SNC'17 Programme

Friday, 29 September 2017


8:00	Registration \| Poster exhibition area, 8:00—10:00

9:45	Opening of the SNC'17 \| Hall II, 9:45—10:00

10:00	Symposium \| Hall II, 10:00—12:00 Deep brain stimulation: Application in adults and children with movement disorders Chair: Maja Trošt, Norbert Kovacs
	The prognosis for outcomes following DBS for children with Dystonia and other hyperkinetic movement disorders Jean Pierre-Lin
	How efficient is subthalamic deep brain stimulation in reducing dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease? Norbert Kovacs
	The effect of subthalamic deep brain stimulation on non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease Maja Trošt
	Targeting and clinical outcome of DBS in movement disorders patients Mitja Benedičič
	Personality changes after subthalamic deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease Dušan Flisar
	Parkinsonian symptoms in patients with cervical dystonia treated with bilateral pallidal deep brain stimulation Dejan Georgiev

	Symposium \| Hall III, —12:00 RNA binding proteins in neurodegenerative diseases Chair: Antonia Ratti, Francisco Baralle
	New insights into the role of TDP 43 expression, structural feature and aggregation in disease pathogenesis Francisco Baralle
	TDP-43, stress granules and response to stress in ALS patients' cells Antonia Ratti
	Drug screening in TDP-43 proteinopathies Marco Baralle
	Intranuclear RNA foci from C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansion mutation form paraspeckle-like structures Boris Rogelj

12:00	Plenary talk \| Hall I, 12:00—12:45 Peptides and reward-seeking behaviour Andrew J. Lawrence

13:00	Cellular neuroscience A

	Molecular neuroscience A

	Neuroscience methods A

	Cognitive neuroscience A

	Systems neuroscience

	Clinical neuroscience A

14:30	Symposium \| Hall III, 14:30—16:30 Novel targets and strategies to treat neurodegenerative disease Chair: Mojca Kržan
	Multiscale simulation of monoamine oxidases: from chemical physics to neurodegeneration Janez Mavri
	No guts no glory: novel treatment strategy in Parkinson’s disease Aletta Kraneveld
	Detection of dietary polyphenols and their metabolites Sabina Passamonti
	GABAergic system as a target for neuroprotection in AD model-rats Baiba Jansone

16:30	Break

17:00	Symposium \| Hall III, 17:00—19:00 Plasticity of sensory motor network: from idea to the brain computer interface Chair: Martin Rakuša
	From the idea to the reaching – activity in sensory-motor network Martin Rakuša
	Stuttering: a model of impaired integration in sensory motor network Pierpaolo Busan
	Sensory motor network – brain computer interface Piero Paolo Battaglini
	Bimeo neuro-rehabilitation Aleš Hribar

19:45	SNC'17 Social Event \| Slamič Café, 19:45

Saturday, 30 September 2017


8:00	Registration \| Poster exhibition area, 8:00—9:00

10:00	Symposium \| Hall II, 10:00—12:00 Long-term impact of early life exposures and stressors on the brain: Psychopathological dimensions of mental illnesses Chair: Gregor Majdič, Ana Počivavšek
	Long lasting effects of prenatal, postnatal and pubertal stress in animal models Gregor Majdič
	Elevated kynurenine pathway metabolism during neurodevelopment: Implications for brain and behavior Ana Počivavšek
	Permanent alteration of cortical/hippocampal glutamate and GABA neurotransmission in adult rats following gestational cannabinoid exposure Sarah Beggiato
	Are offspring of mothers exposed to the ten-day war more vulnerable for mood disorders? Liljana Šprah
	Influence of prenatal exposure to testosterone on social behavior in Valproate mouse model of autism Neža Grgurevič

	Symposium \| Hall III, —12:00 Models, technologies and materials used in neuromodulation Chair: Janez Rozman, Polona Pečlin
	Surface electromyography and its potentials in assessment of neurodegenerative diseases and stroke rehabilitation Aleš Holobar
	A model and setup for opto-thermal stimulation of isolated porcine vagus nerve Janez Rozman
	Selective electrical stimulation and recording of an isolated porcine vagus nerve Polona Pečlin
	Materials and technologies used in crafting of multi-electrode spiral cuffs for VNS Matjaž Godec
	QMC-CT, a quantitative muscle assessment that patients understand and that can get them to take-home full-body in-bed gym and FES Ugo Carraro
	Setup for experiments in focused pulsed ultrasound in translational biomedicine Dejan Križaj

12:00	AOŽ Memorial lecture \| Hall II, 12:00—12:45 Digesting the gut-immune-brain axis in brain disorders Aletta Kraneveld

13:00	History of neuroscience

	Cognitive neuroscience B

	Neuroscience methods B

	Cellular neuroscience B

	Molecular neuroscience B

	Clinical neuroscience B

14:30	Symposium \| Hall II, 14:30—16:30 Glutamate and addiction: Vulnerability traits and treatment targets Chair: Marco Leyton
	Adolescent cocaine use perturbs glutamate synaptic maturation Lucia Caffino
	Glutamate signaling in serotonin transporter knockout rats prone to cocaine addiction Judith Homberg
	Mapping mGluR5 changes from initial drug exposure to addiction: PET [11C]ABP688 studies in humans Marco Leyton
	mGlu5 receptors and extinction of drug seeking Andrew J Lawrence

	Symposium \| Hall III, —16:30 Functional brain imaging in differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative brain disorders Chair: Maja Trošt, Daniela Perani
	The PET perspective in early and differential diagnosis of dementia conditions Daniela Perani
	In vivo cholinergic basal forebrain atrophy predicts future cognitive decline in de novo PD Chesney Craig
	Structural network alterations and cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease Rok Berlot
	Automated differential diagnosis of parkinsonian syndromes using FDG-PET image analysis Tomaž Rus
	Different FDG-PET metabolic patterns in parkinsonian syndromes Maja Trošt

16:30	Best poster award & closing of the SNC'17 \| Hall II, 16:30—17:00

17:00	Break

17:30	Neuroscience & Society Dialogue \| Hall II, 17:30—19:00

Poster session

Friday, 29 September 2017


13:00	Cellular neuroscience A
CEL.01	RNA foci, transcribed from C9ORF72 expansion, form intranuclear paraspeckle-like bodies Ana Bajc Česnik
CEL.03	Lateral fluid percussion injury induces astrocytosis and microgliosis without a neuronal loss in the rat frontal cortex Petra Dolenec
CEL.05	The mechanism of folding and trafficking of the human dopamine transporter (hDAT) and its mutants associated with infantyle parkinsonism-dystonia Hafiz Muhammad Mazhar Asjad
CEL.07	Innervation of primary human skeletal muscle cells induces isoform-specific upregulation of Na+/K+-ATPase subunits Vid Jan

13:00	Clinical neuroscience A
CLI.01	Connective tissue dysplasia in young person: psychophysiological assessments and manual dexterity A. Gataullina
CLI.03	Crossed cerebellar diaschisis detected with BOLD MRI cerebrovascular reactivity Martina Sebök
CLI.05	Influence of transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the spinal cord on vegetative regulation of cardiac activity Guzel Fanisovna Khafizova

13:00	Cognitive neuroscience A
COG.01	The peculiarities of brain activation during delayed visual recognition: fMRI-study Anastasia K. Neklyudova
COG.03	Regulation of brain activity with neurofeedback in ADHD children Joanna Jarmolowska
COG.05	Acute effects of dominant or submissive body pose adoption on thermosensitivity and pain threshold Dušanka Novaković
COG.07	The influence of emotional stimuli on P3 in an »oddball« paradigm Nastja Tomat
COG.09	Comprehensive understanding of instrumental description of psychophysically elicited somatosensory (pain) perceptions Kaja Meh

13:00	Molecular neuroscience A
MOL.05	Localization of dipeptide repeat proteins and their interaction with lipid droplets in model cell lines Anja Pucer Janež
MOL.11	Protein aggregation of TRIOBP-1 in patients with schizophrenia Nicholas J. Bradshaw
MOL.13	TNIK gene and its alternative splicing regulation during neuronal differentiation Valentina Gumina
MOL.15	Proteins binding to (C4G2)n RNA repeats Mirjana Malnar
MOL.17	I-motifs and protonated hairpins forming on the anti-sense DNA d(GGCCCC)n expansions in C9ORF72 Anja Kovanda

13:00	Neuroscience methods A
MET.01	Supraspinal influence on modulation of motor evoked potentials in the leg muscles during transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the human spinal cord L.M. Bikchentaeva
MET.03	Stability and reliability of resting heart rate variability in healthy young adults Breda Podjaveršek

13:00	Systems neuroscience
SYS.01	Influence of hypogravitation on the functional state of the myoneural synapses of rat soleus muscle I.D. Lvova

Saturday, 30 September 2017


13:00	Cellular neuroscience B
CEL.02	Role of astrocytes in survival of carbon monoxide-intoxicated neuronal cells, treated with hyperbaric oxygen Klara Bulc-Rozman
CEL.04	TDP-43 expression in the parietal cortex and the hippocampus following a single traumatic brain injury in the mouse Petra Dolenec
CEL.06	An approach to study cholesterol-rich domains in the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane of pituitary lactotrophs Boštjan Rituper

13:00	Clinical neuroscience B
CLI.02	recoveriX – Brain-computer interface controlled avatar and functional electrical stimulation: clinical study for motor function rehabilitation after stroke Nensi Murovec
CLI.04	Vascular physiology of CO2: impact on cerebrovascular reactivity and neurovascular coupling C.H.B. van Niftrik

13:00	Cognitive neuroscience B
COG.04	Why accountants compromise on their fiduciary duties: fMRI evidence on the role of the human mirror neuron system Mina Ličen
COG.06	Neural coding mechanisms underlying spatial working memory Nina Purg
COG.08	Transdisciplinary approach to comprehensive explanation of psychically modulated sensory (pain) information Dejan Georgiev
COG.10	Nature of memory engrams: conserved wiring and computational logic of cell assemblies Grace E. Fox

13:00	History of neuroscience

13:00	Molecular neuroscience B
MOL.02	17β-estradiol differentially modulates ecto-5'-nucleotidase activity in the hippocampal synaptosomes of male and female rats in vitro Natasa Mitrovic
MOL.06	Phosphorylation of FUS impairs its nucleocytoplasmic shuttling Helena Motaln
MOL.10	Solving structures of ALS associated proteins Vera Župunski
MOL.12	Ibuprofen increased bilirubin neurotoxicity by interacting with albumin-bilirubin complex Ane-Mary Arčan
MOL.14	Post-ischemic administration of erythropoietin: effects on the brain damage in rats exposed to focal cerebral ischemia Jasenka Mršić-Pelčić
MOL.16	Comparison of small RNA expression in muscle tissue of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and healthy age-matched controls. Anja Kovanda

13:00	Neuroscience methods B
MET.02	The effects of muscle trapezius latent trigger point vibration on postural stability S. Sabitova