Where:

Salle du Conseil, Université Paris Descartes, 12 rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris

Organizers:

J. Gervain (Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, LPP, CNRS – Paris Descartes), P. Gressens (Neuroprotection des atteintes au cerveau en développement, NACD, INSERM – Paris Diderot), T. Jay and M-­O. Krebs (Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, CPN, INSERM – Paris Descartes), C. Meunier (Centre de Neurophysique, Physiologie et Pathologie, CNPP, CNRS – Paris Descartes).

Program:

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9:00-­9:30 Breakfast and Welcome Address

• Claude Meunier (Director of INC), Jacques Epelbaum (Director of CPN) and Pierre Gressens (Director of NACD)

9:30-­10:30

• Keynote Lecture by Yehezkel Ben Ari (Institut de Neurobiologie de la
  Méditerranée) : Birth and Neuro-­Archeology of Autism, Introduced by Judit Gervain (LPP)

10:30-­12:30 Session Inflammation and Brain Maturation

Chair : Etienne Audinat, Neurophysiologie et Nouvelles Microscopies, INSERM – Paris Descartes

• Urs Meyer (ETH, Zürich) : Priming of Neurodevelopmental Disorders by In Utero Immune Challenge
• Pierre Gressens (Paris Diderot) : Impact of Perinatal Neuroinflammation on Brain Development and Function
• Short communications
  • Juliette Van Steenwinckel (NACD) Role of microglial Wnt pathway in perinatal
    inflammation-induced white matter injury
  • Betty Freret-Hodara (Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS – Université Paris
    Diderot) Cortical progenitors adapt their mode of division to rescue neuronal loss even
    upon major embryonic injuries.
  • Vincent Degos (NACD and Département d’Anesthésie Réanimation, Groupe
    Hospitalier Pitié-­Salpêtrière, Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Role of peri-­operative
    inflammation in acquired cognitive dysfunction and in acute brain injuries
    sensitization.
  • Paola Squarzoni (Brain Development and Plasticity, IBENS, Ecole Normale
    Supérieure – Inserm – CNRS) Microglia modulate the wiring of the embryonic forebrain

12:30-­14:00 Lunch

14:00-­16:00 Session Neurodevelopment and Autism

Chair : Richard Delorme, Génétique humaine et Fonctions cognitives, CNRS – Paris Diderot

• Anna Remington (UCL, London) : The Autism Gift? Increased Perceptual Capacity in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Sylvie Tordjmann (Paris Descartes) : Melatonin and Autism
• Short communications
  • Carline Bernard (LPP), Auditory and Speech Perception in Individuals With Autism: the Role of Prosody
  • Sylvie Chokron (LPP) Neurocognitive approach of Autism
  • François Darchen (Laboratoire de Neurophotonique CNRS – Paris Descartes) mTOR as a potential biomarker of autism spectrum disorders.
  • Carole Levenes (CNPP), The role of the Cerebellum in Autism : Reappraisal of a causal relationship.

16:00-­16:30 Coffee break

16:30-­18:30 Session Schizophrenia and Drug Abuse

Chair : Carole Levenes, CNPP, CNRS – Paris Descartes

• Peter Uhlhaas (University of Glasgow) : Schizophrenia, Brain Development and Neural Oscillations : Perspectives from Magnetoencephalography
• Marie‐Odile Krebs (Paris Descartes) : Schizophrenia, a Cognitive Developmental Disorder ?
• Short communications
  • Rebecca Piskorowski (Laboratoire de Physiologie Cérébrale, CNRS – Paris Descartes), Age-­dependant changes in hippocampal area CA2 in a mouse model of schizophrenia.
  • Boris Chaumette (CPN), Methylomic analysis of conversion to psychosis.
  • Maxime Teremetz (CPN) Behavioral and modeling evidence for altered motor inhibition and motor noise in schizophrenia.

18:30-­19:00 Conclusion and Refreshments