day 1 agenda
| 6th International Conference on COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCES (ICBN-2026) September 07-08 in Paris, France |
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| Meeting Hall - Paris 3 | ||
| Registrations open 08:00-08:50 | ||
| Moderator: Eva M. Medina-Rodriguez, Spain |
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| Welcome Remarks by Moderator 08:50-09:00 | ||
| Day 1- September 07, 2026 | ||
| Keynote Sessions | ||
| Yovav Eshet, Zefat Academic College, Israel |
09:00-09:30 | Keynote Talk: Enhancing Academic Integrity through Creative Thinking in AI-Driven Higher Education |
| Robert Fettiplace, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
09:30-10:00 | Keynote Talk: Hair Cell Apoptosis and Deafness |
| Carol Manning University of Virginia, USA |
10:00-10:30 | Keynote Talk: Individualized Coordination and Empowerment for Care Partners of Persons with Dementia ICECaP: Study rationale and protocol |
| Sid O’Bryant, University of North Texas Health Science Center, USA |
10:30-11:00 | Keynote Talk: Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers Among Diverse Populations – Updates and Future Directions |
| Group Photo & Refreshment Break (11:00-11:20) | ||
| Technical Session-I | ||
| Session Chairs: Daniel Stein, Israel & Youssef Sari, USA | ||
| Ilan Laufer, Ariel University, Israel |
11:20-11:40 | Title: Attachment anxiety and selective frontal-theta amplification during punished early responses in an interval-reproduction task |
| Jiancheng Hou, Fujian Normal University, China |
11:40-12:00 | Title: Differences in structural brain morphometry between musicians and non-musicians |
| Martin Göpfert University of Göttingen, Germany |
12:00-12:20 | Title: Identification of a gating spring that initiates mechanosensation |
| Lei Han, BGI Research, China |
12:20-12:40 | Title: Single-cell spatial transcriptomic atlas of the whole mouse brain |
| Youssef Sari, University of Toledo, USA |
12:40-13:00 | Title: Novel synthetic GLT-1 modulators as potential therapeutic compounds for the treatment of Drugs of Abuse |
| Simon Reay Atkinson & Marouane Rouicheq University of Sydney & NativUC, Australia |
13:00-13:20 | Title: Can humanity keep its jitter? – existential human knowledge vitality verse interstitial machine knowledge perfection? |
| Lunch Break @ Restaurant (13:20-14:00) | ||
| Technical Session-II | ||
| Session Chairs: Ilan Laufer, Israel, Rodica Elena Petrea, USA & Garrison W Cottrell, USA | ||
| Veit Stuphorn, Johns Hopkins University, USA |
14:00-14:20 | Title: The role of attention in multi-attribute decision making |
| Alexandre Dumais University of Montreal, Canada |
14:20-14:40 | Title: Virtual reality-based Avatar Therapy for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: Results of a pilot clinical trial |
| Qing Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, China |
14:40-15:00 | Title: Ethical governance of clinical research on the brain–computer interface for mental disorders: a modified Delphi study |
| Daniel Stein, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
15:00-15:20 | Title: LEGO® therapy in anorexia nervosa |
| Yuli Fradkin, Rutgers University, USA |
15:20-15:40 | Title: A Randomized Sham-Controlled Clinical Trial Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Transcranial Photobiomodulation to Improve Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Brain Electrophysiology in Children Aged 2–6 Years |
| Garrison W Cottrell University of California, USA |
15:40-16:00 | Title: An anatomical explanation for the inverted face effect |
| Sonya Miller TauRx Therapeutics, United Kingdom |
16:00-16:20 | Title: Alzheimer’s Disease Pathophysiology and Research Targets |
| Daphna Joel, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
16:20-16:40 | Title: Beyond the binary: New ways of studying the relations between sex and the brain |
| Avi Avital, University of Haifa, Israel |
16:40-17:00 | Title: Attention Regulation Among Sleep-Deprived Air Force Pilots |
| Hongxing Wang, Zhongda Hospital Southeast University, China |
17:00-17:20 | Title: Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting outcomes in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness |
| Rodica Elena Petrea, California Touro University, USA |
17:20-17:40 | Title:Transthyretin cardiac (TTR) amyloidosis and vascular dementia |
| Eva M. Medina-Rodriguez, FISABIO, Spain |
17:40-18:00 | Title:The role of gut bacterial and immune communities in depression |
| Thomas Küchelmann, Bielefeld University, Germany |
Poster Presentation(18:00-18:10) | Title: Expertise-dependent mental representation in chess: evaluation and comparisons based on structural dimensional analysis-motoric |
| Refreshment Break (18:10-18:20) | ||
| Day-1 Concludes | ||
| Virtual Program- Followed by Paris Time(CEST) | ||
| Day 2- September 08, 2026 | ||
| James McLure, Deakin University, Australia |
08:40-09:00 | A lived experience transformation of mental illness to mental health: Inspiring a movement of hope |
| Mikhail Kiselev, Chuvash State University, Russia |
09:00-09:20 | Purely Spiking Reinforcement Learning – from Model-Free to Model-Based |
| Robert John Aumann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
09:20-09:50 | Keynote Talk: Why Consciousness? |
| Lusine Brsikian, Russia Center of Neurology and Neurosciences, Russia |
09:50-10:10 | Clinical and neurophysiological characteristics of sleep in Alzheimer’s disease |
| Slot Available | 10:10-10:30 | Slot Available |
| Hamama Liat, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
10:30-10:50 | Well-Being among Parents of Youth with Multiple Sclerosis: A preliminary Longitudinal Study |
| Elisabetta Palagi, University of Pisa, Italy |
10:50-11:10 | Moving bodies, social bonds: The evolutionary roots of social connection |
| Rakhee Kundu, Amity University, India |
11:10-11:30 | ResNeXt convolutional forward harmonic network for autism spectrum |
| Elizabeth Simes, University College London, United Kingdom |
11:30-11:50 | Findings from the MOAM trial: mentalization-based treatment for antisocial personality disorder—clinical outcomes, mechanisms, and peer research involvement |
| Slot Available | 11:50-12:10 | Slot Available |
| Torsten Baldeweg, University College London, United Kingdom |
12:10-12:30 | Long-term developmental trajectories in children with focal epilepsy: cognitive and neuroimaging evidence |
| Elena Mirela Samfira, University of Life Sciences, Romania |
12:30-12:50 | Teachers’ pupil control ideology: correlations with self-acceptance, perfectionism, and irrational beliefs |
| Ève Poudrier, University of British Columbia, Canada |
12:50-13:10 | Modeling polyrhythmic experience in a corpus of polyphonic music from Europe and North-America, 1877–1969 |
| Dean Zeldich, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, USA |
13:10-13:30 | Apolipoprotein E4 and Its Impact on Neurodegeneration and Disease Progression in Multiple Sclerosis |
| Philip Spiller, United States Food and Drug Administration, USA |
13:30-14:00 | Plenary Talk: Fish consumption advice is depriving children of neurolipids and other nutrients essential to brain and eye development |
| Rodica Elena Petrea, California Touro University, USA |
14:00-14:20 | Transthyretin cardiac (TTR) amyloidosis and vascular dementia |
| Pierfilippo De Sanctis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA |
14:20-14:40 | Neural Signatures of Complex Daily Activities in Older Adults at Risk for Cognitive Decline |
| Kymberly Young, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
14:40-15:00 | Real-Time fMRI amygdala neurofeedback for major depressive disorder: Progress and Challenges |
| Susan A. J. Birch, The University of British Columbia, Canada |
15:00-15:20 | Targeting cognitive biases to improve social cognition and social emotional health |
| Samah Ibrahim, McGill University, Canada |
15:20-15:40 | Administering Electroconvulsive Therapy to Critically Ill Individuals: Risks, Monitoring, and Benefits |
| Dana C Hilt, Actinogen Medical, USA |
15:40-16:00 | The role of cortisol in CNS disease –11β-HSD1 inhibition as a potential new therapeutic for neuropsychiatric diseases |
| Scott Matthews , Yale University School of Medicine, USA |
16:00-16:20 | Virtual Reality and Psychedelics: Toward New Models of Consciousness and Novel Treatments for Alcohol Use Disorder |
| Ana I. Schwartz, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
16:20-16:40 | The impact of cross-language co-activation of cognates on bilingual performance on the reading span task |
| Bradley K. Taylor, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
16:40-17:00 | Parabrachial neuropeptide Y Y1 receptor-expressing neurons govern the need-state control of neuropathic pain |
| Thomas F. Collura, BrainMaster Technologies, Inc, USA |
17:00-17:20 | Emerging standards for clinical quantitative electroencephalography: The IQCB guideline |
| Utkarsh Shukla, Western University, Canada |
17:20-17:40 | Development and validation of Hindi-English bilingual irony stimuli for psycholinguistic and cognitive neuroscience research |
| Day-2 Concludes | ||