PROGRAM (Abstract book)

9.15 - 10.00 Registration.

10.00 - 10.10 Opening. President of LNA O. Rukšėnas

I session (Chair – Kastytis Dapšys)

10.10 - 10.40 Healthy ageing and Alzheimer's disease: neurobiological and cognitive differences and connections Gintaras Kaubrys, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

10.40 - 11.10 Healthy ageing: a holistic approach Vidmantas Alekna, Asta Mastavičiūtė, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

11.10-11.30 Coffee break

11.30 – 12.00 The neuromorphic challenge: theory, circuits and applications Mihai Petrovici,

Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany, The Human Brain Project

12.00 - 12.30 Ageing and mitochondrial sensitivity to ischaemia Vilmantė Borutaitė, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

12.30 - 13.00 Trajectories of cognitive aging: findings from adult cognition studies Olga Zamalijeva, Vytautas Jurkuvėnas, Sigita Girdzijauskienė, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch. Coffee/Tea.

14.00 - 15. 30 Poster session.

II session (Chair – Gytis Svirskis)

15.30 – 16.30 Plenary lecture. Epigenetics of mental disorders Artūras Petronis, The Campbell family Mental Health Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

16.30 - 17.00 Wearing my virtual body: behavioral, physiological and neural reactivity to the physical appearance and to the actions of an embodied avatar Gaetano Tieri, Social and Cognitive Neurosciences Laboratory, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy, Department of Psychology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

17. 00 Concluding remarks. Awards.

17.20 - 19.00 Party.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Conference language – English

Awards – prizes for three best poster presentations – books: Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition, 2013, Eric R. Kandel et al.; Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 4^th Edition, 2015, by Mark F. Bear,    Barry W. Connors,    Michael A. Paradiso

Some photos from the conference in the Lithuanian page