?
15.20 Coffee Break
15.50 Lisa M Savage: The nucleus reuniens mediates hippocampalfrontalinteractions for recovery of functioning in diencephalicamnesia
16.30 Xu Wei: Prefrontal Cortex-Thalamus Circuits in Fear LearningAnd Memory
17.10 Jean-Christophe Cassel: Closure and reminders
DATES AND VENUE
December 12th - 13th, 2013
Location:
Maison de la Région
1 place Adrien - Zeller
67000 Strasbourg - France