Program

 

 

November 29th, 2015 

 

09:00 – 09:15 am 

Opening Ceremony 

Morning Session 

Chair: Dr. Márcio Flávio Dutra Moraes - UFMG/MG 

09:20 – 10:20 am 

Opening lecture: Dr. Philip Johnson – IU/USA 

Title: Role of the Orexin Hypothalamic System in Panic-Associated Behavior and Physiology 

10:20 – 11:00 am 

Coffee Break 

11:00 – 11:30 am 

Lecture: Dr. Grace Schenatto – UFMG/MG 

Title: Social isolation and neuropsychiatric disorders 

11:30 – 12:30 pm 

Oral Presentations 

11:30 – 11:45 am 

Anxiety-like behavior in HFD-obese rat is due to an impairment on inhibitory GABAergic tonus within the Dorsomedial Hypothalamus 

11:45 – 12:00 pm 

Evaluation of postnatal stress and L-Dopa treatment in the development of mice behavior 

12:00 – 12:15 pm 

Object recognition memory deficit and depressive-like behavior caused by chronic ovariectomy can be transitorily recovered by the acute activation of hippocampal estrogen receptors 

12:15 – 12:30 pm 

Acute deep brain stimulation of the dorsal region of the dorsal raphe nucleus impairs elevated T-maze avoidance responses 

12:30 – 02:30 pm 

Lunch 

Afternoon Session 

Chair: Dr. Rodrigo Cunha Alvim de Menezes – UFOP/MG 

02:30 – 03:10 pm 

Lecture: Hélio Zangrossi – USP/SP 

Title: Serotonergic control of panic-related defense behaviors in the dorsomedial hypothalamus

03:20 – 03:50 pm 

Lecture: Bruno Rezende Souza – UFMG/MG 

Title: Dopamine, neurodevelopment and behavior 

04:00 – 05:00 pm 

Plenary Lecture: Dr. Anantha Shekhar – IU/USA 

Title: Translational modeling and Therapeutics approaches to innate and learned fear disorders 

Welcome Reception 

Poster Session 

Chair: Dr. Renato Nery Soriano – UFJF/MG 

05:00 – 8:00 pm

 

November 30th, 2015 

 

Morning Session 

Chair: Dr. Deoclécio Alves Chianca Júnior - UFOP/MG 

09:30 – 10:10 am 

Lecture: Dr. Regina Celia Spadari – UNIFESP/SP 

Title: Are stress and anxiety always related? 

10:20 – 11:00 am 

Lecture: Marco Fontes – UFMG/MG 

Title: Angiotensin peptides, anxiety and emotional stress 

11:00 – 12:00 am 

Lecture: Dr. Mark Chapleau – The University of Iowa/USA 

Title: Novel Molecular Targets for Protection in Neuroinflammatory Disorders 

12:00 – 02:00 pm 

Lunch 

Afternoon Session 

Chair: Dr. Luiz Gonzaga da Silva Júnior - UFJF/MG 

02:00 – 02:30 pm 

Lecture: Dr. Milena Barros - UNIFESP/SP 

Title: Neurobiology of Anxiety: the role of the medial amygdale

02:30 – 03:15 pm 

Oral Presentations 

02:30 – 02:45 pm 

Enriched environment before, but not after consolidation, enhances social memory persistence 

02:45 – 3:00 pm 

Metabotropic glutamate receptor type 5 interacts with endocannabinoid signaling in the modulation of anxiety in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex of rats 

3:00 – 3:15 pm 

Role of hydrogen sulfide in anxiolytic-like effect in rats exposed and re-exposed to elevated plus maze and open field test 

03:15 – 04:00 pm 

Coffee Break

04:00 – 05:00 pm 

Plenary Lecture- Dr. Frederico Graeff – USP/SP 

Title: Serotonin-opioid interaction in the periaqueductal gray and panic disorder 

05:00-5:15 pm 

Closing Ceremony