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May 10-11 2021
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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