In affiliation with
In affiliation with
Institute for Medical Sciences, Level 7 conference room, Foresterhill, Aberdeen
Date: 25th June 2008
Organisers: Gernot Riedel, Bettina Platt (Aberdeen), Robert Hampson (Wake Forest)
08.00-08.30 Registration
08.30-08.45 Welcome (GR)
Session 1: Chair Gernot Riedel
08.45-09.30 Jacques Micheau (Bordeaux) ‘The When, Where and How of Memory.’
09.30-10.15 Robert Hampson (Wake Forest) ‘Cannabinoids and Cognition: The Intersection of Physiology, Pharmacology and Psychology’
10.15-10.45 Coffee break
Session 2: Chair Bettina Platt
10.45-11.15 Anushka Goonawardena (Aberdeen/Wake Forest) ‘Cannabinoids hinder the recruitment of hippocampal firing correlates during acquisition of a short-term memory task in rats’
11.15-11.45 Lianne Robinson (Aberdeen) ‘Involvement of the cannabinoid system in spatial flexibility of rats’
11.45-12.15 Jorge Quillfeldt (Porto Alegre) ‘The hippocampal endocannabinoid system and its differential roles in the modulation of aversive memory processes’
12.15-13.30 Lunch
Session 3: Chair Robert Hampson
13.30-14.00 Paola Fadda (Cagliary) ‘Effects of cannabinoid self-administration on the behavioural responses in the phencyclidine (PCP) model of schizophrenia in rats’
14.00-14.30 Jonathan Arnold (Sydney) ‘Heterozygous neuregulin 1 mice display altered behavioural responses to repeated cannabinoid exposure.’
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
Session 4: Chair Jacques Micheau
15.00-15.30 Michael Wesley (Wake Forest) ‘Altered Neural Processing and Poor Decision Making in Chronic Marijuana Users’
15.30-16.00 Patrick Rosner (Bochum) ‘Cannabinoids and neurophysiological endophenotypes of schizophrenia’
16.00 Close
16.30: Transfer to Old Aberdeen
17.00: Dinner - Linklater Rooms, Elphingstone Hall, Old Aberdeen
19.00: Bus Pick-up, Transfer to Aviemore
Sponsored by:
University of Aberdeen - School of Medical Sciences, Institute for Medical Sciences, Neuroscience Programme
For queries or further information contact Gernot Riedel (g.riedel@abdn.ac.uk)