CNS 2014 Workshop

Cortical Oscillations: Computational models and dynamic mechanisms

    Description

    Oscillatory activity at various frequency ranges have been observed in various areas of the brain and are believed to be important for cognitive functions such as learning, memory, navigation and attention. Disruption of rhythmic oscillations has been implicated in diseases of the nervous system including epilepsy and schizophrenia. Neuronal oscillations have been studied at the single cell level, as the result of the interaction of a neuron's intrinsic properties, at the network level, as the result of the interaction between the participating neurons and neuronal populations in a given brain region, and at higher levels of organization involving several of these regions. The advances in this field have benefited from the interaction between experimental and theoretical approaches.

    The purpose of this workshop is to bring together both experimentalists and theorists with the goal of discussing their results and ideas on both the underlying mechanisms that govern the generation of these rhythms at the various levels of organization mentioned above and their functional implications for cognition.

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    Speakers:


Name Title
Wed 9:00 - 9:30 John A. White   (University of Utah, UT, USA) Neuronal Synchronization near the Fluctuation-Driven Regime
Wed 9:30 - 10:00 Christoph Borgers   (Tufts University, MA, USA) Gamma-rhythmic signaling between medial prefrontal cortex and lateral septum in behaving mice
Wed 10:00 - 10:40 Break
Wed 10:40 - 11:10 Adrien Peyrache   (NYU, NY, USA) Self-organized mechanisms of the head direction sense
Wed 11:10 - 11:40 Vassilis Cutsuridis   (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece) Transition between encoding and consolidation dynamics via cholinergic modulation
Wed 11:40 - 12:10 Horacio G. Rotstein   (NJIT, NJ, USA) Inhibition-based theta resonance in a hippocampal network: a modeling study
Wed 12:10 - 1:30 Lunch Break
Wed 1:30 - 2:00 Victoria Booth   (University of Michigan, MI, USA) Neuromodulation of neuronal networks: acetylcholine and synaptic renormalization
Wed 2:00 - 2:30 Paola Malerba   (University of California at Riverside, USA) Hippocampal ripples as inhibitory transients
Wed 2:30 - 3:00 Jiannis Taxidis   (UCLA, CA, USA) Place cell sequences reflected in the LFP during hippocampal ripples: Combining modeling and data analysis
Wed 3:00 - 3:20 Break
Wed 3:20 - 4:30 Informal Discussion
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Thu 9:00 - 9:30 Roger Traub   (IBM, NY, USA) Evidence for electrical coupling between principal neurons, and its collective effects
Thu 9:30 - 10:00 Frances Skinner   (University of Toronto, ON, Canada) Translating mechanisms: in vitro rhythmic, population activities of hippocampus in normal and diseased states
Thu 10:00 - 10:40 Break
Thu 10:40 - 11:10 Jonathan E. Rubin   (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA) Synchronization hubs during gamma oscillations in cat visual cortex
Thu 11:10 - 11:40 Flavio Frohlich   (University of North Carolina, NC, USA) Individual Cortical Dynamics Predict Cognitive Enhancement by Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS)
Thu 11:40 - 12:10 Mark Kramer   (Boston University, MA, USA) Spatiotemporal dynamics and the role of fast-spiking interneurons in human seizures
Thu 12:10 Lunch Break


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Department of Mathematical Sciences(DMS).

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).


Horacio
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