| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | THE AMYGDALA AND EMOTIONAL MEMORIES |
| Discussion Leader: Mortimer Mishkin (NIMH) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Joseph E LeDoux (NYU)
"Amygdala: From obscure brain region to household word" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Raymond J Dolan (University College, London)
"Insights into the human amygdala from psychology and functional imaging" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY |
| Discussion Leader: Patricia Shinnick-Gallagher (UT Galveston) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Roberto Malinow (Cold Spring Harbor)
"Synaptic modifications underlying a form of learning" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 10:00 am | Vadim Y Bolshakov (Harvard)
"Spatiotemporal asymmetry of associative synaptic plasticity in fear conditioning pathways" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Po-Wu Gean (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)
"Differential expression of excitatory and inhibitory transmitter receptors in the amygdala after acquisition, extinction and reinstatement of fear memory" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:00 pm | Donald G Rainnie (Emory)
"Modification of spike-timing precision by inhibitory synaptic input and its implications for synaptic plasticity" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short Talk: Glen Schafe (Yale)
"Fear memory consolidation: A view from both sides of the thalamo-amygdala synapse" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEUROMODULATION |
| Discussion Leader: Donald Rainnie (Emory) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Denis Paré (Rutgers)
"How does the amygdala facilitate memory formation in emotionally arousing conditions?" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:30 pm | Anthony A Grace (University of Pittsburgh)
"Effects of chronic stress on prefrontal cortical-amygdala interactions: A role in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Short Talk: Ron Stoop (University of Lausanne)
"Neuropeptidergic modulation in the central amygdala" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
| 9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Short Talk: James Crane (Queensland Brain Institute, Brisbane)
"Aversive stimuli reset membrane potential oscillation in the amygdala" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | FEAR CONDITIONING |
| Discussion Leader: Denis Paré (Rutgers) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Stephen Maren (University of Michigan)
"Brain circuits for encoding, retrieving, and inhibiting fear memories" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 10:00 am | Michael S Fanselow (UCLA)
"What can fear learning without an amygdala tell us about amygdala function?" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:25 am | Short Talk: Sheena Josselyn (University of Toronto)
"Neuronal competition and selection in memory formation" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Hans-Christian Pape (University of Münster)
"Signal transduction during fear related memory formation" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:00 pm | Jeansok J Kim (Yale)
"Amygdala mediation of stress-induced impairments in hippocampal function" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short Talk: Luke R Johnson (NYU)
"Mapping emotional memory within the lateral amygdala" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time / Optional Excursion |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | APPETITIVE CONDITIONING/ADDICTION |
| Discussion Leader: Alex J McDonald (University of South Carolina) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Michela Gallagher (Johns Hopkins)
"Amygdala-frontal interactions and reward expectancy" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:30 pm | Barry J Everitt (University of Cambridge, UK)
"Neuropsychological mechanisms of appetitive learning: links to drug addiction" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:05 pm | Ronald E See (Medical University of South Carolina)
"Drug addiction, relapse, and the amygdala" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Short Talk: Kay Tye (UCSF)
"Rapid changes in the response properties of amygdala neurons occur during reward learning" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | EXTINCTION |
| Discussion Leader: Gregory J Quirk (University of San Juan) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Gregory J Quirk (University of San Juan)
"Prefrontal-amygdala interactions mediating extinction of conditioned fear" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 10:00 am | Elizabeth A Phelps (NYU)
"Functional imaging studies of fear extinction in humans" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:25 am | Short Talk: Cyril Herry (Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel)
"Encoding of fear extinction in the basal amygdala" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | R. Fredrick Westbrook (University of New South Wales, Australia)
"Role of NMDAR activation in the amygdala on short and long-term
extinction of fear reactions" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:00 pm | Michael Davis (Emory)
"Extinction soon after fear conditioning may actually erase fear memories" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short Talk: Geoffrey Murphy (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
"L-type voltage gated calcium channels mediate consolidation but not extinction of conditioned fear memories in mice" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION |
| Discussion Leader: Patrik Vuilleumier (University of Geneva) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Christian Büchel (University of Hamburg)
"Response properties of the human amygdala" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:30 pm | Paul J Whalen (University of Wisconsin)
"Functional imaging studies of amygdala function" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Short Talk: Tali Sharot (NYU)
"Imaging the future through rose-colored glasses: neural mechanisms of the optimism bias" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
| 9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Short Talk: Jan Gläscher (Caltech)
"Effects of emotion and working memory load on visual activation in the lateral occipital complex" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS |
| Discussion Leader: Ahmad Hariri (University of Pittsburgh) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Joy Hirsch (Columbia)
"Individual differences in anxiety predict amygdala responses to fearful faces" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 10:00 am | J Douglas Bremner (Emory)
"Neuroimaging and anxiety disorders" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:25 am | Short Talk: Patrick M Fisher (University of Pittsburgh)
"5-HT regulation of amygdala reactivity via DRN HTR1A and prefrontal HTR2A" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:25 am | Roger K Pitman (Harvard)
"Investigating the pathogenesis of posttraumatic stress disorder with neuroimaging" |
| 11:25 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
| 11:35 am - 12:00 pm | Wayne C Drevets (NIMH)
"Neuroimaging and neuropathological abnormalities in the amygdala in mood disorders" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Short Talk: Ruben Alvarez (NIMH)
"Contextual fear conditioning in a virtual environment: Role of the amygdala and hippocampus" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time / Optional Excursion |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH |
| Discussion Leader: Bruce S McEwen (Rockefeller) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Sumantra Chattarji (NCBS, Bangalore)
"Good plasticity in a bad neighborhood: implications for stress disorders" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:05 pm | Discussion |
| 8:05 pm - 8:30 pm | Christian Grillon (NIMH)
"Experimental models of fear and anxiety in humans" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Short Talk: Seth Norrholm (Emory)
"Impaired fear inhibition in combat and civilian PTSD patients" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
| 9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Short Talk: Gal Richter-Levin (University of Haifa)
"Differential modulation of plasticity in hippocampal subregions by the basolateral amygdala" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 11:30 pm | Informal Social |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |