Program (tentative), April 13

8:00

Invited Speech-7

"Signals & Systems of Working Memory"
Alan Gevins	San Francisco Brain Research Institute & SAM Technology,USA

Chair: Yoshihiko Koga
(Kyorin University, Japan)

8:40

Invited Speech-8

Tissue Viability assessed by MRI
Leif Ostergaard	Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Chair: Peter Wong
(UBC Faculty of Medicine, Canada)

9:20

Invited Speech-9

"Mapping Distributed Sources of Cortical Rhythms in Mild Alzheimer Disease. A Multi-Centric EEG Study"
Claudio Babiloni	University of Rome " La Sapienza", Italy

Chair: Toshihiko Kinoshita
(Kansai Medical University, Japan)

10:00

Invited Speech-10

"Structural and functional abnormalities of the auditory cortex in schizophrenia"
Kiyoto Kasai	University of Tokyo, Japan

Chair: Claudio Babiloni
(University of Rome " La Sapienza", Italy)

10:40

Coffee Break

11:00

Invited Speech-11

"Converging evidence from brain imaging studies of general intelligence."
Con Stough	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Chair: Noriko Tsuru
(Miyazaki Medical College, Japan)

11:40

Invited Speech-12


Gregory McCarthy	DUNC Brain Imaging & Analysis Center

Chair: Bin He
(University of Minnesota, USA)

12:20

Luncheon seminar-2

"Auditory functional imaging with silent MRI system"
Morihiro Sugishita	Institute of Brain and Blood Vessels, Mihara Memorial Hospital, Japan

"Assessments of Cognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia Using functional MRI and LORETA"
Eiji Kirino	Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan

Chair: Masafumi Nakagawa
(Mitsuwadai General Hospital, Japan)

13:20

Invited Speech-13

"Dipole source localization of epileptic discharges in EEG and MEG"
Hiroshi Otsubo	The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada

Chair: Hisaki Ozaki
(Ibaraki University, Japan)

14:00

Invited Speech-14

"Localization of Impaired Cortical Neurons by EEG Power Fluctuation Analysis"
Toshimitsu Musha	Brain Functions Lab., Inc., Japan

Chair: Alan Gevins
(San Francisco Brain Research Institute & SAM Technology,USA)

14:00

Oral Session

16:00 -16:20

"Hearing & Language I"(14:40 - 16:00)
Chair: Tsuneya Nakajima
(Tokyo Dental College Ichikawa General Hospital)

Coffee Break

"Hearing & Language II"(16:20 - 17:20)
Chair: Kimitaka Kaga
(University of Tokyo, Japan)

"Multimodal Integration"(17:20 - 18:00)
Chair: Andreas Ioannides
(The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan)

18:00

Break

18:30

Congress Dinner

20:30

note: Poster Sessions wil be concurrently held in the afternoon