Monte Verità Conference Centre, Ascona, Switzerland
We are pleased to invite you to the International Conference on Brain Dynamics and Decision Making, to be held in Ascona, Switzerland from May 27th to 31st, 2012.
The overarching subject of the conference is “decision making” and how it is achieved through and influenced by mechanisms on various levels in the brain. More than 20 invited leading scientists in the field will present their recent work. The conference will be orientated towards five main topics: i) novel in vivo tools for studies in behaving rodents, ii) bridging rodent and human studies, iii) role of uncertainty and risk, iv) linking theoretical concepts at cellular and brain area levels and v) Molecular and circuit dysfunction in addiction. Moreover, there will be short talks as well as poster sessions selected from the registered young scientists.
The conference is organized by several members of NEUROCHOICE, a collaborative project funded by the Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology called SystemsX.ch (www.systemsx.ch). NEUROCHOICE’s research topic is ‘Neural Correlated of Collective Decision Making‘. With the NEUROCHOICE principal investigators as hosts we will bring together leading international scientists from diverse disciplines such as molecular and cellular neurobiology, theoretical neuroscience and neuroeconomics, to provide a forum for discussion on brain dynamics during decision making across the various scales.
Please refer to the Conference website for further information:
http://www.hifo.uzh.ch/events/upcoming/braindynamics-ascona12.html
We look forward to welcoming you in Ascona!
The Organizers
Prof. Fritjof Helmchen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Walter Senn, University of Bern, Switzerland