Future of Neuroscience Conference
The topic for this event at the 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto will be Frontiers in Neuroimaging: Coming Soon to a Scanner Near You. A tentative schedule for the 2010 Future of Neuroscience Conference (Friday, April 16) is as follows:
Future of Neuroscience Conference: Frontiers In Neuroimaging: Coming Soon to a Scanner Near You!
| 9:00–9:20 a.m. | Brief History of Neuroimaging in Neurology
Walter Koroshetz, MD, NINDS |
| 9:20–9:55 a.m. | "Imaging White Matter Connections: A Transforming MRI Technology"
Jeremy Schmahmann, MD, FAAN, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 9:55–10:30 a.m. | "High Field Strength Structural MRI: What Becomes Visible With Increasing Teslas"
Jeff Duyn, PhD, NIH/NINDS |
| 10:30–11:05 a.m. | "Imaging Brain Networks: Merging Structural and Functional MRI"
Michael Greicius, MD, MPH, Stanford University |
| 11:05–11:25 a.m. | Break and Posters |
| 11:25AM –12:00 p.m. | "Quantitative Imaging as a Marker of Diagnosis and Progression of
Neurodegenerative Diseases"
Bradford Dickerson, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 12:00–12:30 p.m. | Abstract Presentations TBD |
| 12:30–1:30 p.m. | Luncheon |
| 1:30–2:05 p.m. | "Functional Imaging of Targets in Psychiatric Disease"
Helen Mayberg, MD, Emory University |
| 2:05–2:40 p.m. | "Quantitative Perfusion Imaging in Acute Stroke: Treatment Decisions
Based on Imaging"
Ting–Yim Lee, PhD, FCCp.m., University of Western Ontario |
| 2:40–3:10 p.m. | Abstract Presentations TBD |
| 3:10–3:30 p.m. | Break and Posters |
| 3:30–4:05 p.m. | "MRI Focused Ultrasound: Turning Deep Brain Structures On and Off"
Ferenc Jolesz, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| 4:05–4:40 p.m. | "The New PET: Imaging Molecular Targets in Neurological Disease"
Peter Herscovitch, MD, NIH Clinical Center |
| 4:40–5:00 p.m. | Questions and Answers
Richard King, MD, PhD, University of Utah |