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"Microglia in pain signaling" |
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Organizers: Kazuhide Inoue |
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The role of microglia and TNF-alpha in long-term potentiation at C-fiber synapses in spinal dorsal horn |
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Xian-Guo Liu |
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Role of TLR2-Nox2-ROS signaling pathways in the activation of spinal cord microglia in neuropathic pain |
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Sung Joong Lee |
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Spinal cord microglia in neuropathic pain signalling |
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Makoto Tsuda |
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"Pathology of neurotrophins: their new insights into psychiatric and neurological disorders" |
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Organizers: Masami Kojima & Bai Lu |
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Challenges of neurotrophin research in neurodegenerative diseases |
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Bai Lu |
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Regulation of neuronal survival and death by the cleaved fragments of p75 neurotrophin receptor in the context of Alzheimer's disease |
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Elizabeth J. Coulson |
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Dysfunction of neurotrophin and interneuron in the hippocampal and cortical microcircuit contributes to schizophrenia pathophysiology |
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Hyun-Soo Shawn Je |
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The BDNF pro-peptide is a novel facilitator of hippocampal LTD and the biological activity is modulated by a human BDNF polymorphism Val66Met |
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Masami Kojima |
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"Role of astrocytes in brain energy metabolism and diseases" |
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Organizers: Albert Yu |
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How does neuroglobin facilitate brain oxygenation under hypoxia? |
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Xiaoqian Chen |
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A variety of glial functions in regulation of synaptic transmission |
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Schuichi Koizumi |
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Cell death and cerebral metabolism after stroke |
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Ling Wei |
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Glycogen and Glutamatergic Neurotransmission |
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Arne Schousboe |
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“Autism spectrum disorders (ASD): from bedside to bench and bench to bedside” |
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Organizers: Makoto Sato & Norio Mori |
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A network biology approach to autism spectrum disorders (ASD) |
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Daniel Geschwind |
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Synapse maturation and autism: The role of Neuroligins and Neurexins |
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Katsuhiko Tabuchi |
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Positron Emission Tomography in Autism Spectrum Disorders |
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Norio Mori |
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Neuroimaging and Oxytocin effect in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders |
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Hirotaka Kosaka |
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Autophagy and Proteasome Cross-talkin Neuropathophysiology |
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Organizers: Philip Beart and Ciro Isidoro |
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Physiological role of autophagy and its regulatory mechanisms |
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Speaker 1: Noburo Mizushima |
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Cdk5 as a novel regulator of autophagy in neurodegenerative diseases |
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Speaker 2: Nancy Ip |
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Autophagy dysregulation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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Speaker 3: Weidong Le |
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The impact of psychiatric drugs on autophagy regulation in neuronal cells |
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Speaker 4: Ciro Isidoro |
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Dopaminergic Regulation on Drug Addiction and Neuropsychiatric disorders |
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Organizers: Ja-Hyun Baik and Joung-Hun Kim |
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Pallidal Hyperdopaminergic Innervation Induced by Neonatal Exposure To Epidermal Growth Factor; Implication in Schizophrenia |
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Speaker 1: Hiroyuki Nawa |
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Cellular Changes in Neural Circuits for Cocaine Addiction |
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Speaker 2: Joung-Hun Kim |
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PKMζ maintains drug reward, aversion and extinction memories |
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Speaker 3: Lin Lu |
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Dysregulation of Addictive Behaviors and Plasticity upon Chronic Stress in Mice lacking Dopamine D2 receptors |
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Speaker 4: Ja-Hyun Baik |
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Intracellular molecular mechanisms regulating neurogenesis and migration during cerebral cortical development |
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Organizers: Itsuki Ajioka and Takeshi Kawauchi |
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Controlling the expansion of neural stem cells by manipulation of G1 length |
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Speaker 1: Federico Calegari |
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The involvement of microtubules in neuronal polarity and migration regulation: Implications for brain development and human disease |
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Speaker 2: Orly Reiner |
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Regulatory mechanisms for multi-step neuronal migration: Roles of cell cycle-related proteins and cell adhesion molecules |
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Speaker 3: Takeshi Kawauchi |
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The role of Rb family for cell cycle exit and migration during cerebral cortical development |
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Speaker 4: Itsuki Ajioka |
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Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants in Disease Models of the Brain |
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Organizers: Samuel Chan |
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Oxidative stress-mediated central circulatory regulatory failure underlies methamphetamine-induced fatal cardiovascular collapse |
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Speaker 1: Alice Y.W. Chang |
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Mechanisms involved in activation of the sympathetic nervous system in hypertension: oxidative stress in the brainstem and hypothalamus |
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Speaker 2: Yoshitaka Hirooka |
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Mitochondrial antioxidants as new targets in protection against oxidative stress-associated neurogenic hypertension |
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Speaker 3: Julie Y.H. Chan |
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Synthesis of hydrogen sulfide in the ischemic brain |
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Speaker 4: Peter T.-H. Wong |
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Neurodegenerative diseases: molecular, diagnostic and therapeutic pathways |
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Organizers: Robert Cappai |
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Molecular pathways involved in Abeta- tau mediated neurotoxicity |
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Speaker 1: Juergen Goetz |
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Imaging of misfolded proteins involved in neurodegeneration |
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Speaker 2: Noboyuki Okamura |
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Biomarkers to assess disease progression in neurodegeneration |
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Speaker 3: Victor Villemagne |
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Disease pathways and therapeutic approaches that target the misfolded toxic species |
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Speaker 4 : Akihiko Takashima |
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Recent progress in nerve degeneration research and its therapeutic application |
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Organizers: Toshiyuki Araki and Hwan Tae Park |
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Speaker 1: Toshiyuki Araki |
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Speaker 2: Hwan Tae Park |
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Speaker 3: Shigeru Yanagi |
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Speaker 4 : Benjamin Pang-hsien |
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Molecular Basis of Schizophrenia: From the Susceptibility Genes |
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Organizers: Kozo Kaibuchi and Sang Ki Park |
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DISC1 acts as a cargo adapter for neuronal transport of specific proteins and mRNAs |
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Speaker 1: Kozo Kaibuchi |
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Novel Functions of Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 |
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Speaker 2: Sang Ki Park |
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New finding from genetic association study of schizophrenia |
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Speaker 3: Nakao Iwata |
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Dysbindin regulates the dendritic spine formation: Evidence Supporting the neurodevelopmental hypothesis |
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Speaker 4 : Koh-Ichi Nagata |
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The Neurochemistry of Stem Cell Patterning and Applications for Neural Repair |
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Organizers: Lachlan Thompson and Clare Parish |
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Intrinsic transition of embryonic stem-cell differentiation into neural progenitors: Zfp521 overexpression promotes neural induction |
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Speaker 1: Yoshiki Sasai |
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Induction and selection of iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons for an effective transplantation against Parkinson's disaease |
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Speaker 2 : Jun Takahashi |
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Transcriptional regulation of neural patterning: a role for Gli1 in neural ventralization of pluripotent stem cells against Parkinson's disaease |
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Speaker 3: Mark Denham |
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Regulating neural induction and dopaminergic differentiation of neural and pluripotent stem cells |
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Speaker 4: Clare Parish |
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