Neuropsychology meetings & conferences

2012 Meeting of the International Society of Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders

The 2012 meeting of the International Society of Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders (ISHCSF) will be held in Kyoto, Japan from October 19 to 22, 2012 (Hydrocephalus 2012, Kyoto).

This meeting will present the latest advances in the clinical care of and research in hydrocephalus and CSF disorders. Through this meeting, we expect to accomplish the ISHCSF mission of pursuing both clinical and basic research of CSF circulation and its related disorders and thereby promoting the best possible care for patients with these disorders.

There has been nearly a hundred-year of CSF research history since the pioneering work of Harvey Cushing. Research has produced many achievements in this field, but unsolved problems remain and challenge us to take the next step toward solving them.

Of course, another purpose of this meeting is to give all participants the opportunity to communicate, discuss freely, and share their recent progress in this field. We warmly welcome all participants and their families from all over the world.

Topics

Definition, Classification
Symptoms and assessment measures
Epidemiology
Neuropathology
Neuropsychology & neuropsychiatry
Adult hydrocephalus
Normal pressure hydrocephalus
Neurodegeneration
Comorbidity
Pediatric hydrocephalus
Developmental problems
CSF-related disorders
Intracranial hypertension
Clinical Trials, Guidelines
Experimental hydrocephalus
CSF physiology
CSF biomarker
Neuroimaging
ICP monitoring, CSF pulsation, Ro
Neuroendoscopy
Shunt devices
Shunt complications
Outcome, Outcome measures
Education, Social aspects
Rehabilitation
Non-surgical treatment
Miscellaneous

Inquiry for Scientific Program
Secretariat:
c/o Department of Neurosurgery, Shiga University of Medical Science
Address: Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga 520-2192, JAPAN
E-mail: ishcsf-secretary@umin.ac.jp
Phone: +81-77-548-2257 Fax: +81-77-548-2531

Inquiry for General Information
Management Secretariat:
c/o Congress Corporation
3-6-13 Awajimachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 541-0047, JAPAN
E-mail: ishcsf@congre.co.jp
Phone: +81-6-6229-2555 Fax: +81-6-6229-2556

Brain Matters 3: Values at the Crossroads of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Psychology

October 24-25, 2012 Cleveland, Ohio

Abstracts are now being accepted for Brain Matters 3: Values at the Crossroads of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychology on October 24th-25th, 2012, a conference hosted by the Cleveland Clinic NeuroEthics Program.

Symposium Organizers: Paul J Ford, PhD & Imad Najm, MD, PhD

Brain Matters 3 follows in the tradition of the two previous Brain Matters conferences in fostering further development in the field of NeuroEthics.

Conference Plenary Topics:

-- Patients’ Perspectives on Medically Unexplained Symptoms
-- Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Biological and Cultural
-- Non-Epileptic Seizures, Communication, and Ethics
--Are we assuming the results in biological causation of involuntary movements? (TMS/PET/MRI)
--Ethical Challenges in PTSD and TBI in the military context
--Cross-Cultural Understandings of Seizures

Please contact Paul Ford, PhD at fordp@ccf.org for more information

2012 Joint Annual Meeting: Electroencephalography and Clinical Neuroscience Society, International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography, International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry & Evoke Potential International Conference

September 12-16, 2012 Bristol Regional Medical Center Bristol, Tennessee, USA

Preliminary Program:

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Traumatic Brain Injury
Brain-Computer Interface

For more information, contact the society:

Phone: 888-531-5335
E-mail: sellers@etsu.edu

Who Should Attend?

The Annual Meetings target clinicians and researchers with interest in neurobehavioral disoorders. This includes neuroscientists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, Biomedical and Electrical engineers.

American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Annual Conference & Workshops on Excellence in Clinical Practice

June 20-23, 2012 Seattle, Washington

Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health 2012 National Conference

“Creating a Culture of Healthy Sexuality: Shaping the Future”

Featuring a Track on Diagnosing and Treating Women and Sex Addiction

September 19-22, 2012 San Antonio, Texas

NeuroCultures - NeuroGenderings II

In co-operation with the network NeuroGenderings, the Gender Research Office at the University of Vienna, will launch a three-day international, interdisciplinary conference entitled "NeuroCultures – NeuroGenderings II" 13 - 15 September 2012 at the University of Vienna.

The aim of the conference "NeuroCultures – NeuroGenderings II" is to improve reflective scientific approaches concerned with sex/gender and the brain, and to gain particular insight into the transformation or persistence of gendered norms and values that accompany the mutual entanglements between brain research, various disciplines and public discourse.

With the expansion of the domains of neuroscientific knowledge, today we are witnessing an abundance of emerging neurocultures (such as neuropedagogy, neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neurotheology, neuroaesthetics, among others) in which bio-socio-cultural relations are (re-) negotiated within research, neuro-(technological)applications, and public discourses.

We use the notion of the "cerebral subject" – the cultural figure of the human according to which all we need to be ourselves is our brains (Ortega & Vidal 2007) – to describe how thought, behaviour, subjectivity and identity are collapsed with the brain’s biology in these neurocultural fields. The cerebral subject is a specific kind of subject; the brain vocabulary produces a culturally and historically specific version of the human and, as such, impacts individual, social, cultural and political spheres.

Gender aspects have to be seriously taken into account within these endeavours on various levels: their empirical significance, the close entanglement of neuroscientific research with society, the impacts of neurofacts and neurotechnologies (in the broadest sense) on socio-cultural gender symbolisms and gendered power relations. Additionally, the hybrid conceptions of neurocultures have to be questioned in terms of their potentials for disrupting nature-culture dichotomies on both material and epistemological levels.

Contact
Conference Board:

Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Sigrid Schmitz (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology / Scientific Head of the Gender Research Office, University of Vienna)

Organisation:

Grit Höppner, MA (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna)

Mag.a Katrin Lasthofer (Gender Research Office, University of Viennna)

From Addiction to Relationships: Neuropsychoanalytic Perspectives on Craving, Caring and Clinging

14-16 June 2012, Athens, Greece

Educational Day: Thursday 14 June
Congress: Late Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 June

Do the brain mechanisms of addiction hijack those for love and sexual desire? How else do social bonds develop in the brain? This international congress brings together leading neuroscientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to consider the links between addiction and dependency on the one hand, and love and empathy on the other. These links will be explored from multiple viewpoints: neurochemistry, brain imaging, developmental psychology and cross-species comparisons, as well as the first-person perspective of psychoanalysis.

The format of the congress will include keynote presentations from internationally renowned experts as well as panel discussions, focused symposia and interactive debates.

TRANSLATION
There will be simultaneous translation in English/Greek.
 

Persons and their Brains

“Persons and their Brains” Conference 11-14 July 2012 St Anne’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom

It is now over 20 years since Churchland’s book Neurophilosophy was published, and in its wake whole disciplines have sprung into being, proudly sporting the prefix ‘neuro-’ by way of attaching themselves to Churchland’s banner. We have entered a new period in which philosophy, among a substantial community of its practitioners, might be seen as the handmaiden of neuroscience, whose role is to remove the obstacles that have been laid in the path of scientific advance by popular prejudice and superstitious ways of thinking. Brain imaging techniques, which enable us to allocate mental functions to precise cortical areas, and in some cases to establish the neural pathways through which information is processed and decisions formed, have cast doubt on the reality of human freedom, have revised the description of reason and its place in human nature, and caused many people to suspect the validity of the old distinctions of kind, which separated person from animal, animal from machine and the free agent from the conditioned organism. In addition, the more we learn about the brain and its functions, the more do people wonder whether our old ways of managing our lives and resolving our conflicts – the ways of moral judgment, legal process and the imparting of virtue – are the best ways, and whether there might be more direct forms of intervention that would take us more speedily, more reliably and perhaps more kindly to the right result.

These developments appear to sit uneasily with the traditional concept of the person, a central concern of philosophy since at least the early Middle Ages. From infancy each of us singles out persons from the rest of our environment as recipients of love, affection, anger and forgiveness. We face them eye-to-eye and I- to-Thou, believing each person to be a centre of self-conscious reflection who responds to reasons, who makes decisions, and whose life forms a continuous narrative in which individual identity is maintained from moment to moment and from year to year. Are we then justified in treating the traditional attributes of persons, such as self-identity, thought, free will and consciousness, simply as “folk psychological” concepts to be revised in a physically reductionistic manner, or can developments in neuroscience be interpreted within alternative philosophical frameworks? Furthermore, what are the broader implications for new first, second and third-personal understanding in moral judgment, in the law, in religion, politics and the arts?

The purpose of this conference is to discuss and debate these developments from a variety of perspectives, to examine the relevance of neuroscience both to philosophy and to the other humanities of the post-Enlightenment university, and to confront the intellectual issues that surround the emergence of what might reasonably be called a ‘neuroculture’.

2012 NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference

The conference will be held from June 14-15, 2012 at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Woudestein Campus, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands).

Conference co-chairs are Ale Smidts, Professor of Marketing Research at the Rotterdam School of Management and Alan Sanfey, Principal Investigator in Decision Neuroscience at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen.

The conference theme of 2012 is: “Integrating Neuroscience with Research in Economics, Management, and Marketing”

Topics may include (but are not restricted to):

• Application of concepts and methods from neuroscience and/or psychology in solving economic and management/marketing problems (e.g., consumer decision-making, behavioral finance, organizational science, management, and decision science)
• Analysis of interpersonal behavior (e.g., relationships between customer-supplier, supervisor-subordinate, and/or investor-firm) with the means of neuroscience and/or psychology
• Discussion of ethical and legal issues at the interface of psychology, neuroscience, and business and economics research
• Evaluation of the state of the field of research in neuroeconomics/decision neuroscience/consumer neuroscience
• Presentation of state-of-the-art techniques for investigating neuroeconomic problems (e.g., fMRI, DTI, EEG/ERP, SCR)

The conference language will be English.

Pre-Conference
A pre-conference on ‘Advances in Neuroscientific Methods’ will be held on June 14, 2012 (attendance is free for conference participants). This tutorial will offer lectures on fMRI, genetics, endocrinology, and TMS by leading researchers from the Donders Institute.

CogSci 2012--the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

CogSci 2012 is the 34th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Sapporo, Japan, Wednesday, August 1 - Saturday August 4, 2012.