Nansen Neuroscience Lectures

Forelesningene holdes i forbindelse med Fridtjof Nansens fødselsdag. Møteleder er Linda H. Bergersen som sammen med Jon Storm-Mathisen har laget programmet.

11:00 - 11:15 Nansen Neuroscience Network - innovation 123 years after the nascence of Norwegian neuroscience (Nansen's thesis published 1887)
Jon Storm-Mathisen, Professor, Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, and Anatomy, Inst of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo; Stein Lorentzen-Lund, Project Director, Nansen Neuroscience Network

11:15 - 12:00 PET studies of oxygen delivery to brain tissue in humans in vivo: effects of aging, exertion and disease
Albert Gjedde, Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen
Short introduction by Johanne Egge Rinholm, PhD, UiO

12:00 - 12:15 Coffee, fruits, refreshments

12:15 - 13:00 Functional neuroimaging: promises and challenges - unravelling the neuroscience of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia
Kenneth Hugdahl, Professor, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen
Short introduction by Cecilie Morland, PhD student, UiO

12:00 - 13:45 How does the brain navigate in space
May-Britt Moser, Professor, The Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience & Centre for the Biology of Memory, NTNU, Trondheim
Short introduction by Lasse Ormel, PhD student, UiO

13:45 End of lectures