Program
Morning session, Aug 8, 2022
HKT 9:00-9:10 AM (JST 10:00-10:10)
Opening remarks & Welcome speech
Prof. Masahisa Katsuno
Director, Brain & Mind Research Center, Department of Neurology, Nagoya University, Japan
HKT 9:10-10:00 AM (JST 10:10-11:00)
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Prof. Satoshi Maesawa
Department of Neurosurgery, Nagoya University, Japan
Keynote Speaker 1: Prof. Tetsuya Iidaka
Brain & Mind Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan
Title: Social and emotional cognition: role of amygdala in humans
HKT 10:00-11:30 AM (JST 11:00-12:30)
Topic 1. Aging and dementia session
Chair: Prof. Fan-pei Gloria Yang
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
Speaker 1: Dr. Boon Lead Tee
Assistant Adjunct Professor in Neurology, UCSF Memory and Aging Center, USA
Title: The impact of Language typology in Primary Progressive Aphasia
Speaker 2: Dr. Adit Friedberg
Department of Neurology, UCSF Memory and Aging Center, USA
Title: Why do patients with frontotemporal dementia become visually artistic?
Speaker 3: Dr. Manson Cheuk-Man Fong
Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
Title: Brain age and dementia: a review and exploration
HKT 11:30-1:00PM (JST 12:30-2:00PM)
Lunch Break
PM session, Aug 8, 2022
HKT 1:00-1:50PM (JST 2:00-2:50PM)
Keynote Lecture
Chair: Asso Prof. Atsunobu Suzuki
Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Keynote Speaker 2: Prof. Tatia Mei-Chun Lee
Professor of Psychological Science and Clinical Psychology, May Professor in Neuropsychology,
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Title: The pons is a significant neural correlate of affective processing
HKT 2:00-3:30PM (JST 3:00-4:30PM)
Topic 2. Emotional brain and cognitive brain
Chair: Prof. S.H. Annabel Chen
Director of the Centre for Research & Development in Learning, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Speaker 1: Dr. Yuko Okamoto
Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan
Title: Development of the neural basis for visual body perception and its relation to autistic individuals.
Speaker 2: Asst Prof. Alicia Goodwill
Physical Education and Sports Science Academic Group, National Institute of Education (NIE),
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Title: Neuroimaging meta-analytic methods in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - implications for neuro-education.
Speaker 3: Dr. Ha Thi Thanh Huong
Brain Health Lab, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Title: The effect of mindfulness training on negative emotion state and EEG signal for healthy young adults.
HKT 3:30-4:30PM (JST 4:30-5:30PM)
Oral session (selected from the poster session, 15 min each)
Chair: Dr. Eric Tatt Wei Ho
Center for Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research,Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
Speaker 1: Matthew King-Hang Ma
Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Title: Disentangling broad-band EEG microstates into frequency-specific features of aging
Speaker 2: Tatsuhiro Terada
Department of Biofunctional Imaging, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan
Title: Mitochondrial dysfunction underlies neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease: A PET study
Speaker 3: Wu Yun Hsiang
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Title: Verbal Training improved the white matter integrity and reading performance
Speaker 4: My Nguyen
Faculty of Biology - Biotechnology, University of Science, Vietnam
Title: Investigate brain atrophy and plasma protein patterns for the stratification among Mild Cognitive Impairment patients
HKT 4:30-4:45PM (JST 5:30-5:45PM)
Closing remarks & Member discussion
Prof. Toshiharu Nakai
BrainConnects Coordinator, Osaka University, Japan
Online Poster Presentation (On-demand)
Presented on the GatherTown platform for one week: Aug 8-15, 2022