Second Workshop on Prefrontal Cortex: Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions

The prefrontal cortex is the brain structure most centrally involved in the organization of behavior and higher cognitive functions, such as decision making and working memory, and malfunctioning of this area has been linked to various psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia. In recent years it became increasingly clear that many of these functions depend crucially on tight interactions between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus, another brain region central for memory functions and representation of context. In fact, specifically this interaction seems to be disrupted in schizophrenic patients. This workshop follows up on a workshop on prefrontal cortex held in 2010 in Whistler, Canada. It brings together leading international experts on prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, mainly from the fields of in-vivo electrophysiology and theoretical/ computational neuroscience, to discuss the current state of the field, identify key research questions, and promote the tight integration of experimental and theoretical approaches within this field of neuroscience. The workshop is organized by the Bernstein-Center of Computational Neuroscience Heidelberg-Mannheim and will be open to participants from the BMBF-funded National Network Computational Neuroscience, in addition to a number of invited international speakers.

Kontakt :
Simone Seeger
Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit
J 5, 68159 Mannheim
Tel: +49 (0) 621 1703-1326
E-Mail: simone.seeger@zi-mannheim.de

 

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