SNS2005
3rd International Meeting
STEROIDS AND NERVOUS SYSTEM
February 13-17, 2005 Villa Gualino,TORINO, Italy
February 13
Satellite symposium
NEUROPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF STEROIDS IN THE SPINAL CORD AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Satellite symposium
STEROID HORMONE REGULATION OF NEUROPEPTIDE Y SYSTEM
19 Open Ceremony
February 14
Symposium: Synthesis and new interactions
-Garcia-Segura (Spain) Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein in the brain
-Papadopoulos V (USA) Peripheral benzodiazepine receptors and neurosteroid biosynthesis in neurodegeneration
-Kawato S (JAPAN) Local synthesis of estrogens and androgens by P450 enzymes in adult hippocampal neurons: Essential for rapid nongenomic action
-Mani S (USA) Signaling mechanisms in progesterone- neurotransmitter interactions
-Rune GM (GERMANY) Hippocampal synapses depend on hippocampal estrogen synthesis
Main Lecture
Balthazart J. (Belgium) Rapid changes in the production and behavioral action of estrogens
Symposium: Non classical mechanism
-Maurice T (FRANCE) The sigma-1 receptor as a target for the rapid effects of neuroactivesteroids
-Henderson LP (USA) Anabolic androgenic steroids: modulation of GABA-A receptor expression and function
-Don Carlos L. (USA) Novel cellular phenotypes and subcellular sites for androgen and estrogen action in the developing and adult rat forebrain
-Morrow AL (USA) Perinatal neurosteroid levels influence GABAergic interneuron localization and cortical function in adult rats
-Belelli D (UK) Neuroactive steroids and inhibitory neurotransmission: mechanism of action and physiological relevance
February 15
Symposium: Neuroactive steroids and mental health: basic understanding of steroid action
-Veliskova J (USA) The role of estrogens in seizures and epilepsy: bad guys or good guys?
-Behl C (GERMANY) Estrogens against Alzheimers?: Estrogen as neuroprotective hormone
-Dorsa DM (USA) Non classical effects of estrogens and neuroprotection
-Lacreuse A (USA) Estrogens effects on cognitive and motor function in young and aged rhesus monkeys
- Marchetti B (Italy) Neuroactive Steroids and Neuroprotection: Glia Dictates Resistance versus Vulnerability to Neurodegeneration
Main Lecture:
Wise P. (USA) Estrogen therapy: Does it help or hurt the adult and aging brain? Insights derived from animal models
Symposium: Neuroactive steroids and mental health: Clinical studies
-Janowsky JS (USA) The effects of sex steroids on cognitive aging in men and women
-Sherwin BB (CANADA) Estrogen and Cognitive Ageing in Women
-Maki PM (USA) (Hormone Therapy and Brain Function: Is there a critical period for neuroprotection?
-Henderson VW (USA) Ovarian Steroids and Dementia
-Rupprecht R (GERMANY) Neurosteroids as modulators of depression and anxiety
February 16
Symposium: Corticosteroid effects and stress
Russell J (UK) Neurosteroids attenuate neuroendocrine stress responses in pregnancy
-Piazza PV (France) The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) as a molecular substrate of vulnerability to drugs of abuse
-Meijer OC (The Netherlands) Coactivator and corepressor proteins: mediators of corticosteroid action in the brain
-Roozendaal B (USA) Brain mechanisms underlying stress and glucocorticoid effects on distinct cognitive processes
-Reddy DS (USA) Physiological role of the neuroactive steroid THDOC in stress-sensitive conditions
February 17
Symposium: New perspectives in sexual differentiation
- Simerly RB(USA) Estrogen Receptor Dependent Axon Targeting in the Limbic Forebrain
-Forger NG (USA) Cell Death and Sexual Differentiation
-Fusani L (Italy) Steroid induced masculinization of song and the neural song system in adult songbirds
-De Vries GJ (USA) Sexual differentiation of central vasopressin and vasotocin systems among vertebrates: different mechanisms, similar endpoints.
Main Lecture:
Rissman EF (USA) Genetic models for the study of gonadal steroid dependent behaviors
Symposium: Steroid-induced plasticity
- MacLusky NJ (USA) Gonadal hormones and CA1 spine synapse density
- Mong JA (USA) The role of estradiol- responsive astrocytes in amino acid neurotransmission: implication for neuroplasticity and neuroprotection
- Parducz A (Hungary) Estradiol-induced synaptic remodelling: functional consequences
- Panzica G.C. (Italy) Gonadal hormones modulation of central nitrinergic systems
- Jordan C. (USA) Mechanisms of steroid-induced plasticity