Time: November 20-21, 2009, Beijing, China

Location: Lecture Hall, 13th floor, Automation Building

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Introduction
The International Symposium on Computational Medicine is one of the frontier forums of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The symposium of this year will focus on the advances of neural circuits and brain networks based on brain imaging techniques (MRI, Diffusion MRI, fMRI, fNIRS, EEG/MEG) and their applications to brain disorders. All speakers of this symposium are the active experts in this field and are invited only.

Scientific Program

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November 20, Friday,

9:00-9:30　 Opening Ceremony　 
Chair: Tianzi Jiang, Institute of Automation, CAS, China

9:30-10:20
Session 1: Functional Brain Networks
Chair: Dewen Hu, National University of Defense Technology, China
9:30-10:00　 Xiaoping Hu (Keynote Speaker), Georgia Tech and Emory University, USA
Title: Instantaneous and Causal Connectivity in Resting State Brain Networks Derived from fMRI Data
10:00-10:20　 Fang Fang, the Psychology Department, Peking University, China
Title: Retinotopically Specific Reorganization of Visual Cortex for Tactile Pattern Recognition

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-12:00
Session 2: Anatomical Connectivity Based on Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Chair: Yong He, Beijing Normal University, China
10:50-11:20　 James Gee (Keynote Speaker), PICSL, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Title: Tract-specific Analysis of Brain White Matter
11:20-11:40　 Gaolang Gong, Montreal Neurological Institute, Mcgill University, Canada
Title: Revealing the Patterns of Human Brain Anatomical Connectivity by Diffusion MRI Tractography
11:40-12:00　 Yueming Zhu, CNRS, France
Title: Development of Some DTI Data Processing Techniques

12:00-14:00  Lunch (Dining Room, 2nd Floor, CASIA)

14:00-15:30
Session 3: Brain Connectivity and Human Cognition
Chair: Andrew CN Chen, Capital Medical University, China
14:00-14:30　 Jen-Chuen Hsieh (Keynote Speaker), Brain Research Center of National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Title: The Brain Connecting the Mind, the Mind Embodying the Brain
14:30-14:50　 Tianming Liu, Department of Computer Science, the University of Georgia, USA
Title: Joint Modeling of Cortical Folding and Connectivity Patterns
14:50-15:10　 Yonghui Li, Institute of Automation, CAS, China
Title: Brain Anatomical Network and Intelligence
15:10-15:30　 Martin Walter, Department of Psychiatry, Otto v. Guericke University, Germany
Title: Multimodal Imaging of Altered Baseline Processing in Major Depression Using Combined Resting State fMRI and MR- spectroscopy

15:30-16:00  Coffee Break

16:00-17:30
Session 4: Brain Connectivity in Brain Diseases
Chair: Tianzi Jiang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
16:00-16:30　 Rolf Kotter (Keynote Speaker), Donders Institute, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen Med
Ctr, the Netherlands
Title: Patterns of Cortical Degeneration in an Elderly Cohort with Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
16:30-16:50　 Chunshui Yu, Tianjin Medical University, China
Title: Antidepressant Effect on Functional Connectivity of Cingulate Subregions in Major Depressive Disorder
16:50-17:10　 Anqi Qiu, National University of Singapore
Title: Relationships between Hippocampal Shape, Cortical Thickness, Integrity of White Matter Tracts in Schizophrenia
17:10-17:30　 Shan Yu, LIAMA, INRIA and CASIA, China
Title: A Functional MRI Study of the Effects of Stimulant Medication in ADHD Youth

18:00-20:00  Banquet

November 21, Saturday

9:00-10:30
Session 5: Neural Circuits
Chair: Hong Li, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
9:00-9:30　　 Michael Breakspear (Keynote Speaker), Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Title: Multistable and Hierarchical Cortical Dynamics
9:30-9:50　　 Xintian Hu, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Title: Non Human Primate Models of Depression and Parkinson’s Diseases
9:50-10:10　  Bing Liu, Institute of Automation, CAS, China
Title: Default Network Connectivity and the COMT Gene
10:10-10:30　 Bin Hu, Lanzhou University, China
Title: Enhance Ubiquitous Affective Learning Using EEG Approach

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00
Session 6: Brain Connectivity in Animals
Chair: Rong Xue, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China
11:00-11:20　 Ching-Po Lin, Dept. of Biomedical Image and Radiological Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Title: In vivo Mapping of Neural Connections Using MRI
11:20-11:40　 Zhengyi Yang, CAI, the University of Queensland, Australia
Title: MR Constrained 3D Reconstruction of Mouse Brain Histology Image
11:40-12:00　 Hao Lei, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, CAS, China
Title: Probing Neural Activities in Awake, Freely Moving Rodents with Manganese Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

12:00-14:00 Lunch (Dining Room, 2nd Floor, CASIA)

14:30-17:30
 Free Discussion (Coffee Hall, 13th Floor, CASIA)

17:30-19:30 Dinner (Dining Room, 2nd Floor, CASIA)

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