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International Symposium(Japanese Only)
New Frontiers in Brain Sciences:
Towards Systematic Understandings of Human Brain
Tentative schedule

December 15 (Wed）　

　 18:00 Welcome party (mainly for foreign speakers)

December 16 (Thu）　

　 10:00 Registration

　 11:00 　　 　 Opening remarks: Prof Naoyuki Takahata (President of Sokendai)
　　 　 　　 　 　　Opening remarks: Prof Kazuhiro Ikenaka (Vice-Director-General of NIPS)
　　 　 　　 　 　　Welcoming address: Atsushi Nambu (Symposium Organizer)

11:15-15:15 Social and Cognitive Brain
　　 　 　　 　 Chaired by Norihiro Sadato and Shigeru Kitazawa

　 11:15 Tetsuya Iidaka (Nagoya, Japan)
　　 　 Cross-cultural imaging study of social and emotional brain

　 11:45 Molly J. Crockett (Cambridge, UK)
　　 　 Serotonin and prosocial behaviour: neural and psychological mechanisms

　 12:15 Saori C. Tanaka (Osaka, Japan)
　　 　 The sign effect of delay discounting

　 12:45 Lunch

　 13:45 Shigeru Kitazawa (Tokyo, Japan)
　　 　 Quantitative evaluation of gaze and cognition in autism

　 14:15 Masami K. Yamaguchi (Tokyo, Japan)
　　 　 Infants' brain activity in face perception

　 14:45 Hidehiko Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan)
　　 　 Molecular Imaging of emotional decision making

　 15:15 Break

15:30-17:10 Brain Circuitry −Basal Ganglia and Related Structure−
　　 　 　　 　 Chaired by Masahiko Takada and Atsushi Nambu

　 15:30 Peter L. Strick （Pittsburgh, USA）with some introduction
　　 　 The basal ganglia and cerebellum are interconnected

　 16:10 Fumino Fujiyama (Kyoto, Japan)
　　 　 Re-evaluation of network in the basal ganglia with new morphological approach

　 16:40 Eiji Hoshi (Tokyo, Japan)
　　 　 Structural and functional relationships between the basal ganglia and
　　 　 the dorsal premotor cortex in voluntary motor control

　 17:20 Poster session

　 19:00 Party

December 17 (Fri）　



9:00-12:25 Functions of the Brain −Basal Ganglia Functions−
　　 　 　　 　 Chaired by Tadashi Isa and Thomas Wichmann

　 9:00 Charles J. Wilson （San Antonio, USA）with some introduction
　　 　 Active Decorrelation Mechanisms in the Globus Pallidus

　 9:40 Tomoki Fukai (Tokyo, Japan)
　　 　 Motor information coding in the microcircuit of the rat primary motor cortex

　 10:10 Kazuto Kobayashi (Fukushima, Japan)
　　 　 Neural mechanism of basal ganglia circuit that controls acquisition
　　 　 and performance of learning

　 10:40 Break

　 10:55 Minoru Kimura (Tokyo, Japan)
　　 　 Neuronal correlates of action valuation and selection in the basal ganglia

　 11:25 Thomas Boraud （Bordeaux, France）
　　 　 Emerging properties of the cortex-basal ganglia loop.

　 11:55 Kaoru Takakusaki (Asahikawa, Japan)
　　 　 Subcortical mechanisms of controlling postural muscle tone in cats

　 12:25 Lunch

13:30-17:25 Disorders of the Brain
　　 　 　　 　 Chaired by Kaoru Takakusaki and Thomas Boraud

　 13:30 Jose A. Obeso (Pamplona, Spain) with some introduction
　　 　 Basal Ganglia Pathophysiology- Facts and Pending Issues to understand
　　 　 Movement Disorders

　 14:10 Pullanipally Shashidharan (New York, USA)
　　 　 Altered neuronal activity in basal ganglia of an animal model of dystonia

　 14:40 Atsushi Nambu (Okazaki, Japan)
　　 　 Cortico-Basal Ganglia Loop and Movement Disorders

　 15:10 Thomas Wichmann (Atlanta, USA)
　　 　 Effects of high-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus in normal and
　　 　 parkinsonian monkeys

　 15:40 Break

　 15:55 Masahiko Takada (Inuyama, Japan)
　　 　 Gene delivery to primate brain with recombinant viral vectors:
　　 　 Development of novel models for brain research

　 16:25 Tadashi Isa (Okazaki, Japan)
　　 　 Reorganization of cortical and subcortical networks during the functional recovery
　　 　 after the spinal cord injury in macaque monkeys

　 16:55 Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos (Chicago, USA)
　　 　 Exploiting vision and proprioception to augment a cortically-controlled
　　 　 brain machine interface

　 17:25 Short tour of NIPS and NIBB

　 19:00 Conference dinner (for speakers)

December 18 (Sat）　



9:00-12:00 Neuroethics
　　 　 　　 　 Chaired by Osamu Sakura and Tatsuya Mima

　 9:00 Patricia S. Churchland (San Diego, USA)
　　 　 How the Mind Makes Morals

　 9:40 Yukihiro Nobuhara (Tokyo, Japan)
　　 　 Some problems with understanding the mind from the brain

　 10:10 Tatsuya Mima (Kyoto, Japan)
　　 　 “Japanese brain” and its Metaphors after the Asia-Pacific War:
　　 　 A Neuro-studies Approach

　 10:40 Break

　 10:55 Mitsuo Kawato (Kyoto, Japan)
　　 　 Four Principles of Neuroethics for Brain Machine Interface

　 11:25 Osamu Sakura (Tokyo, Japan)
　　 　 Neuroscience in society: pure, pop, pseudo, and party-talk sciences

　 11:55 Concluding remarks

　 12:00 End

13:00- Excursion around Okazaki (for foreign speakers)