Congress : Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases

Congress : Evolutionary Roots of Human Brain Diseases

  • Congrès

    • Congress held on February 22, 23 and 24, 2024 at the Hôtel Légère in Muensbach, Luxembourg.

    Under the Auspices of Société des Sciences Médicales de Luxembourg

    SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

    Nico J Diederich, MD

    • Consultant in Neurology at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of Cologne (Germany)

    Martin Brüne, MD

    • Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Social Neuropsychiatry and Evolutionary Medicine at the LWL University-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)

    Katrin Amunts, MD

    • Professor Director of the C. and O. Vogt-Institute for Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, and of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine Research Center Juelich (Germany)

    Christopher G Goetz, MD, FAAN

    • Professor of Neurological Sciences and Pharmacology at Rush Medical College, Chicago (USA)

    PROGRAM:

    SESSION 1 : THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024 / CHAIR : KATRIN AMUNTS
    • 14h00 : Welcome address - Guy Berchem - Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg and Luxembourg Institute of Health
    • 14h10 : Introduction to the congress - Nico Diederich - Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg
    • 14h20 : Human telencephalization - Katrin Amunts KEYNOTE
    • 14h50 : General aspects in the evolution of glia cells - Corrado Cali - Department of Neuroanatomy, University of Turin (Italy)
    • 15h10 : Metabolic evidence supporting the evolution of glial cells - Pierre Magistretti - Emeritus Professor Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Switzerland and Saudi Arabia)
    • 15h30 : The overstrain on mitochondria - Anne Grünewald - Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Esch-Belval (Luxembourg)
    • 16h00 : Break
    • 16h20 : Intrinsic templates for neurodegeneration - Toshiki Uchihara - Program Director, University of Hawaii postgraduate medical education program at Okinawa Chubu Hospital, Okinawa, Japan
    • 16h50 : Goal-directed and habitual behaviours - Ledia F. Hernandez - Network center for Biomedical Research, Carlos lI Health Institute/Madrid (Spain)
    • 17h20 : Adaptive archaic introgression - Olga Dolgova - Centre Nacional d'Analisi Genòmica; Centre de Regulació Genomica, Barcelona (Spain)
    • 17h50 : Round table - Lead: Michel Heneka - Director, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedecine, Esch-Belval (Luxembourg)
    • 18h15 : Cocktail Party and Networking

     

    SESSION 2 : FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024 / CHAIR : NICO DIEDERICH
    • 9h00 : Differences in brain gene expression between humans and primates - Genevieve Konopka - Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas, Dallas (USA)
    • 9h30 : Alzheimer's Disease, the parietal lobes, and the evolution of the human genus - Emiliano Bruner - Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre l Evolución Humana, Burgos (Spain) KEYNOTE
    • 10h10 : Parkinson's disease - overstrain of basal gangia and brainstem nuclei - Christopher G Goetz
    • 10h40 : Brain diseases associated with unstable repeats - Peng lin - Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atanta (USA)
    • 11h00 : Pause
    • 11h30 : The Properties of Cortico-motoneuronal. Connections and their Evolutionary Significance for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Roger lemon - Department of Cinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London (United Kingdom)
    • 12h00 : Round table - Lead: Rejko Krüger - Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg, Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Esch-Belval (Luxembourg).
    • 12h30 : Lunch

     

    SESSION 3 : FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2024 / CHAIR : MARTIN BRÜNE
    • 14h00 : REM sleep behaviour disorder: nocturnal replay of "fight and flee? - Nico Diederich - Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg
    • 14h30 : Mood disorders: An evolutionary psychoneuroimmunological approach - Markus / Rantala - Department of Biology, University l Turku, Turku (Finland)
    • 15h00 : ADHD: lost benefit of excessive novelty - Annie Swanepoel - Learning Disability team, North East London NHS Foundation, London (United Kingdom)
    • 15h30 : Pause
    • 15h50 : Substance abuse: An evolutionary perspective of reward and motivation principles - Roger Sullivan - Department of Anthropology. California State University
    • 16h20 : Schizophrenia: Embracing the Spectrum - John S Allen - Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (USA) KEYNOTE
    • 16h50 -17h20 : Round table - Lead : Alfonso Troisi - Department of Systems Medicine, Unives of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome (Italy)

     

    SESSION 4 : SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2024 / CHAIR : CHRISTOPHER G GOETZ
    • 9h00 : Conditions of comparative brain connectomics - Kathleen S Rockland - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston (USA)
    • 9h30 : Are evolutionary concepts helpful in designing preventive strategies for brain diseases? - Gilberto Levy - Independent Researcher, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
    • 10h00 : Evolutionary aspects of neuropsychopharmacology - Martin Brüne KEYNOTE
    • 10h40 : Pause
    • 11h00 : Ongoing human evolution? - Nicole Bender - Institute of evolutionary medicine, University of Zürich (Switzerland)
    • 11h30 : Ongoing cultural evolution outpaces ongoing biological evolution - Jean-Pierre Changeux - Emeritus professor, Department of Neuroscience, Pasteur Institute and Collège de France, Paris (France)
    • 12h00 : Round table discussion - Lead: Axel Karenberg - Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Cologne (Germany)
    • 12h30 : Wrap-up - Sten Grillner - Distinguished Professor , Karolinska Institute Stockholm (Sweden)

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