A View into Madness: Sensory Perception and Schizophrenia

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Date 30.06.2014 01.07.2014
Location
CHUV Maternity Auditorium / EPFL CM4 Auditorium
Category Conferences - Seminars
Monday, June 30th – Tuesday, July 1st
CHUV-EPFL


Kindly register for this workshop no longer than Monday June 23rd on: http://inform.epfl.ch/?form=workshop_schizo

PROGRAM
June 30th / CHUV Maternity Auditorium


15.00  Steve Silverstein (Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, USA): Disorganization in perception, cognition, and behavior: Implications for understanding schizophrenia

15.45  Peter Uhlhass (University of Glasgow, England): Visual Dysfunctions in Schizophrenia: From Basic Symptoms to Oscillations

Break 

16.45  Daniel Javitt (Columbia University, USA): Pathway-specific and pathway-independent deficits of visual dysfunction in schizophrenia: Lessons from the ERD

17.30  Phillip Sterzer (Charité, Germany): The formation and maintenance of delusions: A hierarchical predictive coding account

PROGRAM
July 1st / EPFL CM4 Auditorium


9.30   Anne Giersch (Inserm, France): Elementary time disturbances in schizophrenia: Impairment at looking forward? Causes and consequences
10.15  Wolfgang Tschacher (University of Bern, Switzerland): Michotte-like causality perception in schizophrenia
11.00  Eka Chkonia (Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia): Backward masking, Endophenotypes, and the Cholinergic system

Lunch

13.15   Micah Murray (CHUV, Switzerland): Probing the integrity of sensory processes in early-stage psychosis 
14.00   Tonia Rihs (UNIGE, Switzerland): Alterations in auditory and visual processing in 22q11 deletion syndrome: A group at high risk for schizophrenia 
14.45  Christine Mohr (UNIL, Switzerland): Basic visual functions in schizotypy: Does it relate to higher cognitive functions?

Break

16.00  Bogdan Draganski (CHUV, Switzerland): Brain anatomy patterns of extremes of normal behaviour - on the  example of schizotypy 
16.45  Michael Herzog (EPFL, Switzerland): What can vision tell us about disease?
17.30  Open End Discussion: Vision & Schizophrenia

Practical information

  • Informed public
  • Registration required

Organizer

  • Prof. Michael Herzog, Prof. Micah Murray and Dr. Albulena Shaqiri

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