5thInternational fMRI meeting and Autumn School

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
Meeting President
Prof. Raffaele Elefante
Chairman
Prof. Sossio Cirillo
Co-ordinator
Prof. Francesco Di Salle
Scientific Committee
A. Aragri, F. Caranci, E. Castellano, T. Cervone,
A. d’Amico, T. D’Auria, A. Elefante,
F. Esposito, L. Labruna, F. Tortora, A. Volpe
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Via S. Pansini, 5 - 80131 Napoli
e-mail: [email protected]
Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli
Università degli Studi di Pisa
Official Language
The official language will be English.
No simultaneous translation will be provided.
Certificate of Attendance
The certificate of attendance will be given to all registered
participants upon presentation of their badge at the
Secretariat Desk.
Technical Equipment
Power Point projection will be available in all sessions.
Speakers should hand their CD or floppy disk 30 min.
before their Session.
Organizing Secretariat
G.P. Pubbliche Relazioni s.r.l.
Via San Pasquale a Chiaia 55 - 80121 Napoli
Tel.: +39 081 401201 - 081 411450
Fax: +39 081 404036
E-mail: [email protected]
For further information on Brain Voyager Course see
www.brainvoyager.com
GENERAL INFORMATION
Congress Venue
Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria ****
Piazza Tasso, 34 Sorrento (Naples) - Italy
Registration Fee
Regular Fee
700.00 + VAT 20% 140.00 = 840.00
The fee includes:
• Attendance to the 5th International fMRI Meeting and Brain
Voyager Course
• Hotel acccomodation (Friday and Saturday nights at the
Imperial Hotel Tramontano****)
• Friday and Saturday lunches and dinners
• Coffee breaks
• Certificate of attendance
PhD Students (Dottorandi)
280.00 + VAT 20% 56.00 = 336.00
The fee includes:
• Attendance to the 5th International fMRI Meeting and Brain
Voyager Course
• Friday and Saturday lunches
• Coffee breaks
• Certificate of attendance
Training Physicians (Specializzandi)
150,00 + VAT 20% 30,00 = 180,00
The fee includes:
• Attendance to the 5th International fMRI Meeting and Brain
Voyager Course
• Friday and Saturday lunches
• Coffee breaks
• Certificate of attendance
For hotel accomodation see
www.holidaycityeurope.com/sorrentohotels
or contact the Organizing Secretariat
Accompanying persons
450.00 + VAT 20% 90.00 = 540.00
The fee includes:
• Hotel acccomodation (Friday and Saturday nights at the
Imperial Hotel Tramontano****)
• Friday and Saturday lunches and dinners
Hotel Accomodation
Imperial Hotel Tramontano****
single room: 120,00 per night (including VAT)
double room: 160,00 per night (including VAT)
ECM (only for Italian participants)
Si fa presente che sono stati attribuiti n. 22 Crediti Formativi
per Neuroradiologi, Neurologi e Psichiatri.
N. di rif.: 945-215877
A.I.N.R.
Associazione Italiana di Neuroradiologia
5
th
International
fMRI meeting
and
Autumn School
November
18-20, 2005
Brain
Voyager Course
November
20-21, 2005
Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria
Sorrento (Naples) Italy
5th International fMRI meeting and Autumn School - Brain Voyager Course
Friday, November 18
14.15 - 14.30
10.45 - 11.30
fMRI: physics, physiology and technology
Chairman: Hans Hacker
14.30 - 15.30
The new frontiers of functional MRI
Rainer Goebel
15.30 - 15.45
Coffee break
15.45 - 16.15
The biochemistry of neurotransmitters study
by Ultra-high field MRS
Silvia Mangia
16.15 - 17.15
Relation between BOLD and neural activity
Ralf Galuske
17.15 - 18.15
On the interpretation of fMRI data beyond
conventional maps
Elia Formisano
18.15 - 19.30
Session 2
8.30 - 9.30
9.30 - 10.30
10.30 - 10.45
11.30 - 12.15
12.15 - 13.30
fMRI: data acquisition and analysis
Chairman: Bruno Maraviglia
New frontiers of fMRI data acquisition and
analysis
Chairman: Elia Formisano
fMRI “brain reading”
Robert Savoy
Distributed representations investigated with
fMRI
James Haxby
Indipendent Component Analysis: new
developments and fMRI applications
Fabrizio Esposito
Session 4
14.15 - 16.15
fMRI: neurophysiological and cognitive
applications
Chairman: David Linden
14.15 - 15.15
Combination DTI/fMRI
Dae-Shik Kim
15.15 - 16.15
Combination EEG and fMRI
Mark Cohen
16.15 - 16.30
Coffee break
Discussion / Poster Session
Saturday, November 19
8.30 - 10.30
10.45 - 13.30
Welcome from the A. I. N. R. President
Ugo Salvolini
Session 1
14.30 - 19.30
Session 3
Session 6
8.15 - 11.15
Applications
Chairman: Pietro Pietrini
8.15 - 9.00
fMRI in neurophysiology
Fausta Lui
9.00 - 9.45
fMRI of emotions and behaviour
Pietro Pietrini
9.45 - 10.30
fMRI in neuropsychology
Luigi Trojano
10.30 - 11.15
Clinical applications of fMRI
David Linden
11.15 - 13.15
Brain Voyager Course 1
Rainer Goebel
Elia Formisano
Fabrizio Esposito
14.15 - 18.15
Brain Voyager Course 2
Rainer Goebel
Elia Formisano
Fabrizio Esposito
Monday, November 21
Session 5
16.30 - 19.30
Brain functions - new results
Chairman: Rainer Goebel
16.30 - 17.15
fMRI exploration of vision: retinotopy maps
and visual areas
Lars Muckli
How to develop a new sequence: a worked
example
Michela Tosetti
17.15 - 18.00
Ultra-high field fMRI
Pierre Francoise Van de Morteele
fMRI exploration of the auditory system
Francesco Di Salle
18.00 - 18.45
Language and fMRI
Bernadette Jansma
18.45 - 19.30
Discussion / Poster Session
Coffee break
Sunday, November 20
8.30 - 13.15
Brain Voyager Course 3
Rainer Goebel
Elia Formisano
Fabrizio Esposito
14.15 - 18.30
Brain Voyager Course 4
Rainer Goebel
Elia Formisano
Fabrizio Esposito
We inform all participants that the Annual Italian Meeting
on Advanced MR Methods will not be held this year.
The 3rd Italian Meeting will take place with a more comprehensive scientific and social program in November, 2006