
SNC'21 | LIVE
SiNAPSA Neuroscience Conference 2021

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
13:55–14:00 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
15:00–15:30 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 DISORDERS/ Chair: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
16:45–17:00 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
17:30–17:45 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 NEUROPATHY/ Giuseppe 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?
_cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ / Dejan Georgiev
13:50-14:00 Impulsivity in STN-DBS PD: More than a unitary phenomenon / Tjaša Mlinarič
14:00–14:10 Effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on language in advanced Parkinson's disease / Long live Drakulić
14:10–14:30 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 MANDATE/ Sonia M. Vallabh
Neuroscience and Society Dialogue | 19:45– 20:30
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 SYSTEMS/ Eiko 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
14:00–14:30 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
16:00–16:30 What is brain health? Perceptions of respondents to the Global Brain Health Survey
_cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_ / Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne for Lifebrain Consortium
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