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SNC'21 | LIVE

SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference 2021

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PROGRAMS

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Opening of the SNC'21| 13:45-14:00 

13:45-13:50 Maja Bresjanac

13:50-13:55 Blaž Koritnik

13:5514:00  Viktorija Radotic

Symposium | 14:00-16:00 

SARS-COV-2 AND BRAIN

Chair:Maja Bresjanac

14:00-14:30  Neuro-COVID - What it is and what it is not / Raimund Helbok

14:30-15:00  Neurological Associations of COVID-19 Vaccines / Jennifer Frontera

15:0015:30  Learning during the pandemic: mapping potential educational inequalities across Europe / Zsuzsa Blaskó

15:30-16:00  Cognitive and Neurological Consequences of COVID-19 / Adrian Owen

Symposium| 16:00-18:00 

METABOLIC BRAIN IMAGING IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERSChair:Matej Perovnik and Maja Trošt

16:00-16:30  Mechanisms of tau pathology spreading in Alzheimer's disease and 4R tauopathies / Nicolai Franzmeier

16:30-16:45  Developing and Interpreting a Deep Learning Model for Alzheimer's Disease Tracking / Alison Deatsch

16:4517:00  Technical Factors Affecting Image Quality in PET / Mauro Namías

17:00-17:15  Cognition-related functional topographies in Parkinson's disease: Localized loss of the ventral default mode network bb3b-136bad5cf58d_           _cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_     / Katharina A Schindlbeck

17:15-17:30  Metabolic correlates in PSP clinical subtypes / Gloria Martí-Andrés

17:3017:45  Specific Metabolic Brain Patterns in Alzheimer's dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies / Matej Perovnik

17:45-18:00  Correlations between brain metabolism and neuropathology in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease / Tomaž Rus

18:00-18:15  Break

Plenary talk | 18:15– 19:00

CAN BRAIN IMAGING UNRAVEL THE TANGLED WEB OF NEURODEGENERATION? Thila van Eimeren

Friday, 24 September 2021

Short Oral Presentations Session I | 11:00-12:00 

dr. Janez Faganel Memorial lecture| 12:00-12:45 

SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHYGiuseppe Lauria

12:45-13:00  Break

Symposium| 13:00-14:30 

DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION FOR MOVEMENT DISORDERS -A NEUROIMAGING PERSPECTIVE

Chair:Maja Trošt and Dejan Georgiev

13:00–13:15  Non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease and Dystonia: Neuroimaging perspective / Vladimira Vuletic

13:15-13:30  The effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on Brain Metabolism and Movement Disorders / Maja Trošt

13:30-13:40  Parkinson's disease as a network disorder: Lessons from connectivity studies / Rok Berlot

13:40-13:50  Frequency modulation in deep brain stimulation: Does it work and is there neuroimaging proof of its action?

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13:50-14:00  Impulsivity in STN-DBS PD: More than a unitary phenomenon / Tjaša Mlinarič

14:0014:10  Effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on language in advanced Parkinson's disease / Long live Drakulić

14:1014:30  Discussion

14:30-15:00 Break

Workshop | 15:00-18:45 

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CNS PROTEIN MISFOLDING

Chair:Lana Blintz

15:00-15:45 |Proteostasis Collapse: A Basis for Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases / Richard I. Morimoto

15:45-16:15 |An update on Tau-related diseases / Gabor G. Kovacs

16:15-16:45 |TDP-43 proteinopathies / Boris Rogelj

16:45-17:15 |Now it is time for research to crack Parkinson's disease / Patrik Brundin

17:15-17:45 |Huntington's disease / Roger A. Barker

17:45-18:15 |Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies / Adriano Aguzzi

18:15-18:45 |A structural biologist's view of neuroscience / Holger Wille

18:45-19:00 Break

AOŽ Memorial lecture | 19:00-19:45

GENETIC PRION DISORDERS AND PATIENT-SCIENTIST'S MANDATESonia M. Vallabh

Neuroscience and Society Dialogue | 19:45– 20:30

Programme

Saturday, 25 September 2021

Short Oral Presentations Session II | 11:00-12:00

Plenary talk | 12:00-12:45 

SYSTEMS ALL THE WAY DOWN: STUDYING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AS BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL SYSTEMSEiko Fried

12:45-13:00  Break

Symposium| 13:00-15:00 

MUSIC AND BRAIN: EVIDENCE-BASED MUSIC INTERVENTIONS IN MEDICINE

Chair:Igor M. Ravnik and Uroš Kovačič

13:00-13:30  Neurology of Music and Brain / Daniel Schoen

13:30-14:00  Research towards evidence-based music interventions / Stefan Koelsch

14:0014:30  The mother's voice, singing and speaking, as a special tool for early interventions in the NICU / Manuel Filippo

14:30-15:00  Heart rate variability in relation to self-selected music or music genres preselected by the researchers / Uros Kovačič

Symposium | 15:00-17:00 

BRAIN HEALTH ACCROSS THE LIFESPAN FINDINGS FROM THE LIFEBRAIN PROJECT

Chair:Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne

15:00-15:30  Aging and brain imaging in Lifebrain / Klaus P. Ebmeier for Lifebrain Consortium

15:30-16:00  What can blood biomarkers tell us about the brain? / Christian A. Drevon

16:0016:30  What is brain health? Perceptions of respondents to the Global Brain Health Survey

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16:30-17:00  Brain asymmetry in aging and Alzheimer's disease / James M. Roe

Plenary talk | 17:00-17:45

EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES AS STRESS SIGNALS: IDENTIFYING NOVEL MECHANISMS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING /Tracy Bale

SNC'21 Closing| 17:45-18:00 

17:45-18:00 Maja Bresjanac

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