INVITATION

The Fifth Conference of Lithuanian Neuroscience Association

6 – 7 December 2013

National Open Access Scholarly Communication and Information Center (MKIC), Saulėtekio street 5, Vilnius

PROGRAM

6 December 2013

9.30 - 10.00 Registration. Coffee/Tea.

10.00 - 10.10 Opening. President of LNA O. Rukšėnas

10.10 - 11.10  Plenary lecture. J. Nicholls. Properties and Functions of Glial Cells.

I session  Nervous system and gender (Chair - O. Rukšėnas)

11.10 - 11.50  Invited lecture R. Agabio, A. Preti, G. L.Gessa, F. Franconi. Gender Differences in Pharmacological Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders (AUDS).

11.50 – 12.10 R. Grikšienė, M. Baranauskas, I. Griškova-Bulanova, D. Noreika. Effect of sex and phase of menstrual cycle on subjective, behavioral and physiological measures of mental workload.

12.10 - 12.30 L. Jarutytė, L. Mačiukaitė, O. Rukšėnas. Sex Differences in the Response to Affective Stimuli.

12.30 - 12.50  A. Pleskačiauskas, I. Griškova-Bulanova, O. Rukšėnas. Sex differences in eye movements.

12.50 - 13.50 Lunch. 13.50 -14.10 Coffee/Tea.

II session Pathology of nervous system (Chair - I. Griškova-Bulanova)

14.10 – 14.50 Invited lecture S.M.H. Arnfred. Proprioreception and somatosensory processing in schizophrenia.

14.50 - 15.10 V. Borutaitė, A. Žvirblienė, I. Dalgedienė, S. Jankevičiūtė, P. Čižas, R. Morkūnienė. How Microglia Kill Neurons: Involvement of Multimeric Antibodies-Antigens Complexes.

15.10 - 15.30 O. Arandarčikaitė, V. Borutaitė. The Protective Effect of NO Against Ischemia Induced Injury to Brain Mitochondria.

15.30 - 15.50 V. Valiulis, K. Dapšys, G. Gerulskis, A. Šiurkutė, V. Mačiulis. The Use of P300 Potential as a Treatment Efficacy Marker in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy.

15.50 – 17.00  Poster session

17.00 - 19.00 Cheese & wine

7 December 2013

8.45 – 9.00 Coffee/Tea.

III session Neurophysiology (Chair - A. Alaburda)

9.00 - 9.40  Invited Lecture L. Busse. Contextual influences on information processing in the mouse visual system.

9.40 – 10.00  R. Grigonis, R. Buišas, R. Guzulaitis, A. Alaburda. The Influence of Increased Membrane Conductance on the Excitability of Spinal Motoneurons.

10.00 – 10.20  M. Rassomagina, V. Kravchenko, M. Makarchuk. Electrophysiological Correlates of Verbal Stimuli Analysis During their Monocular Perception Through Dominant and Non-Dominant Eye in Emotional Stroop-Test.

10.20 – 10.40  E. Pipinis, K. Dapšys. rTMS Therapy Effect on Brain Response to Flickering Light Stimulation Evaluated by EEG.

10.40 – 11.10 Coffee/Tea.

IV session Neuromodelling (Chair – A. Saudargienė)

11.10 – 11.50  Invited Lecture M. L. Linne. Computational Modelling of Astrocyte-Neuron Interactions in the Brain.

11.50 – 12.10 A. Roth. Untangling Cerebellar Circuits with Scanning Electron Microscopy and Focused Ion Beam Milling.

12.10 – 12.30 A. Bulatov, L. Mickienė, N. Bulatova, A. Gutauskas, J. Loginovič_. Additional Müller-Lyer Wings in the Brentano Illusion.

12.30 – 12.50  D. Matuzevičius, H. Vaitkevičius. Binocular Model of Visual Space.

12.50 – 13.00 Awards. Closing remarks.

13.00 – 13.20 Coffee/Tea