COMA AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Clinical, societal and ethical implications
Berlin, Thursday, June 4, 2009 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
of the 13th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Studies of Consciousness
Contact: Steven Laureys
Joint Meeting of COST Action BM0605 on Consciousness: a transdisciplinary, integrated approach
Mindbridge EU STREP Measuring Consciousness: Bridging the Mind-Brain Gap
Disorders & Coherence of the Embodied Self Marie Curie Research Training Network
McDonnell Foundation Grant Coma and Consciousness Consortium
Co-funded by the Mind Science Foundation.
Scientific Committee: Steven Laureys (Liège, Belgium); Robert Balas (Warsaw, Poland); Tim Bayne (Oxford, UK); Axel Cleeremans (Brussels, Belgium); Andreas Engel (Hamburg, Germany); John-Dylan Haynes (Berlin, Germany); Morton Overgaard (Aarhus, Denmark); Adrian M. Owen (Cambridge, UK) ; Geraint Rees (London, UK); Nicholas Schiff (New York, USA) ; Kai Vogeley (Cologne, Germany)
Local Organizing Committee: Patrick Wilken, Michael Pauen & John-Dylan Haynes (Berlin, Germany); Joseph Dial (Mind Science Foundation Texas, USA); Athena Demertzi (Liège, Belgium).
PROGRAM
Time | Activity |
Thursday, June 4, 2009 | |
8:00 | REGISTRATION & COFFEE & POSTER INSTALLATION |
8:30 | The need for a transdisciplinary study of coma and consciousness |
9:00 | he problem of unreportable awareness |
9:30 | (Un)consciousness through coherence |
10:00 | Sleep and consciousness: from theory to measurements |
10:30 | COFFEE |
11:00 | Why do seizures cause loss of consciousness? |
11:30 | Unexpected Recovery from the Minimally Conscious State After 19 Years: Lessons Learned from Terry Wallis |
12:00 | Awareness in the vegetative state? |
12:30 | LUNCH & POSTER PRESENTATION |
14:30 | The brain's default state and intrinsic functional connectivity |
15:00 | PET and fMRI correlates of consciousness |
15:30 | The locked-in syndrome and brain computer interfaces |
16:00 | COFFEE |
16:30 | Improving consciousness using deep brain stimulation |
17:00 | The neuroethics of measuring and modulating consciousness |
17:30 | Closing remarks |
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION CREDITS REQUESTED (European, AMA convertible) (+30 ethics & economics UFS)
Under the auspices of the European Neurological Society and the Belgian Brain Council
Registration (via ASSC main conference) | 40? (Early) | 80 ?(Late) |
The SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM is part of the European Commission 2nd Conference Joint Working Groups Meeting & 4th Management Committee of COST Action BM0605.
COST will reimburse all attendants of the meeting (registered before May 1st) travel (<1200?) & 3 nights of hotel (<120?/nightx3 nights) & 40? registration - covering 2 meals) - provided they are from participating countries (i.e. Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Spain, United Kingdom)
Please contact Cristea Gabriela.
Friday, June 5, 2009
4th Management Committee Meeting - COST Action BM0605 - Consciousness A Transdisciplinary, Integrated Approach
Time | Activity |
Friday, June 5, 2009 | |
8:00 | Axel Cleeremans |
8:30 | junior member speaker TBA WG1 Fundamentals (T. Bayne) |
8:45 | junior member speaker TBA WG2: Technologies (A.K. Engel & J.-D. Haynes) |
9:00 | junior member speaker TBA WG3: Paradigms (R. Balas) |
9:15 | junior member speaker TBA WG4: Clinical, ethical and societal implications (S. Laureys & K. Vogeley) |
9:30 | Axel Cleeremans |
10:00 | closing COST MC meeting |
10:00 - 11:00 | Mindbridge EU STREP Management Committee Meeting |
11:00 - 12:00 | DISCOS Marie Curie Research Training Network Committee Meeting |
12:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH and GUIDED POSTER TOUR |
Free Social Program
Time | Activity |
Friday, June 5, 2009 | |
14:00 - 18:00 | McDonnell Foundation Coma and Consciousness Consortium Management Committee Meeting |