Scientific Program
You can download the full program here
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)
Contact Us

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CASIA)
No.95, Zhong Guan Cun East Road, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China
Tel: 010-6265 9278 (Ms. Jingtao Lv, jtlv@nlpr.ia.ac.cn This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
010-82614462 (Ms. Gangqin Zhang, gangqin.zhang@ia.ac.cn This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )