UCL Institute of Neurology

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This is a chronological list of all seminars and events in the calendar. Click on highlighted areas for further details.

20 November Quentin Huys (University College London)
Approaching avoidance: Asymmetries between rewards and punishments
23 November Dr Gregor Thut (Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow)
The posterior alpha-rhythm in attentional selection and perception: Correlation versus causation studied by TMS/EEG
25 November Professor Alexis Brice (INSERM Paris, France)
Hereditary spastic paraplegia
25 November Professor Dame Kay Davies (University of Oxford)
Genetic mouse models
26 November Professor Louis Lemieux - ION
Tbc
26 November John Terry (Bristol)
Seminar: The role of neural oscillations in health and disease: Can theory enhance clinical understanding?
27 November Cecilia Heyes (University of Oxford)
Where do mirror neurons come from?
30 November Dr Elisabeth Hill (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Lessons from the sea squirt: Why movement difficulties are common in neurodevelopmental disorders
1 December Marco Beato
Journal club
1 December Marco Beato
Journal club
1 December Professor Kristjan Jessen (UCL)
"Control of Schwann cell myelination and nerve repair by c-Jun and Notch"
2 December Dr Shamima Rahman (UCL ICH)
Mitochondrial disorders
2 December Professor Francesco Muntoni (UCL ICH)
Treatment trials in Muscular Dystrophies
3 December Dr Barry Seemungal - Imperial College, London
Tbc
3 December Krish Singh (Cardiff)
Seminar on GABA and electrophysiology
3 December Professor Daniel Wolpert (Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge)
'Decisions, Games and Structures in Sensorimotor Control: the post ION years'
4 December Kenway Louie (New York University)
Subject TBA
7 December Professor David J Nutt (Psychopharmacology Unit, University of Bristol)
Dopamine and addiction: not all it's cracked up to be?
10 December Professor Ken Smith - ION
Tbc
10 December Prof Gabriel Curio (Charite Berlin)
The Berlin Brain-computer Interface - scope and limits for EEG-based man-machine interaction
11 December Marco Iacoboni (UCLA)
Subject TBA
15 December Frances Edwards
Journal club
15 December Frances Edwards
Journal club
15 December Frances Edwards
Journal club
16 December Dr Manju Kurian, Research Fellow in Paediatric Neurology/Medical and Molecular Genetics (School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham)
The Role of Autozygosity Mapping in the Molecular Characterisation of Neurological Disorders of Infancy
17 December Dr Mahinda Yogarajah - ION/NSE
Current and Future Applications of Tractography in Epilepsy
17 December Alex Leff (University College London)
Subject TBA
7 January Daniel Choquet (Bordeaux)
Seminar on Dynamic imaging of membrane protein organization
15 January Kevin O'Regan (CNRS)
Subject TBA
21 January Dr Marie Helene Boudrias (Sobell Dept, ION)
Output properties and organisation of the forelimb representation of motor areas on the lateral aspect of the hemisphere in rhesus macaques.
22 January Chloe Farrer (CNRS)
Subject TBA
29 January John Pearce (Cardiff University)
Subject TBA
2 February Professor Charles ffrench-Constant (MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
Myelination and repair
4 February Kamil Ugurbil (Minnesota)
Seminar on "Very high-field Human MR: Latest developments"
12 February Rosalyn Moran (University College London)
Subject TBA
19 February Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France, Paris)
Subject TBA
25 February Prof Christopher Kennard (Dept of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford)
Visuomotor behaviour - a saccadic perspective
26 February Anil Seth (University of Sussex)
Subject TBA
2 March Dr Darren Monckton (Division of Molecular Genetics, University of Glasgow)
Myotonic Dystrophy
4 March Timothy Ryan (Cornell)
Seminar on Single-synapse neuroimaging
5 March Christian Kaul (University College London)
Subject TBA
18 March Clare Elwell (UCL)
Seminar on "Shedding Light on Brain"
19 March Geoffrey Schoenbaum (University of Maryland)
Subject TBA
1 April Richard Bowtell (Nottingham)
Seminar on "fMRI at 7T"
6 April Dr Giuseppe Lauria (National Neurological Institute 'Carlo Besta', Milan)
Small fibre neuropathies
30 April Sue Becker (University of Toronto)
Subject TBA
4 May Professor Rudolf Martini (Department of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Wurzburg)
CMT and myelination
13 May Athene Donald (Cambridge)
Seminar on Imaging protein aggregation
21 May Miguel Nicolelis (Duke University)
Subject TBA
1 June Professor Michael Duchen (University College London)
Mitochondrial biology
3 June Robert Turner (Leipzig)
Seminar on MR imaging of cortical microarchitecture
18 June Maria Alessandra Umilta (University of Parma)
6 July Professor Ueli Suter (Institute of Cell Biology, Zurich)
Mouse models of neuropathies
9 July Marieke Scholvinck (University College London)
Subject TBA
16 July Scott Grafton (UC Santa Barbara)
Subject TBA
7 September Professor John Vissing (Department of Neurology, Psychiatry and Sensory Sciences, University of Copenhagen)
Muscle exercise
5 October Professor Lawrence Wrabetz (Department of Neuroscience, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan)
Demyelination
2 November Professor Marinos Dalakas (Imperial College London)
Inclusion Body Myositis
7 December Silvere van der Maarel (Leiden University)
FSHD