3rd International Conference on Coma and Consciousness; Salerno, 4-7 July 2010
Salerno, 4-7 July 2010
Local organizer: Pr Michele Papa
Welcome address: University of Salerno UNISA http://www3.unisa.it/
Details on the area : www.amalficoast.com
Joint Meeting of
McDonnell Foundation Grant Coma and Consciousness Consortium
COST Action BM0605 on Consciousness: a transdisciplinary, integrated approach
DECODER : Deployment of Brain-Computer Interfaces for the Detection of Consciousness in Non-Responsive Patients
Mindbridge EU STREP Measuring Consciousness: Bridging the Mind-Brain Gap
Disorders & Coherence of the Embodied Self Marie Curie Research Training Network
3 day international meeting Sunday 4 - Tuesday 6 July, 2010
8 speakers per day + poster session during both days for participants
Sunday 4 July
5:30 PM, Welcome
6:00 PM, Opening lecture
7:30 PM, Welcome party
Monday 5 July
All day meeting
Tuesday 6 July
Meeting 8:30 - 12:00
Afternoon: tour (2 choices, A) archeological [Paestum site], B) landscape [Amalfi Coast]
Wednesday 7 July
Meeting till 4:00 PM (tea break)
8:00 PM Gala dinner
Speakers
- Steven LAUREYS: introducing disorders of consciousness
- Nicholas SCHIFF EEG in disorders of consciousness
- Adrian OWEN: fMRI in disorders of consciousness
- Joe GIACINO: assessing minimal signs of consciousness
- Joe FINS: neuroethics of enhancing cognition by deep brain stimulation
- Haim SOMPOLINSKY: Consciousness and Neural Computation
- David MENON: Brain function in anesthesia
- Rafi MALACH : internal and external consciousness
- Bettina SORGER : ?Talking? using BOLD
- Martin MONTI : 'communication' using fMRI
- Andrea SODDU: resting state fMRI
- Melanie BOLY: Information Theory and consciousness
- Caroline SCHNAKERS: (mis)diagnosis of the vegetative state
- Donatella MATTIA : Brain computer interfaces
Opening Conference of the Cognitive Development Center in Budapest, 15-17 January, 2010
We would like to invite to the
Opening Conference of the Cognitive Development Center in Budapest
Conference + Workshop (15-17 January, 2010)
Limited number of participants due to the size of the auditorium.Please register and send poster abstracts as soon as possible
Basic information:
Opening Conference of the Cognitive Development Center in Budapest - 15-16 January 2010
- no registration fee
DISCOS Contingency Workshop with John Watson (Berkely) - 17 January 2010
To register, go to http://web.ceu.hu/phil/cogdev/cdc_opening_2010
The speakers of the conference are:- Susan Carey (Harvard)- Susan Gelman (U of Michigan)- Mark Johnson (Birkbeck, London)- Alan Leslie (Rutgers)- Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)- Mike Tomasello (MPI EVA, Leipzig)
and the hosts:
- Gergely Csibra (CEU)
- György Gergely (CEU)
Registration is now open.
(detailed program will be available beginning of December)
International conference & PhD-course, Copenhagen April 21-23, 2010
Brain and Self. Psychiatric Nosology: Definition, History and Validity
International conference & PhD-course, Copenhagen
April 21-23, 2010
Organized by J. Parnas & K.S. Kendler
The field of psychiatry is again undergoing a major re-examination of its classification system. The two major nosologic systems ? DSM and ICD ? are both currently undergoing revisions. This conference ? to be held April 21-23, 2010 in Copenhagen under the sponsorship of University of Copenhagen (Danish National Research Foundation?s Centre for Subjectivity Research/Psychiatric Center Hvidovre, Phd School, Faculty of Health Sciences) ? will examine the conceptual and philosophical bases for psychiatric diagnoses. The conference is organized into 5 sessions: i) The Basics - The Definition of Psychiatric Illness and Rules for Classification, ii) The Historical Development of Modern Psychiatric Diagnoses, iii) Concepts of Validity in Psychology and Psychiatry, iv) Application to Major Depression and Schizophrenia and v) The Way(s) Forward.
Speakers include leading figures in the philosophy of psychiatry, vice-chair persons of the Task Force on DSM-IV and DSM-V and psychiatrists who have made important recent contributions to the philosophy-psychiatry dialogue (see program below). The meeting will emphasize dialogue with each presentation being followed first by formal comments from another of the contributors and then by open discussion.
The conference is open for participation for all with a professional interest (psychiatry, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, related disciplines). Participation is without fee, but registration is necessary. The conference covers no expenses related to participation. Maximum audience is 200, of which 50 places are reserved for local and foreign PhD students. There is no deadline for the application but selection/registration of participants will follow ?first come, first serve? principle.
PhD students are asked to register at: Mrs Merete Lynnerup: 
mly(at)hum.ku.dk
All other participants are asked to register at: Mrs Jill Opalesky jopales(at)vcu.edu
moreDISCOS Events in 2010
- Lyon (in cooperation with Heidelberg): 4.-6. of February, Workshop Epistemology and Concepts
- Munich: 6./7. of May, Workshop Therapy, Prevention and Ethics
- Budapest: 14.-19. of June, Summer school and International Conference "Intersubjectivity + the Self"
DISCOS International Conference; 13. - 15. Nov. 2008 in Heidelberg
During the last decade, philosophical, psychological and neurobiological approaches to the self have increasingly overcome their disciplinary constraints and entered into a productive dialogue. Different levels of self-awareness such as the 'core' or 'minimal self' and the 'extended' or 'narrative self' have been distinguished and investigated from a phenomenological, developmental and neurocognitive perspective ... 
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