Modeling Migraine

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workshop

Wednesday, July 22

8:30 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 9:20 Markus Dahlem: Welcome & opening remarks

Morning session I
Ion dynamics during migraine

Chair: Hugh R. Wilson

09:20 - 10:00 George Somjen: Why simulate SD? Empirical data and the search for their explanation
10:05 - 10:20 Wytse Wadman: Modeling Ionic Mechanisms in Spreading Depression
10:25 - 11:00 Coffee break

Morning session II
Potassium dynamics & excitability

Chair: Uwe Heineman

11:00 - 11:15 Ernest Barreto: Ion concentration dynamics and neuronal excitability
11:20 - 11:35 Gerson Florence: Effects of depressed K+ currents caused by high [K+]o on the different stages of spreading depression
11:40 - 11:55 Flavio Fröhlich: Potassium dynamics: new insights on an old topic
12:00 - 12:15 Tony Gardner-Medwin: Spatial buffering of K+ in relation to SD models

12:20 - 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 - 14:45 Moderated discussions Jens Dreier
                      Spreading depression, hypoxic depolarization, peri-infarct depolarization etc.:
                      Processes of the same nature, need for a generic term?

Afternoon session I
Cellular and membrane dynamics

Chair: Jens Dreier
14:45 - 15:00 Oscar Herreras: Polarization gradients and current loops within single cells raise the DC potential in spreading depression: from single channels to macroscopic fields.
15:05 - 15:20 Thomas Heimburg: Action potentials as electromechanical pulses
15:25 - 15:40 Rubem C.A. Guedes: Effects of AC- and DC-electrical brain stimulation on CSD

15:45 - 16:45 Coffee break & Discussion


Afternoon session II
Functional abnormalities in channel mutations

Chair: Alfred Lehmenkühler
16:45 - 17:00 Daniela Pietrobon: Enhanced excitatory transmission at cortical synapses as the basis for facilitated spreading depression in CaV2.1 knockin migraine mouse models.
17:05 - 17:20 Thomas Friedrich: Functional abnormalities due to Na,K-ATPase 2-subunit mutations identified in familial hemiplegic migraine type 2.
17:25 - 17:40 Gianluca Coppola: New approaches to analysis of high frequency somatosensory oscillations in healthy subjects and migraine patients.


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