| 13:00 - 16:00 | Registration |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Welcome addresses: Director of the Baltic Summer School Michael Illert, Kiel University Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen Ralf Hemmingsen Dean of the Medical Faculty, Lund University Jan Nilsson Representative of the Government To be determined Organizers in Copenhagen: Welcome and further information |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Key note speaker: Professor Jes Olesen The burden of brain diseases in Europe - a challenge for clinical and basic research initiatives |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Reception |
| Introduction and summary of clinical symptoms and definitions | Birte Glenthøj, DK |
| Current research trends - an overview | Daniel Weinberger, USA |
| The neurodevelopmental hypothesis in the era of genetic enlightenment | Daniel Weinberger, USA |
| Schizophrenia Genes: Susceptibility to what | Robin Murray, UK |
| Novel antipsychotics and underlying mechanisms of action | Torgny Svensson, S |
| Round Table | |
| Genes, Development and the Monoamine-hypothesis | Introduction by Kjeld Møllgård, DK (including Kari Stefansson, IS in addition to the today's speakers) |
| Introduction and current research trends - an overview | Ole Kjærulff, DK |
| Transgenic mouse models for cerebral cortex development and schizophrenia pathogenesis | Niels Aagaard Jensen, DK |
| Genes, neurotrophins and neuropsychiatric disorders | Ereo Castrén, FIN |
| Blood of the Vikings: The hunt for disease genes in the Icelandic population | Kari Stefansson, IS |
| Round Table |
| Introduction and current research trends - an overview | David Woldbye, DK |
| Transmitters, receptor systems and gene expression in drug dependence | Walter Zieglgänsberger, D |
| Abuse-related effects of cocaine in rodents: roles of dopaminergic and related systems | Barak Caine, US |
| Nicotine addiction and the dopaminergic reward pathway | Torgny Svensson, S |
| Clinical alcohol research today and in the future | Jakob Ulrichsen, DK |
| Round table |
| Introduction and Current research trends - an overview | Lars Vedel Kessing, DK |
| Depression and the immune system | Brian Leonard, Ireland |
| Mouse models of depression in the post genomic era: Recent developments and future needs | John F. Cryan, CH |
| Electroconvulsive seizures and neurogenesis | Anders Tingström, S |
| Round table |
| Introduction and Current research trends an overview | David Woldbye, DK |
| Current research trends concerning the nosology of the epilepsies | Peter Wolf, DK |
| Synaptic networks in experimental temporal lobe epilepsy | JG Jefferys, UK |
| The role of neurotrophic factors and neuropeptides in temporal lobe epilepsy | Merab Kokaia, S |
| Patophysiology of status epilepticus | Uwe Heinemann, D |
| Round table |
| Introduction | Peter M Andersen, S |
| What is ALS? Clinical Symtoms, Diagnosis, Neurophysiology | Markus Weber, CH |
| Neuropathology and neuropathogenesis of ALS | Paul Ince, UK |
| On the origin of ALS: Genetics, soccer, war and the environment | Peter M Andersen, S |
| Treatment of ALS incl. Clinical Trials | Markus Weber, CH |
| Stem Cells and ALS: Is there a future? | Vincenzo Silani, I |
| Round table |
| The PolyQ diseases - Introduction and current trends | Lis Hasholt, DK |
| Clinical and molecular aspects of the hereditary cerebellar ataxias | Jørgen E. Nielsen, DK |
| The mechanisms of PolyQ diseases | Kenneth Fischbeck, USA |
| Mouse models for Huntington's disease | Maria Björkqvist, S |
| Application of microarray technology to experimental neurology | Sergey Anisimov, S |
| Round table |
| Introduction and current research trends | Per Soelberg Sørensen, DK |
| Genetic epidemiology of multiple sclerosis | George C. Ebers, UK |
| How the brain repairs itself? A new immunobiological view of MS pathogenesis | Gianvito Martino, I |
| Recent advances in our understanding of MS immunology and the bases of immunomodulatory therapy | Hans-Peter Hartung, D |
| New perspectives in MS therapy | Ludwig Kappos, CH |
| Round table |
| Welcome and introduction | Jens Bo Nielsen, DK |
| Locomotion in the adult cat | Hans Hultborn, DK |
| The C3-C4 propriospinal system for reaching and food taking | Bror Alstermark, S |
| Spinal cord function in man | Jens Bo Nielsen, DK |
| Mouse models: Receptor mutations for the glycine receptor | Cord-Michael Becker, D |
| Hyperekplexia - startle & stiffness | Gert van Dijk, Leiden, NL |
| Hereditary spastic paraparesis | Jørgen E. Nielsen, DK |
| Plateau potentials in motoneurons and development of spasticity | Hans Hultborn, DK |
| General discussion | |
| Changes in spinal reflex transmission in various forms of clinical spasticity | Jens Bo Nielsen / Clarissa Crone, DK |
| Plasticity in the rat spinal cord | Jens Schouenborg, S (reply pending) |
| Spinal reflex plasticity and motor learning | Jonathan Wolpaw, USA |
| Changes in transmission in the C3-C4 propriospinal system following spinal cord injury | Lars-Gunnar Pettersson, S |
| General discussion |
| Evaluation of spinal cord function in spinal cord injured patients | Peter Ellaway, UK |
| Cell transplantation for spinal cord repair: advantages and limitations | John Riddell, Scotland |
| Glia transplantation for repair of the injured adult spinal cord | Martin Oudega, USA |
| Introduction and overview, with special emphasis on degeneration / regeneration | Christian Krarup, DK |
| A mechanism for axonal degeneration and strategy for axonal protection | Ken Smith, UK |
| Factors that influence nerve generation | Christian Krarup, DK |
| The specificity of nerve regeneration (preferential reinnervation) | Roger Madison, USA |
| Recovery of function and structure after regeneration | Mihai Moldovan, DK |
| Hand function following peripheral nerve generation | Göran Lundborg, S |
| Final discussion | |
| Symposium dinner |