From braind from infomed.sld.cu Sun Nov 1 11:15:45 2009 From: braind from infomed.sld.cu (Dr. Calixto Machado) Date: Mon Nov 2 11:16:17 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] FW: Symposium on Disorders of Consciousness Cuba 2010 Message-ID: <026e01ca5b0f$6d416600$47c43200$@sld.cu> Dear colleague, the International Symposium on Disorders of = Consciousness will be held in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on March 16-18, 2010. This conference = will be held in parallel with the National Congress of Neurology at the same venue (http://promociondeeventos.sld.cu/neurologia2010/). =20 Please, note that American citizens can legally attend our Symposium = (read information below). =20 We expect to welcome you!! =20 CALIXTO MACHADO, MD, Ph.D., FAAN President International Symposium on Disorders of Consciousness E-mail: braind@infomed.sld.cu =20 =20 =09 logo Organized by the IAB Network for the Definition of Death =20 Dear colleagues, Since its foundation in 1996, the Definition of Death Network from the International Association of Bioethics (IAB), has maintained a fruitful discussion about all medical and ethical issues related to human death, end-of-life dilemmas, and consciousness disorders. We have the pleasure of inviting you to attend the International = Symposium on Disorders of Consciousness, organized by the International = Association of Bioethics, to be held in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on March 16-18, 2010. The Terry Schiavo, and other famous cases, have raised new controversies about the diagnosis and management of the persistent vegetative, the minimally conscious state, etc. Hence, the disorders of consciousness discussions are actual and permanent subjects for debate in the media = and scientific discussion in any forum. Hence, our main goal is to provide a suitable scientific platform to discuss all topics disorders of consciousness. Cubans will sincerely offer you a warm hospitality in Cienfuegos city, = named as the Pearl of the South, with a beautiful harbor and an incredible = blue sea, will provide the most proper venue to discuss any issue related to human consciousness. Sincerely, Dr. Calixto Machado, MD, PhD President of the Symposium =20 MAIN TOPICS =95 Pathophysiology of consciousness generation =95 Theories about consciousness in human beings =95 Coma, persistent vegetative state (PVS), minimally conscious state = (MCS), and coma. =95 Clinical diagnosis of coma, PVS and MCS. =95 Neuroimaging techniques for assessing coma, PVS and MCS.=20 (MRI, fMRI, MRS, PET, SPECT, QEEG, MEG, etc.) =95 Neurophysiologic tests for assessing coma, PVS and MCS. =95 Neurorehabilitation of PVS and MCS.. =95 Neuroprotection. =95 Neurocritical care and Neuromonitoring =95 New trends in cerebral cardio-pulmonar-cerebral resuscitation. =20 INSTRUCTIONS TO SUBMIT AN ABTRACT You can participate in our Symposium as a delegate, although we = encourage you to submit an abstract. Please, carefully read the following = instructions before submitting your abstract. Only abstracts submitted in English = will be accepted, in order to be published. Abstracts sent in Spanish will not = be considered. Submit your abstract in Microsoft Word (2003 or 2007). =95 Authors' names should be provided in the format "R.S. Alvarez, J.M. Manero". You should write your first names initials, and your second = name. Do not add Dr, Prof, Mr, Mrs, etc. The first name will correspond with = the Presenting author. =95 The title should have a maximum of 150 characters, typed in = capitals. =95 Affiliation should be included in line a. If authors=92 affiliations = are different, your should indicate them filling b, c, and d lines. The presenting author=92s email address should be included. =95 The abstract should have a maximum of 250 words. 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La persona que envia este correo asume el compromiso de= usar el servicio a tales fines y cumplir con las regulaciones establecidas= =0A=0AInfomed: http://www.sld.cu/=0A From connelly.bill from gmail.com Thu Nov 5 20:22:07 2009 From: connelly.bill from gmail.com (Bill) Date: Thu Nov 5 23:29:35 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Adhesion of tissue slice onto a glass substrate References: <3c22b56c-9e31-450b-aeb3-7aef7cdb91f7@t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: <91af7c4f-597b-4a2b-9720-37052c9f1045@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Hi Vini, I have two thoughts. The classical way of holding down slices is to bend a piece of platinum (1mm) into a U shape, and then adhere (cynoacrylate glue) fine fibers across the U (so it looks like a harp). Then use that to hold down you slice. I don't fully understand the geometry of your electrode, but if the platinum causes a short circuit, you can coat it in cynoacrylate, or by teflon coated wire. If you're scared of compressing your retina, use a vice (with a flat gripping face) and a micrometer, and compress the platinum down to the nominal thickness of a retina, then put the harp on upside down, so the fibres are only just touching the retina. You can also try precoating the glass with something like laminin, poly-L-lysine or a non-organic hydrophobic coating like sylguard. But if you electrode is base of your chamber, this this won't really be an option. Your final option is to drop submersions recording, and use an interface chamber. On Oct 24, 6:02?pm, vini wrote: > Hello, > > I am doing an extracellular recording from a mouse retina. I use > planer metal electrodes on glass. However, the tissue when placed on > glass and perfused, starts to float in the medium, whatever small the > perfusion rate I keep. This is a big problem for me because for my > recordings, I need to have tissue sticking properly on the glass.. > > I have tried using a filter paper carrier, it still floats :( > > Can someone help me in this regard? > > Thanks, > > Vini. From isnn09 from gmail.com Mon Nov 9 05:53:12 2009 From: isnn09 from gmail.com (ISNN2010) Date: Mon Nov 9 14:15:07 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] CFP: ISNN2010 (June 6-10, 2010; Shanghai, China) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN2010) June 6-10, 2010; Shanghai, China Websites: http://isnn2010.sjtu.edu.cn or http://isnn2010.mae.cuhk.edu.hk Paper submissions: http://isnn2010.sjtu.edu.cn/login.asp The Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010) will be held in Shanghai, following the successes of previous events. Shanghai is the largest city in China, located in her eastern coast at the outlet of the Yangtze River. Originally a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew to importance in the 19th century. In 2005 Shanghai became the world's busiest cargo port. The city is an emerging tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as the Bund and Xintiandi, its modern and ever-expanding Pudong skyline including the Oriental Pearl Tower, and its new reputation as a cosmopolitan center of culture and design. Today, Shanghai is the largest center of commerce and finance in mainland China, and has been described as the =93showpiece=94 of the world's fastest-growing economy. In addition, Shanghai is the venue of forthcoming World Expo 2010 to take place from May 1 to October 31 (the symposium registration includes one day tour to the World Expo on June 10). ISNN 2010 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of neural network research and applications in related fields. The symposium will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics. Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ISNN 2010. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the symposium are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers. Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ISNN 2010. A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation, names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers. Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. The ISNN 2010 proceedings will be published by Springer in its series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EI) and Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing (ISTP). Selected good papers will be included in special issues of several journals such as Neurocomputing, Neural Computation and Applications, Cognitive Neurodynamics, Cognitive Computation, and Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. In addition, the International Neural Network Society (INNS) will offer two best student paper awards (US$250 each with one-year INNS membership). ************************************************ TOPIC AREAS ************************************************ 1. Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Spiking neurons Visual and auditory cortex Neural encoding and decoding Plasticity and adaptation Brain imaging Learning and memory Inference and reasoning Perception, emotion and development Attractor and associative memory Neurodynamics and complex systems 2. Models, Methods and Inference Stability and convergence analysis Neural network models Supervised learning Unsupervised learning Embeddings and manifold learning Active learning Statistical and informationtheoretic methods Kernel methods and support vector machines Mixture models Graphical and causal models Bayesian networks Topic models Gaussian processes Model selection Matrix/tensor analysis Structured and relational data Clustering 3. Vision and Auditory Modelling Visual perception and modelling Visual selective attention Statistical and pattern recognition Visual coding and representation Object recognition Motion and tracking Natural scene analysis Auditory perception and modelling Source separation Speech recognition and speech synthesis Speaker identification Audio and speech retrieval Music modelling and analysis 4. Control, Robotics and Hardware Neuromorphic hardware and implementation Embedded neural networks Fuzzy neural networks Cognitive robotics Developmental robotics Multi-agent systems and game theory Reinforcement learning Planning and decision making Action and motor control Visuomotor control 5. Novel Approaches and Applications Brain-like systems Adaptive intelligent systems Brain-computer interfaces Granular computing Hybrid intelligent systems Neuroinformatics and neuroengineering Bioinformatics Information retrieval Data mining and knowledge discovery Natural language processing ************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES ************************************************ Full paper submission deadline: December 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2010 Camera-ready copy and author registration: February 1, 2010 For inquiries, please contact the secretariat at isnn2010@sjtu.edu.cn From connelly.bill from gmail.com Thu Nov 12 19:30:16 2009 From: connelly.bill from gmail.com (Bill) Date: Thu Nov 12 22:17:00 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: Rv: LTP mouse in submerged chamber References: Message-ID: When it comes to the induction of LTP, people report different kinetics. I don't think you're problem is the flow rate. 2-3 mL/min is fine. I think the problem is the bubbles. You're causing electrolytic lessons. The easiest way to stop the bubbles is to use a glass microelectrode (500kOhm-2MOhm) filled with aCSF as your stimulating electrode. Your pulses also seem quite strong (and long). You should be able to evoke pretty good fEPSPs without resorting to such extreme stimulus strengths. Finally, 100Hz for 1 second? Have you thought of switching to a theta burst type paradigm? Most people report stronger and more stable LTP with theta burst type stimuli. On Oct 23, 1:47?am, Ana Ruiz Nu?o wrote: > To members to Neur-sci, > > ? > I am setting up the LTP in mouse hippocampal slices (350 microns)?in a submerged chamber.? I get the LTP after 30 min?but I think I am still having problems with perfusion because I don't get the typical kinetics as you can see in the attachment. > Some authors get good kinetics in mouse with 2-3ml/min as I got. Others use faster (5-6ml/min)?ones, but sometimes it is not very easy to get an equilibrium between perfusion and stability. > There is another problem with the mouse slice. Although I place the stimulus and recording within 400-500 microms apart, sometimes you get bubbles after the tetanic stimulation and it takes time till dissapear and get the real effect. > ? > I am stimulating and recording in stratum radiatum of the CA1 region. I try to be consistent and the stimulating microelectrode was positioned in the ipsilateral Schaffer collateral-commissural pathway of CA3 area and the recording microelectrode was placed within the stratum radiatum of CA1 area 300-600 microns apart.?Synaptic responses were evoked by constant stimulus pulses (0.2 ms, 0.3-2 mA)?delivered by?bipolar Ni/Cr stimulating electrode.At the beginning of each experiment, test pulses that evoke 40-50% of the maximum EPSP slope.Tetanic stimulation (TS) was a 1-s 100-Hz pulse?for induction of LTP. The amount of LTP was quantified 30 min after the train, and was expressed as percent increases in the slope of field EPSPs.?Recording chamber at 3 ml/min at 30-32?C. I also put a piece of lense paper under the slice. > > Any suggestions for improving recordings?. Do you think?is a?reliable?recording for publication?. I attach a typical recording. > > Thank you for your time in this matter > > Ana From letizia.polito from gmail.com Fri Nov 13 15:44:16 2009 From: letizia.polito from gmail.com (letizia polito) Date: Fri Nov 13 21:31:17 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] neuronal cultures Message-ID: Hi, does anyone work with hippocampal or cortical adult neurons? What are the main problems vs embrional or postnatal cultures? It is difficult to have a neuronal preparation not contaminated by microglia? Thank you everyone. From connelly.bill from gmail.com Wed Nov 18 19:42:53 2009 From: connelly.bill from gmail.com (Bill) Date: Wed Nov 18 21:56:19 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: neuronal cultures References: Message-ID: <3c551ba0-e7fd-4293-9d66-5298f04bd381@b25g2000prb.googlegroups.com> Adult cortical neuronal cell culture? Yes, it is difficult to get any live neurons in your cell culture. We always work with either E16-17 or P1-3. For adult neuronal culture you need to do all kinds of dissociation, gradient separation, and neurotrophic stuff (at least in my experience). Do some searches for adult neuronal culture methods and I think you'll see what I mean. On Nov 14, 9:44?am, letizia polito wrote: > Hi, > does anyone work with hippocampal or cortical adult neurons? What are the > main problems vs embrional or postnatal cultures? It is difficult to have a > neuronal preparation not contaminated by microglia? > Thank you everyone. From breitenbach from chem.au.dk Thu Nov 19 19:30:04 2009 From: breitenbach from chem.au.dk (Thomas Breitenbach) Date: Thu Nov 19 19:32:21 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: neuronal cultures (from Letizia Polito replied by Bill Connelly) In-Reply-To: <200911191705.nAJH5fM14232@net.bio.net> References: <200911191705.nAJH5fM14232@net.bio.net> Message-ID: <20091120013004.47774ubgr8zpi8zw@webmail.nfit.au.dk> Dear Letizia and Bill, we had also severe problems with the neurons from rat embryos. This changed a lot, when we were testing Neurobasal A medium from Invitrogen (please remember, I do not intend to do a PR show here, it's only help!!!). We tried many things, like low oxygen, low osmolarity, sandwich coverslip culture, astrocyte feeding layer (which seems to be really great, but we have problems with the layer...), different media from many companies and suffered through all this, sometimes great cultures, sometimes only dead cells in the well / dish. After all we started using this literature-source as background: Acute Effects of Ethanol on Kainate Receptors with Different Subunit Compositions, Valenzuela, Cardoso2, JPET March 1, 1999 vol. 288 no. 3 1199-1206 http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/288/3/1199.abstract This has nothing to do with our research, but is providing very good and stable culture results. I can provide you our actual protocol, if you want, but this should be done out of the list. But remember, that the pattern of morphology/ type of the neurons in this culture is quite different from embryonal cultures. Best regards Thomas Quoting neur-sci-request@oat.bio.indiana.edu, Neur-sci Digest, Vol 54, Issue 6 (Thu 19 Nov 2009 18:05:41 CET): > 1. Re: neuronal cultures (Bill) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:42:53 -0800 (PST) > From: Bill > Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: neuronal cultures > To: neur-sci@net.bio.net > Message-ID: > <3c551ba0-e7fd-4293-9d66-5298f04bd381@b25g2000prb.googlegroups.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Adult cortical neuronal cell culture? Yes, it is difficult to get any > live neurons in your cell culture. We always work with either E16-17 > or P1-3. For adult neuronal culture you need to do all kinds of > dissociation, gradient separation, and neurotrophic stuff (at least in > my experience). Do some searches for adult neuronal culture methods > and I think you'll see what I mean. > > > On Nov 14, 9:44??am, letizia polito wrote: >> Hi, >> does anyone work with hippocampal or cortical adult neurons? What are the >> main problems vs embrional or postnatal cultures? It is difficult to have a >> neuronal preparation not contaminated by microglia? >> Thank you everyone. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Neur-sci mailing list > Neur-sci@net.bio.net > http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/neur-sci > > End of Neur-sci Digest, Vol 54, Issue 6 > *************************************** > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thomas Breitenbach, PostDoc Dept. of Physiology/ Chemistry; University of Aarhus Ole Worms All?00 160, room 115/ Langelandsgade 140, room 1511-221 DK-8000 Aarhus C phone: +45 8942 2797 fax: +45 8619 6199 mobil: +45 2298 7186 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From inaki.navarro from upm.es Sat Nov 21 14:29:03 2009 From: inaki.navarro from upm.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aki_Navarro?=) Date: Sat Nov 21 16:11:25 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] BICS 2010 - Call for papers, workshops and tutorials Message-ID: <8cc3f3ce0911211129r286ea2dam25a563d663675fa@mail.gmail.com> *We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ============================================================================== ____ _____ _____ _____ ___ ___ __ ___ | _ \_ _/ ____|/ ____| |__ \ / _ \/_ |/ _ \ | |_) || || | | (___ ) | | | || | | | | | _ < | || | \___ \ / /| | | || | | | | | |_) || || |____ ____) | / /_| |_| || | |_| | |____/_____\_____|_____/ |____|\___/ |_|\___/ BRAIN-INSPIRED COGNITIVE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE Madrid, Spain, July 14-16, 2010 www.bicsconference.org Ricardo Sanz, General Chair Sponsored by ICSC ============================================================================== BICS 2010 is a multitrack conference organised around four strongly related symposia (NC 2010, BIS 2010, CNS 2010 and MoC 2010). 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Gelepithis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ramon Gal?n, Chair of the OC Carlos Hern?ndez I?aki Navarro Manuel Rodr?guez Pascual Campoy Paloma de la Puente Adolfo Hernando Miguel Olivares Guadalupe S?nchez ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General requests: info@bicsconference.org Organization committee: oc@bicsconference.org Program committee: pc@bicsconference.org Conference website: www.bicsconference.org Conference mailist: http://lists.aslab.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/bics ============================================================================== From mylab from xs4all.nl Sun Nov 22 08:46:06 2009 From: mylab from xs4all.nl (Mervyn van Kuyen) Date: Sun Nov 22 13:01:48 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] do the brain details tour Message-ID: <4b09409e$0$22943$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Hello everyone, if you're interested in a quick tour around the brain visit: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mylab/library/brain_home/brain.htm Greetz Mervyn From kr4 from earthlink.net Sun Nov 22 10:16:30 2009 From: kr4 from earthlink.net (Kalman Rubinson) Date: Sun Nov 22 13:01:55 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] Re: do the brain details tour References: <4b09409e$0$22943$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:46:06 +0100, Mervyn van Kuyen wrote: >Hello everyone, > >if you're interested in a quick tour around the brain visit: > >http://www.xs4all.nl/~mylab/library/brain_home/brain.htm > >Greetz Interesting but lots of little errors in labelling. Kal