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 5
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 8
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