Program

May 10-11 2021

Monday, May 10

8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Opening Statements

8:45 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.

Ekat Kritikou, vice-doyenne, à la recherche et au développement, Faculté de médecine

8:50 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.

Pierre Drapeau, directeur du Département de neurosciences, Faculté de médecine

9:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Session 1 | Insular Cortex: Anatomy, Connectivity & Functions

Moderators: Karim Jerbi and Dang Nguyen

9:00 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.

Henri C. EVRARD, PhD | Max Planck Institute

Body-mind interface in the primate cortex: neuroanatomical and functional insights

9:35 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.

Philippe KAHANE, MD, PhD | Grenoble Institute Neurosciences

What did we learn with direct electrical stimulation of the insula

10:10 a.m. - 10:35 a.m.

coffee break

10:35 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

Dana SMALL, PhD | Yale University

Nutrient sensing in the human insular cortex

11:10 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Sarah N GARFINKEL, PhD | University of Sussex

Dissecting Dimensions of Interoception

11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch - Sponsors

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Poster session

2:30 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.

Session 2 | Insula and Risk: From Adapted Decision Making and Pathology

Moderators: Paul Cisek and Didier Jutras-Aswad

2:30 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.

William Kyle SIMMONS, PhD | Oklahoma State University

The Interoceptive insula: Linking What the Body Needs and the Brain Wants

3:05 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.

Alain DAGHER, MD | McGill University

Insula in addiction and obesity

3:40 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Coffee break

4:00 p.m. - 4:35 p.m.

Antoine BECHARA, PhD | University of Southern California

Role of the insula in addictive behaviors: Implications for risk perception and the opioid epidemic

4:35 p.m. - 5:10 p.m.

Bernard LE FOLL, PhD | University of Toronto

Potential of insula as a therapeutic target for addiction

Tuesday, May 11

8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Session 3 | The Insula and The Socio-Emotional Brain

Moderators: Karim Jerbi and Olivier Boucher

8:30 a.m. - 9:10a.m.

Tor D. WAGER, PhD | Dartmouth College

Divergent roles for insular subregions in pain, emotion, and cognition

9:10 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Luiz PESSOA, PhD | University of Maryland

The dynamics of aversive and appetitive processing

9:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.

Cofee break

10:10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Lucina Q. UDDIN, PhD | University of Miami

The role of the insula in the salience/midcingulo-insular network

10:50 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Fabienne PICARD, MD | University Hospitals of Geneva

Epilepsy and ecstatic experiences : the role of the insula

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch - Sponsors

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Poster session

1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Session 4 | Role of the Insula in Neuropathology

Moderators: Alain Dagher and Pierre Rainville

1:30 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.

Wilma VAN DE BERG, PhD | Amsterdam University Medical Center

Parkinson's disease and related disorders

2:05 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.

Dang NGUYEN, M.D., Ph. D., FRCPC | Université de Montréal

Insular Cortex Epilepsy

2:40 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Coffee break

3:15 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Georg NORTHOFF, MD, PhD | University of Ottawa

The insula - why it is so important for the self and its psychiatric disorders

3:50 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.

Luis GARCIA-LARREA, MD, Ph. D. | Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

One insula: two worlds in pain

4:25 p.m. - 4:35 p.m.

Closing Statement

Dang Nguyen