Brains and Behavior: Order and Disorder in the Nervous System

The 2018 Symposium on Brains & Behavior: Order & Disorder in the Nervous System explores the tremendous recent progress in neuroscience and technologies and how these advances may be used to improve brain health and address psychiatric and neurological disorders. Topics include:

- Cellular basis of neurodegeneration

- Memory systems and aging

- Neural circuit of anxiety

- Addicted brain: circuits and treatment frontiers

- Sleep and sleep disorders

- Hormonal regulation and mood disorders

- Restoring vision

- Cortico-striatal circuits in perception and action

- Deep brain stimulation for psychiatry

- Computational psychiatry

- Development of social cognition

- Brain machine interface

- New techniques for human brain manipulation