Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University BRAIN Institute, Università di Trieste
Rehabilitation Hospital, Auxilium Vitae Volterra
Tuesday, 11 March 2008

09:00 Welcome and Registration.
(The registration desk will also be opened on Monday, 10th of March, from 16:00 to 19:00.)

10:00
  Opening cerimony.  

10:20
  P.P. Battaglini:  Von Economo, the cerebral cortex and more.
(Professor, Director of the Department of Physiology and Pathology, University of Trieste. Director of the PhD School in Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Trieste - Italy.)

11:00
  Gabriella and Elena ECONOMO:  Remembering Uncle Costantino.

11:30
  L.C. Triarhou:  The revival of the Economo and Koskinas atlas of "Cytoarchitectonics of the Adult Human Cerebral Cortex": historical and conceptual context.
(Professor, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki - Greece.)

12:15 Cocktail.

13:15 Lunch.

15:00
  G. Luppino:  A multimodal architectonic approach for the identification of functionally and connectionally distinct areas of the macaque ventral postarcuate and prearcuate cortex.
(Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology Unit, University of Parma - Italy.)

15:50
  R. J. Morecraft:  Connectional correlates of cytoarchitectonic differentiation in the insulofrontal and cingulofrontal fields of the rhesus monkey.
(Professor, Director, Laboratory of Neurological Sciences, Director, Medical and Allied Health Gross Anatomy; Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota - USA.)

16.40 Coffee Break.

17:20
  M. Petrides:  Prefrontal cortex: cytoarchitecture and hodology.
(Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, Director, Neuropsychology/Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital, Montreal, Quebec - Canada.)

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

09:00
  R. Insausti:  Neuroanatomy of the medial temporal lobe in the human brain: relevance to memory function.
(Professor, Neuroanatomy Laboratory, School of Medicine, Department of Health Sciences and CRIB University of Castilla-La Mancha - Spain.)

09:50
  K. Amunts:  Cytoarchitecture and intersubject variability of the human cerebral cortex.
(Professor, Institute of Neuroscience and Biophysics INB-3, Research Centre Jülich, and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen - Germany.)

10:40 Coffee break.

11:20
  K. Zilles:  Transmitter receptor architectonics of the human cerebral cortex.
(Professor, Director of Institute of Neuroscience and Biophysics INB-3, Research Centre Jülich, and C. and O. Vogt-Institute of Brain Research, University Düsseldorf - Germany.)

12:10
  J.H. Kaas:  What comparative studies of cortical architecture tell us about the evolution of human cerebral cortex.
(Professor; Vanderbilt University, Psychology Department, Nashville, Tennessee - USA.)

13:00 Lunch.

15:00
  G. Paxinos:  A new way of viewing subcortical brain organization and function.
(Professor, NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney - Australia.)

15:50
  A.C. Evans:  Cortical growth and degeneration assessed by MRI.
(Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital, Montreal, Quebec - Canada.)

16:40 Concluding remarks Acknowledgments.


 
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