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Network Neuroscience: Going from Nodes to Edges

by prof. Olaf Sporns, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University

When: Jan 28th, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Where: Zoom meeting

Lecture recording: you can find the recording on PNC mediaspace page.

Abstract: It is said that complexity lies between order and disorder. In physiology, complexity issues are being considered with increased emphasis. Of crucial importance in the medical setting, pathological activity has been associated with low variability/complexity. In the case of the nervous system, it is well known that excessive synchronization is connected with pathologies such as epilepsy and Parkinson disease. However, brain rhythms and neural synchronization are also crucial for perception and cognition, so it is clear that either too much or not enough synchronization can lead to dysfunctional brain states.

Arianna Menardi awarded a “Best Poster”

The “Padova Neuroscience Center-PNC” is glad to inform that one of our PhD Students, Arianna Menardi, has been recently awarded for her presentations during a Conference.

 

Arianna Menardi won a Poster Award with her presentation “Network-targeted TMS stimulation via individualized target selection: a new route toward enhanced reliability”, during the “Transcranial Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop- II Edition” organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Science- CIMeC (https://event.unitn.it/tbs-cnw/).

 

Miriam Celli and Tommaso Volpi awarded a prize

The “Padova Neuroscience Center-PNC” is glad to inform that two of our PhD Students, Miriam Celli and Tommaso Volpi, have been recently awarded for their presentations during two Conferences.

Miriam Celli won the “SIPF Youth Award” as Best Scientific Contribution with her presentation, called “Resting-State EEG Signatures of Visual Exploration Styles”, during the XVIII Conference of the Società Italiana di Psicofisiologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive

 

Tommaso Volpi won the “Gamma Prize 2020” for the Best oral proffered talk, with his presentation called: “The negative relationship between brain metabolism and its network dynamics: stability requires more energy”, during the Pet is Wonderful 2020’s Conference.

Prof. Corbetta among Highly Cited Researchers

Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers – the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2020, fewer than 6,200, or about 0.1%, of the world’s researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, have earned this exclusive distinction.

See the full list here

Brainhack Diversity. Inter-individual variability in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: signal or noise?

Brainhack Global “in Padova” 2020

Title: Brainhack Diversity. Inter-individual variability in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: signal or noise?

When: December 14th to 16th, 2020
Where: the internet, wherever it lies

Organizers: Patrizia Bisiacchi, Giorgia Cona, Davide Poggiali, Antonino Vallesi.

 Brainhack events bring together brain enthusiasts from a variety of backgrounds to build relationships, learn from one another, and collaborate on projects related to the neurosciences [1].
Participants can bring their own dataset, propose a project, and recruit a team of collaborators on site. Access to open online databases of MRI images will be also available during the three days, for new creative ideas to be tested.

Information content in synchronized networks in normal and pathological brain states

by prof. Ramón Guevara Erra, DFA – Dept. of Physics and Astronomy – Padova

When: Nov 17th, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Where: Zoom meeting

Abstract: It is said that complexity lies between order and disorder. In physiology, complexity issues are being considered with increased emphasis. Of crucial importance in the medical setting, pathological activity has been associated with low variability/complexity. In the case of the nervous system, it is well known that excessive synchronization is connected with pathologies such as epilepsy and Parkinson disease. However, brain rhythms and neural synchronization are also crucial for perception and cognition, so it is clear that either too much or not enough synchronization can lead to dysfunctional brain states.

PNC Brain Day – Sept. 25

When: September 25th, 2020

Where: Aula Ippolito Nievo – Cortile Antico, Palazzo del Bo – Padova

The Padua Neuroscience Center is a unique multidisciplinary environment that integrates many different scientific backgrounds with the common effort to understand the brain mechanisms. In this scenario, sharing scientific ideas and technical expertise represents a crucial and fundamental step to establish collaborative networks and to draft powerful scientific plans.

The PNC Brain Day 2020 is the opportunity for the PIs:

  1. To get to know each other in a series of short seminars and round tables;
  2. To contribute to the identification of cross-platform research lines characterizing the PNC scientific plan;
  3. To render PNC a unique and competitive research unit.

Prof. Semenza enters the Academia Europaea

Prof. Carlo Semenza has been recently admitted as a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea.

The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages in the aforesaid subjects in Europe.

Academia Europaea is a European, non-governmental association acting as an Academy. Our members are scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research.