BRAIN CIRCUITS SYMPOSIUM
October 27-28, 2011

Nobel Forum
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

How can we best understand brain function?
The study of brain circuits with advanced neuroscience technologies opens up for a functional description of the brain and how circuits generate behavior.

The “Brain Circuits” symposium brings together world-leading experts in the field of circuit neuroscience in order to address the most recent advances in the field and how we can tackle brain function in the future.

The study of brain circuits can revolutionize our understanding of brain function, as well as identify the dysfunctions underlying neuropsychiatric disorders. The speakers will cover a wide range of technological approaches for the dissection of brain circuits and expand on the conceptual aspects of circuit function. The symposium is organized in order to allow for interactions and discussions and will promote the integration of young scientists in the process.

Some of the topics that will be covered:
· Hippocampal circuits and cognitive processes
· GABAergic interneurons and circuit function
· Optogenetics and circuit dissection
· Manipulation of circuits and animal behavior
· Genetic and viral approaches to circuit mapping
· Animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders

Confirmed speakers

György Buzsáki
(Rutgers, USA)

Ed Callaway
(Salk Inst., USA)

Michael Hausser
(UCL, England)

Thomas Klausberger
(MedUni Vienna, Austria)

Christopher Moore
(Brown University, USA)


May-Britt Moser
(NTNU, Norway)

Carl Petersen
(EPFL, Switzerland)

Erin Schuman
(Max Planck Inst., Germany)

Matthew Wilson
(MIT, USA)

and speakers from Karolinska Institutet



Funded by KI Neuroscience Network and organized by
K. Meletis, M. Carlén, P. Krieger, G. Silberberg