The three-day event will focus on aspects of memory formation and neurobiology.
The conference will feature three workshops. One will concentrate on imaging neurons and the brain, answering the fundamental questions, "What do we see and what can we learn?" A second workshop, dealing with the implications of the research presented, will discuss the characteristics of stress and their importance in modulating the impact of stress on cognition. A third workshop will look at the implications for future drug development. Representatives of European and Israeli pharmaceutical firms, as well as psychiatrists, will participate in this discussion.
The two keynote speakers will be experts from Great Britain: Dr. Tim Bliss of the UK's National Institute for Medical Research, and Prof. Joe Herbert of Cambridge University's Center for Brain Research.
Bliss, a member of the prestigious British Royal Society, was the first to describe the mechanism of creating changes in nerve activity - changes that appear to constitute a basis for memory formation. As a result of his discoveries, hundreds of labs around the world are now investigating the subject. The second keynote speaker, Herbert, will describe the discovery that even the adult brain creates new nerve cells, a process known as neurogenesis. Harming this capability plays a role in causing anxiety and depression.
Scheduled speakers come from Switzerland's Brain and Mind Institute, France's Louis Pasteur University, as well as from England, Spain, Italy, the U.S. and elsewhere. Researchers from New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the University of Houston will also address sessions. The conference is the first in a series of scientific gatherings that the Haifa University institute, headed by Prof. Gal Richter-Levin, will conduct.
The conference will feature three workshops. One will concentrate on imaging neurons and the brain, answering the fundamental questions, "What do we see and what can we learn?" A second workshop, dealing with the implications of the research presented, will discuss the characteristics of stress and their importance in modulating the impact of stress on cognition. A third workshop will look at the implications for future drug development. Representatives of European and Israeli pharmaceutical firms, as well as psychiatrists, will participate in this discussion.
The two keynote speakers will be experts from Great Britain: Dr. Tim Bliss of the UK's National Institute for Medical Research, and Prof. Joe Herbert of Cambridge University's Center for Brain Research.
Bliss, a member of the prestigious British Royal Society, was the first to describe the mechanism of creating changes in nerve activity - changes that appear to constitute a basis for memory formation. As a result of his discoveries, hundreds of labs around the world are now investigating the subject. The second keynote speaker, Herbert, will describe the discovery that even the adult brain creates new nerve cells, a process known as neurogenesis. Harming this capability plays a role in causing anxiety and depression.
Scheduled speakers come from Switzerland's Brain and Mind Institute, France's Louis Pasteur University, as well as from England, Spain, Italy, the U.S. and elsewhere. Researchers from New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the University of Houston will also address sessions. The conference is the first in a series of scientific gatherings that the Haifa University institute, headed by Prof. Gal Richter-Levin, will conduct.