Thursday morning
Prelude
9.00 - 10.00:
The Selfish Brain Theory - An overview; Achim Peters, Luebeck, Germany
Physiology of Brain ATP Control
10.30 - 12.00:
Energy demand: Glutamatergic control of astrocytic fuel supply; Luc Pellerin, Lausanne, Switzerland
Monitoring of stored and available fuel by the brain; Stephen C. Woods, Cincinnati, US
 
Thursday afternoon
Glucose Allocation
14.00 - 15.30 and 16.00 - 17.30
Energy request: Glutamatergic control of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system Patricia Molina, New Orleans, US
Leptin and Katp-Channels; Dave Spanswick, Warwick, UK
Adipostatic signals; Denis Baskin, Seattle, US
Leptin Resistance: a neuroprotective mechanism?; Hendrik Lehnert, Warwick, UK/Magdeburg, Germany
 
Friday Morning
Learning how to control brain glucose
8.00 - 9.30 and 10.00 - 11.30
Molecular basis of bistability in synaptic plasticity; John Lisman, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
Stress and plasticity; Gal Richter-Levin, Haifa, Israel
Insulin, food and brain plasticity; Niels Birbaumer, Tuebingen, Germany
Sleep and consolidation of metabolic setpoints; Jan Born, Luebeck, Germany
 
Friday Afternoon
The Brain's Primacy and Obesity
12.30 - 14.00 and 14.30 - 16.00
Chronic stress and glucose metabolism; Mary Dallman, San Francisco, US
Melancholic and atypical depression and respective body mass changes; Ulrich Schweiger, Lübeck, Germany
Dopaminergic neural circuits and the metabolic syndrome; Hanno Pijl, Leiden, Netherlands
The role of the LHPA-System in the origin of obesity; Horst Lorenz Fehm, Luebeck, Germany

Registration is available at
http://www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2005/1121self.php
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