INVITED SPEAKERS
Plenary Lectures

Eric R. Kandel
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, USA
TITLE: The Biology of Memory and Age-Related Memory Loss

Lucio Annunziato
School of Medicine, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
TITLE: Sodium Calcium Exchanger in the Brain: A Growing Spectrum of Pathophysiological Implications

Emiliana Borrelli
University of California, Irvine
TITLE: Dopamine regulated activation of striatal circuits

Laura Cancedda
IIT Central Research Laboratories, Genoa
TITLE: Treating neurodevelopmental disorders: challenges, issues, problems, concerns, difficulties, harms, worries, doubts, but we need to start from somewhere

Eero Castrén
Neuroscience Center, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
TITLE: Neurotrophic factors and neuronal plasticity: Mechanisms and translation

Takao Hensch
Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
TITLE: Shaping Neural Circuits by Early Experience

Dimitri M. Kullmann
UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
TITLE: Seizure mechanisms and gene therapy for focal epilepsy

Adriana Maggi
Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milano, Italy
TITLE: Brain Sexual dimorphism: a question of sex or gender?

Miguel Ângelo Laporta Nicolelis
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
TITLE: Brain-machine interfaces: from basic science to neurological rehabilitation

Michal Schwartz
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
TITLE: Immunotherapy targeting the systemic immune e system to combat Alzheimer’s disease and age-related dementia