Neuro-vascular coupling and brain energy budget

Chairman: Horwitz B.

The physiological basis of neuro-vascular coupling. The vascular triggers (i.e. nitric-oxide vs. cholinergic fibers) - The energy supply for inhibitory synaptic mechanisms. The oxidative glucose/lactate vs. the glycolysis for neurotransmitter reuptake

Speaker : Kim DS, Attwell D, Mayhew J., and Riera J.

Brain oscillations and perturbed states

Chairman: Ioannides AA

Connectivity graphs for oscillations. The role that inhibitory mechanisms play in synchronizing/desynchronizing neural masses - The evoked event vs. the perturbed ongoing dynamic hypotheses. Phase/time locked events, single trials variability and resting states

Speaker : Makeig S., Bertrand O., Sporns O., and Durka PJ.

Multiscale interactions and neuronal mass modeling

Chairman: Viktor J.

Coupled nonlinear neuronal masses with delays. Competition vs. cooperation - Multiscale interactions. From synapses to neuronal networks

Speaker : Breakspear M., Kawato M., Buzsaki G., and Deco G.

Statistics and geometry of neuronal connections

Chairman: Traub RD.

The statistics cortical connections: long-range axonal connections and micro-circuits - The mini-architecture of the cerebral cortex. The on-board micro-circuitry, dendritic growth, trees bifurcations and plasticity

Speaker : Van Essen D. W, Kötter R., Rockland KS., and Markram H.

Nonlinear dynamics in mixed inverse problems

Chairman: Worsley K.

The inverse problem for data fusion. The mammoth time-space autoregression problem: the use of sparseness, clusters and ROI hypothesis. Exploring causality and self-dynamics robustly: the concept of innovations for model fitting in time series analysis and the AIC - Parametric models, inference and statistics tests. Introducing neuronal models to account for large-scaled brain causal relationships in electrophysiological, vascular, and metabolic signals

Speaker : Friston KJ., Valdés P.A., McIntosh AR., and Ozaki T.