2016 Symposium Agenda
Session 1: Psychiatric Disorders
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8:30 a.m.
Neurobiological and Computational Mechanisms of Human Social Cognition, Decision-Making, and Willful Choice
Prof. Read Montague
Professor, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University
of College London
Professor, Virginia Tech Carillion Research Institute and Department of Physics, Virginia Tech
9:15 a.m.
Neural Mechanisms Involved in the Interface Between Cognitive and Emotional ProcessingDr. Sonia Bishop
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley
Senior Research Fellow, FMRIB, University of Oxford
10 a.m.
Decision-Theoretic Depression
Prof. Peter Dayan
Professor, Director, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Session 2: Addictive Disorders
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11:15 a.m.
Neural and Computational Mechanisms Underlying Human Decision-Making and Social Interaction in Drug Addiction
Dr. Xiaosi GuAssistant Professor, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Director, Computational Psychiatry Unit, The Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas
Noon
Microcircuits, Macrocircuits, and Working Memory Impairment in Schizophrenia: Insights from NMDA Receptor Antagonist Effects
Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Neurobiology
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Chief of Psychiatry, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Director, NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism
Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD
Director, VA Alcohol Research Center Medical
Director, Schizophrenia Biological Research Center, DVA
Yale University School of Medicine
Session 3: Keynote Speaker
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2 p.m.
Computational Psychiatry and Neurology
Prof. Karl Friston, FRS, FMedSci
Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Scientific Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Professor, Institute of Neurology, University College London
Honorary Consultant: The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UK
3:30 p.m.
Use of Brain Mapping Techniques to Study the Physical and Temporal Organization of the Neural Systems Supporting Human Behavior
Prof. Peter Fox
Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio
Director, Research Imaging Institute
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX
4:15 p.m.
The Modular Brain: Implications for the Understanding and Rehabilitation of Cognitive Dysfunction
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director, Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center
University of California, Berkeley
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The keynote address will be given by the 2016 Branch Award recipient, Professor Karl Friston, FRS, FMedSci. Dr. Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. Among his many accomplishments, he invented statistical parametric mapping, voxel-based morphometry, and dynamic causal modeling. These techniques are
essential to modern human brain mapping and network-based analysis.
