17^th Global Neuroscience Conference October 16-17, 2017 Osaka, Japan

Fu-Zen Shaw has interested in establishment of animal models of epilepsy and fibromyalgia and also provides valuable non-pharmacological interventions for ameliorating seizures through closed-loop deep brain stimulation or for enhancing wellbeing of healthy people and patients with insomnia or mild cognitive impairment through self-training of brain rhythms. Recently, he develops a neurofeedback platform to train alpha rhythm with a sham-controlled group to validate controllability, specificity and independence of the neurofeedback training. Dr. Shaw also provides convinced evidence about trained alpha rhythm on enhancement of both working memory and semantic episodic memory. This study extends our understanding on effect of trained frontoparietal alpha rhythm on episodic memory of object recognition. The global effect of trained alpha rhythm may create potential insight on boosting human wellbeing.

Epilepsy, Brain Stimulation, Fibromyalgia, Neurofeedback

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Psychiatry,Stroke, Neurology

Kah-Leong Lim obtained his Ph.D. from the Singapore Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology in 1999. Thereafter, he did his postdoctoral training at the Department of Pathology in Harvard Medical School (2000-2001), and subsequently at the Department of Neurology in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2001-2002), where he worked on the topic of Parkinson’s disease with Professor Ted Dawson. Dr. Lim is currently the Deputy Director of Research at the National Neuroscience Institute of Singapore and Director of Basic and Translational Research in the Singhealth Duke-NUS Neuroscience Academic Clinical Program. He is a member of the National Grant Review Panel (NMRC) and a regular reviewer of international grants including applications from the Welcome Trust and Medical Research Council (UK). Dr. Lim is an editor for PLoS One and Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience and a guest editor for PLoS Genetics. His research focuses on therapeutic development for Parkinson’s disease.

Parkinson’s disease, Cellular Neuroscience

Ming-Chao Huang was born in 1958, in Taipei, Taiwan. He obtained MD degree from Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, in 1984. He got his PhD degree from Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan, in 1996. He is a neurosurgeon and is currently the division Chief of Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. He is also the Associate Professor of Taipei Medical University and Central Taiwan Technological University. His clinical specialty includes spinal surgery (including degeneration and trauma), peripheral nerve surgery (including tumor surgery and nerve repair), and brain tumor surgery. His research interests are nerve root injury (including basic mechanism and surgical repair), neuropathic pain (including basic study and treatment), and brain tumor (including medical and surgical treatment).

spinal surgery, peripheral nerve surgery, brain tumor surgery

Dr. Zhu’s research aims toward finding solutions to a newly recognized challenge in treatment for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HANDs). About one-half of HIV-1-positive individuals suffer from HAND, which dramatically affects memory, learning, decision-making, planning and overall quality of life. Cocaine has been shown to exacerbate the severity of HAND. HAND is associated with HIV-1 viral proteins, which are present in the brain of HIV-1-infected patients. HIV-1 transactivator of transcription (Tat) protein--an HIV regulatory protein--is thought to inhibit neuronal communication by acting directly on the human dopamine transporter, a membrane protein in the brain responsible for pumping the dopamine back into the cytosol and terminating dopamine signaling during neurotransmission. Dr. Zhu’s project is to investigate how cocaine and Tat work to create binders that derail neuronal communication in the brain. The ultimate goal is to develop neuroprotective drugs and help HIV patients recover their neurological function.

HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

Liudmyla D. Popova has PhD degree, degree of doctor of biology sciences, the title of Biochemistry Department Professor. She is presently Biochemistry Department professor in Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine. The field of scientific interests is the study of the aggression development mechanisms. Based on her own researchresults and analysis of literary data, she believes that in order to understand the mechanisms of aggressiveness formation in human it is important to study the features of the correlations between personality traits and sex hormones, stress hormones in different populations. When interpreting the results, populational differences in personality traits should be taken into account. Oxana A. Nakonechnaya has PhD degree, degree of doctor of medicine, the title of Biochemistry Department Professor. She is presently Head of Biochemistry Department in Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine. Irina M. Vasylyeva has PhD degree. She is presently Biochemistry Department assistant in Kharkiv National Medical University.

Biochemistry, hormone-behavior interactions.

Dr. Sunil Dhungel is presently working as an Associate Professor Department of Clinical Physiology, College of Medicine ,Nepalese Army Institute of Health Sciences (NAIHS), Bhandarkhal, Sanobharyang, Kathmandu, Nepal .He has finished his Masters in Human Physiology from of Department Basic and Clinical Physiology, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal .He obtained his PhD in, Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Program, from Department of Physiology Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.He did his postdoctoral studies in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Program, from Department of Physiology Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan .Currently he is the Vice President of South Asian Association of Physiologist .He is one of the Founder member, Physiology Society of Nepal (PSN) .He was also a Fellow Japanese Society for Behavioural Neuroendocrinology (JSBN, Japan, Past member), Physiological Society of Japan, International Neuroendocrine Federation , Founder and Current President, Neuroscience Society of Nepal (NSN), Chief Organizer, IBRO/APRC Neuroscience Associate School Nepal.

Medical Physiology,Human Physiology,Behavioral Neuroendocrinology