NIPS International Workshop and Satellite Symposium of Neuroscience2014
A Quarter Century after the Direct and
Indirect Pathways Model of the Basal
Ganglia and Beyond.
About a quarter-century ago, the direct and indirect pathways model of the basal ganglia was proposed, and has been a standard model explaining the functions and dysfunctions of the basal ganglia.
In spite of a lot of criticism on this model, we cannot find an alternative model, and this model is still useful.
In this symposium, we would like to review the past quarter century and update the perspective of the basal ganglia research for the coming quarter century.
Conference Room, 1st floor National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS, Myodaiji), Okazaki, Japan
Message from Organizer
Thank you for participating in the Basal Ganglia symposium in Okazaki.
Here are photos during the symposium.
Program
Online Registration Open till September 1st, 2014
September 8th (Monday), 2014 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Speakers:
Henrik Jörntell (Lund University, Sweden)
Tadashi Isa (NIPS, Okazaki)
Wim Vanduffel (Leuven Katholic University, Belgium)
Koichi Nakamura (Kyoto University, Kyoto)
Fuyuki Karube (Doshisha University, Kyoto)
Satomi Chiken (NIPS, Okazaki)
Yoshikazu Isomura (Tamagawa University, Tokyo)
Eiji Hoshi (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Medical Science, Tokyo)
Javier Baladron Pezoa (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Henning Schroll (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Olivier Darbin (South Alabama University, USA)
Kenji Morita (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Organizer
Fumino Fujiyama (Doshisha University, Kyoto)
Tadashi Isa (NIPS, Okazaki)
Atsushi Nambu (NIPS, Okazaki)
Fore more information:
E-mail: BG2014@nips.ac.jp
This symposium is also supported by Strategic Japanese-German Cooperative Programme,
Comprehensive Brain Science Network and DAAD-JSPS Bilateral Scientist Exchange Program.
A quarter century after the direct and indirect pathways model of the basal ganglia and beyond.
(tentative schedule)
Program
September 8th (Monday), 2014
Conference Room, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
Opening remarks and introduction 9:00-9:10
Fumino Fujiyama (Doshisha University, Kyoto)
1. Interacting basal ganglia- connections with other brain regions 9:10-10:55
Interactions between the cerebellum and basal ganglia
Henrik Jörntell (Lund University, Sweden)
Associative learning with blindsight
Tadashi Isa (NIPS, Okazaki)
Rewards, midbrain and visual cortex
Wim Vanduffel (Leuven Katholic University, Belgium)
Coffee Break 15min
2. Integrating basal ganglia: basal ganglia physiology and pathophysiology: 1st part 11:10-11:45
The micro-circuitry of the basal ganglia in relation to cortical innervation
Fuyuki Karube (Doshisha University, Kyoto)
1-min Short Talk by Poster Presenters 11:45-12:15
Group Photo
Poster Session with Lunch at Seminar Room A, B 12:15-13:15
3. Integrating basal ganglia: basal ganglia physiology and pathophysiology: 2nd part 13:15-15:00
Dopamine D1 and D2 receptors differently modulate information processing through the basal ganglia
Satomi Chiken (NIPS, Okazaki)
Motor and reward information in striatal direct and indirect pathway neurons
Yoshikazu Isomura (Tamagawa University, Tokyo)
Striatal control of direct and indirect pathways: concepts, experimental approaches and paradoxes
Olivier Darbin (South Alabama University, USA)
Coffee Break 15min
4. Integrating basal ganglia: basal ganglia physiology and pathophysiology: 3rd part 15:15-16:25
Cortico-basal ganglia networks subserving goal-directed behavior mediated by conditional visuo-goal association
Eiji Hoshi (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Medical Science)
Neuronal activity in the motor thalamus of dopamine-intact and Parkinsonian rats: firing rate vs. pattern
Kouichi C. Nakamura (Kyoto University, Kyoto)
Coffee Break 15min
5. Calculating basal ganglia: computational approaches to the basal ganglia functions 16:40-18:25
Functions of basal ganglia pathways in the healthy brain and their dysfunctions in Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease
Henning Schroll (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
A spiking neural network based on the basal ganglia functional anatomy
Javier Baladron Pezoa (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Corticostriatal temporal difference (CS-TD) hypothesis challenges the Go/No-Go learning model of the basal ganglia
Kenji Morita (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Closing remarks: 18:25-18:35
Atsushi Nambu (NIPS, Okazaki)
Poster Session with Dinner at Seminar Room A, B 18:45-20:45
Other schedule of the workshop
September 7th (Sunday), 2014
17:00-18:00
Registration, poster set-up and viewing time
September 9th (Tuesday), 2014
9:00-12:00
Lab Tour and Discussions
Division of System Neurophysiology (Nambu’s Lab)
Division of Behavioral Development (Isa’s Lab)
For poster presentation:
The poster size is the same as that in Neuro2014 (Height: 170cm Width: 150cm)