Tuesday 24 July – Neuroscience Day

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Neuroscience Day – Wills Hall Conference Centre Main Hall

Chairs – Dr. Adrian James, Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Professor Matt Jones, University of Bristol

09.30 09.45 Introduction and Welcome – Professor Wendy Burn, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists
09.45 10.30 Bio-behavioural consequences of early life stress – lessons from rodent studies – Professor Carmen Sandi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
10.30 11.15 ADHD:  Progress in identifying genetic and environmental risk factors – Professor Anita Thapar, University of Cardiff
11.15 11.45 COFFEE
11.45 12.30 Brain networks in health and disease – Professor Ed Bullmore, University of Cambridge
12.30 13.45 LUNCH – Wills Hall Dining Room
13.45 14.30 Synaptic plasticity and addiction – Professor Rob Malenka, Stanford University
14.30 15.15 Translating Cutting-Edge Neuroscience into Clinical Practice: The Future of Psychiatry, Today – Professor David Ross, Yale University
15.15 15.45 COFFEE
15.45 16.30 Integrating psychiatric genetics, sleep neurophysiology and memory to illuminate schizophrenia aetiology, symptoms and therapy – Professor Matt Jones, University of Bristol
16.30 17.15 The Relationship Between Mental Illness and Sleep/Circadian Rhythm Disruption: Mechanisms to New Therapeutic Approaches – Professor Russell Foster, University of Oxford
17.15 17.30 Roundup and close – Dr Kate Lovett, Dean, Royal College of Psychiatrists
EVENING
17.30 18.45 Dinner – BBQ at Wills Hall
18.45 19.30 Buses leave from main entrance of Wills Hall to S.S. Great Britain
19.30 22.30 Drinks reception on board S.S. Great Britain

The S.S. Great Britain