Saturday

   

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2006

SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY: A DOUBLE-SIDED SWORD?

Chairmen: C. Bervoets, C. Sindic

9.00

1. Synaptic plasticity: mechanisms and relevance for
brain disease investigated with the nicotinic receptor

J.-P. Changeux (Paris, F)

9.30

2.Synaptic plasticity and brain repair in Stroke

N. Ward (London, UK)

10.00

3.Synaptic plasticity and Pain

D. Bouhassira (Paris, F)

10.30

P.3. POSTER SESSION & coffee

Chairmen: K. Vonck, M. Ventura

11.30

Discussion of selected posters P.3

 

12.00 Multidisciplinary workshops W3.1 - W3.5  

W3.1.

The cost of brain disorders in Belgium

G. Franco, L. Schretlen

W3.2.

Restless legs: what's in the move?

M. Gonce, M. Van Zandijcke

W3.3.

Fibromyalgia: an example of central sensitisation induced by depression?

B. Vanhoudenhove

W3.4.

Drug addiction: from man to molecules, and back

S. Schiffmann, G. Dom

W3.5.

Physiology of cerebellar diseases

E. De Schutter, C. I. De Zeeuw, M. Manto

13.00

Lunch  


NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS

Chairmen: M. Pandolfo, S. Claes

14.00

1. Genes and Behaviour

D. Boomsma (Amsterdam, NL)

14.30

2.Molecular genetics of degenerative brain diseases

C. Van Broeckhoven (Antwerpen, UA)

15.00

3. Pharmacogenetics in neuropsychiatric diseases:
epilepsy as a model

C. Depondt (Bruxelles, ULB)

15.30

coffee break

 

16.00

CONTROVERSY SESSION 2: Generic drugs in neuropsychiatric disorders: too much or too few?

J.-M. Maloteaux (UCL),
Pharma.be, Ministry of Health representative

16.45

CONCLUSIONS & POSTER PRIZE DISTRIBUTION