Morning session I Migraine Aura: window to brain hyperexcitability Chair: Markus Dahlem 09:00 - 09:40 Frances Wilkinson: Hypersensitivity in migraine: Does this imply cortical hyperexcitability? 09:45 - 10:00 Hugh R. Wilson: Neural Network Simulations of Aura Characteristics 10:05 - 10:40 Coffee break Morning session II EEG and Hyper-synchronization Chair: Jürgen Kurths 10:40 - 10:55 Marina de Tommaso: News inside hyper-synchronization pattern in migraine. (1) Clinical 11:00 - 11:15 Sebino Stramaglia: News inside hyper-synchronization pattern in migraine. (2) Techniques aspects 11:20 - 12:20 Moderated discussions Eckehard Schöll & Heinz G. Schuster Neural control and new therapeutic approaches 12:20 - 14:00 Lunch breakAfternoon session I Spatial aspects I: Imaging spreading depression Chair: Eckehard Schöll 14:00 - 14:15 Michael Müller: Intrinsic optical signals: light scattering changes creating the optical signature of spreading depression 14:20 - 14:35 Vera de Lima: Optical profiles and spread patterns of excitation waves and excitotoxic response observed in the in vitro retina. 14:40 - 14:55 Rudolf Graf: Imaging cortical spreading depression in experimental ischemia 15:00 - 15:15 Frank Richter: Spreading depression and anoxic depolarization in adult rat brainstem - electrophysiology and their in fluences on heart rate, blood pressure and local blood flow 15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break & Discussion Afternoon session II Spatial aspects II: SD propagation pattern Chair: Rudolf Graf 16:20 - 16:35 Markus Dahlem: Spreading depression wave patterns in two spatial dimensions: A new paradigm? 16:40 - 16:55 Frank Starmer: Initiating a propagating wave in an excitable media 17:00 - 17:15 Harald Engel: Shape and velocity of stabilized wave segments in excitable media 17:20 - 17:35 Lutz Schimansky-Geier: Waves in heterogeneous neural tissues 17:40 - 17:50 Sebino Stramaglia: Concluding remarks: Announcement Migraine Symposium in Bari 2010 Previous Day | Home |