Satellite Symposia

Satellite Symposia will be held Saturday, April 17, 2010 at the Hilton Montréal Bonaventure Hotel in Montréal, Canada. For information about a Satellite Symposium, please contact the symposium organizer.

Prevention of Neurodegenerative Disease: Recent Findings and Future Directions

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 8:30 am – 4:45 pm in the Salon Le Portage, Lobby Level of the Hilton Montréal Bonaventure

The United Nations’ "Program in Aging" report states that currently 1 in 10 persons in the world is 60 yrs or older. This number will change to 1 in 5 persons by the year 2050. This growth of the senior population poses a serious public health challenge for our societies since age is the greatest predictor of dementia. As our population ages, the incidence of dementia will steadily increase. No cures exist at the moment for the various forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, new biomedical and cognitive treatments emerge that show promise for either slowing disease progression and/or preventing conversion of milder forms of age‐associated cognitive decline (i.e. Mild Cognitive Impairment) to more severe dementias (i.e. AD). Furthermore, cognitive neuroscience and medical research has identified a number of new and promising early‐markers for identifying seniors at risk of dementia, prior to the onset of clinical symptoms.

This symposium will showcase the work of 8 clinician scientists and cognitive neuroscientists who conduct dementia and aging research aimed at developing biomedical and cognitive interventions for treating seniors with dementia, and at identifying psychological and biological markers for early detection of cognitive function in seniors. The key motivation for this line of research is prediction and prevention of dementia in our rapidly aging societies.

We hope you will join us on Saturday, April 17, 2010 for a full‐day symposium at Le Portage Room, Hilton Montréal Bonaventure, to learn and discuss these important issues facing Aging and Dementia Research.

Registration for the full‐day symposium is $50 CAD. Please register online at: http://cns-satellite.mcgill.ca/

Brain-Computer Interface Workshop

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 1:00 – 4:00 pm in the Fundy Room of the Hilton Montréal Bonaventure
Hosted by: Barbara Ohlinger from g.tec Medical Engineering

The main focus of the g.tec BCI workshops 2010 will be to show you all 4 concepts that are used around to world to realize such a BCI system: (i) motor imagery, (ii) steady-state-visual evoked potentials (SSVEP), (iii) P300 and (iv) slow cortical potential (SCP). In the workshop all components of a BCI system will be explained: active and passive electrodes, different biosignal amplifiers with digitization, real-time processing system, signal processing algorithms and training paradigms.

Also the first BCI system for patient usage will be demonstrated and discussed at the workshop (www.intendix.com)

The following experiments will be conducted in real-time:

-Cursor control with motor imagery
-Real-time analysis of P300: Spelling with the BCI
-Real-time analysis of SSVEPs: Robot control 

Especially the real-time experiments will show you in detail the required components and steps to successfully perform BCI studies. This will speed up your own research.

To register for the workshop, email Barbara Öhlinger at

For more information visit http://www.gtec.at/profile/BCI_WS_CNS_2010.html