World Congress on

Neuroscience and Brain Disorders

THEME: "Emerging Perspectives in Neurology and Brain Research"

img2 27-28 Mar 2024
img2 Hotel NH Sants Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Scientific Program

Keynote Speaker

DANIELA TOLICI

National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania

Title: Gender Dynamics and Sustainability Outcomes in the Romanian Financial Sector

Time: 10:20 - 10:55

DANIELA TOLICI

Biography


Keynote Speaker

MUMIN SADIKU

Klinika Euromed, Macedonia

Title: TBA

Time: 11:10 - 11:45

MUMIN SADIKU

Biography


Keynote Speaker

HITOSHI SAKANO

University of Fukui, Japan

Title: Neural Circuit Formation and Sensory Perception in the Mouse Olfactory System

Time: 11:45 - 12:20

HITOSHI SAKANO

Biography

 Sakano received his Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University in 1976.  For his thesis work Dr. Sakano investigated tRNA processing by isolating the temperature-sensitive mutants of the ribozyme RNAase P in E. coli.

From 1978 to 1981,  Sakano worked at Basel Institute for Immunology in Switzerland on immunoglobulin genes to solve the problem of antibody diversity.  He published five Nature article papers  providing the evidence for combinatorial and junctional diversification of antibody genes.

Sakano then moved to the University of California at Berkeley as Assistant Professor in 1982 and was promoted to tenured Full Professor in 1992.  He relocated to University of Tokyo in 1994 changing his research field to Neuroscience.  

Sakano is currently Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo and Professor in Neuroscience at University of Fukui.

 

Keynote Speaker

HOLLY MCNEILL

P.E.R.L.O.V.E. with Holly McNeill, United States

Title: The Mindfulness Architect

Time: 12:20 - 12:55

HOLLY MCNEILL

Biography

At age 34, Holly, a successful architect, saw the perfect world she'd created to conceal her flaws come crashing down. From this low point, she vowed to do better and spent the next twenty years making good on that vow. Embarking on a transformative journey, she explored spirituality, neuroscience, and psychology, and took a deep dive into Buddhist practices. Across the country, Holly read books, listened to teachings, and attended retreats, soaking up whatever guidance came her way. Her quest would evolve into the creation of the P.E.R.L.O.V.E. formula – an effective and transformational set of mindfulness and meditation practices based on the teachings and gurus she encountered. She now shares this wisdom with others.

Keynote Speaker

BOULENOUAR MESRAOUA

Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar

Title: Drug resistant epilepsy, definition, Pathophysiology and management

Time: 13:35 - 14:10

BOULENOUAR MESRAOUA

Biography

B.Mesraoua is currently Director of the Neurology Fellowship Program at the Neurology Section at HMC, Doha, Qatar; he is also Assistant Director of the Residency Program at Qatar Medical School.

He is the Chairman and the Organizer of the well known Qatar Epilepsy Symposium, and the International Epilepsy School he is running yearly for the past several years  

Speaker

BIANCA WISE

The Mindset Snob, United States

Title: Dare to Dream and Grow Boldly Toward Your Best Life

Time: 14:35 - 15:00

BIANCA WISE

Biography


Speaker

ILDA BUKVA

University of Bergamo, Bosnia And Herzegovina

Title: Exploring the Interplay of Self and Trauma: Implications for Affect Regulation and Identity Formation

Time: 15:00 - 15:25

ILDA BUKVA

Biography


Speaker

DANA THEUS

InPower Coaching, United States

Title: Healing Women’s Broken Relationship with Power

Time: 15:25 - 15:50

DANA THEUS

Biography

Dana Theus is an executive and career coach specializing in helping women unlock their highest potential to succeed and to shine. With her support, women aspiring to greater levels of leadership and entrepreneurship learn to retell the stories they must heal so that they can emerge into their full potential and find their authentically confident voice and impact. Leveraging a 25+ year career on the front lines of business, Dana has worked for Fortune 50 companies, entrepreneurial tech start-ups, government and military agencies and non-profits. She has taught graduate-level courses for several Universities in the Washington DC area. She writes on multiple leadership sites to bring an INPowered voice to authentic feminine leadership and gender-balanced leadership development. 

Speaker

CONSTANZA GONZALEZ

Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile

Title: The role of OT in stress response under different interpersonal conditions

Time: 15:50 - 16:15

CONSTANZA GONZALEZ

Biography

Psychologist, Master in Educational Psychology, Master in Mindfulness. PhD© in Developmental Sciences and Psychopathology, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.


Abstract

Her research interests lie in elucidating aspects that contribute to a more peaceful and healthy social coexistence, in harmony with the social nature of our species. She is  particularly intrigued by unraveling the psychobiological processes underlying social bonds and societies. In particular,  she is deeply interested in contributing to the understanding of interpersonal conditions that either facilitate or hinder optimal human functioning. Moreover, She seek to explore the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie affiliative processes and group phenomena, which ultimately promote greater well-being for individuals.

Keynote Speaker

MARY HYNES DANIELAK

CEO of The Counseling and Development Center out side of Atlanta, USA

Title: Understanding Executive Functioning Deficits Inherent in ADHD and ASD

Time: 09:45 - 10:20

MARY HYNES DANIELAK

Biography

Mary Hynes Danielak, Psy.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist. . Danielak is one of the founders and CEO of The Counseling and Development Center outside of Atlanta, GA. Danielak has been in clinical practice since 1994 and has tested over 1600 children, teens, and adults. She has trained a variety of postdoctoral fellows and best practices of assessment and interpretation of data. Her training in assessment included the neuropsychological assessment of executive functions for differentiating ADHD from other disorders. Her original doctoral dissertation research constituted an N=325 for her doctorate was published in Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 3, 40-45], “Doctoral Dissertation: “Comparison of Paternal Factors in Families with and without Daughters with Disturbed Eating Attitudes.” [Danielek, M., & Eme, R., (1995). She was a field researcher for the DSM-5 by the American Psychiatry Association (name is on page 912) and was also involved with the APA’s Quality Measure Development for Behavioral Health Initiative. In 2019, Danielak collected data for developing USA norms for a product developed in Spain with the Nesplora Corporation for the measurement of executive function in children using the Oculus I virtual-reality headset. 

Keynote Speaker

MARZIYEH BAKHSHIZADEH

Reutlingen School of Theoloy, Germany

Title: Religion, Emotion and Self-Empowerment

Time: 10:20 - 10:55

MARZIYEH BAKHSHIZADEH

Biography

Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh, Professor of Theories, Methods and Concepts in the Context of Social Diversity in the Social Work program at Reutlingen School of Theology. She studied sociology in Tehran and did her doctorate at Ruhr University Bochum on women's rights in different interpretations of Islam in Iran after the 1979 revolution. Her special interests in research and teaching are the sociology of emotions, the sociology of religion and especially human and women's rights in Islamic societies and cultures.

Keynote Speaker

BARB SMITH VARCLOVA

Your Steps Counselling, United Kingdom

Title: Reconnection with Inner Strength as a way to Empower Women

Time: 11:15 - 11:50

BARB SMITH VARCLOVA

Biography

Trauma Therapist, International Speaker, podcaster, mentor and educator with specialisation in Complex PTSD, PTSD and related coping mechanisms such as Eating Disorders, Addiction, Borderline Personality Disorder, Disassociation and Anxiety.

Founder of recovery program Trauma Response Recovery

Founder of educational program Complex PTSD Blueprint

She began to study how the mind works thirty years ago as a way to recover from Complex PTSD and completed several training programs, starting with The Silva Method of Mind Control, Acumulator, Principles of Life, NLP, Clinical and Pastoral Counselling, CBT, OneBrain, regression, hypnotherapy, and concluding with Rapid Transformation Therapy. In addition, I studied non-traditional modalities such as Reiki, Tarot, Osho Method, energy work of crystals, wood and plants. And available research regarding the physical manifestation of emotional issues, newly known more as Quantum healing.

Speaker

ALONA LEBEDIEVA

Aurum Charity Faundation, Ukraine

Title: TBA

Time: 12:40 - 13:05

ALONA LEBEDIEVA

Biography


Speaker

SOUKAYNA IKHICHE

Ideao, France

Title: Breaking the Hijab stereotype in business

Time: 13:00 - 14:00

SOUKAYNA IKHICHE

Biography


SAMA RAHNEMAYAN

Biography

Sama Rahnemayan is a medical graduate with a history of research in different neuroscience related fields. She is currently working as a research assistant in one of the leading neuroscience research centers of Iran and has a background of working as a guest researcher at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and Bogazici University in Turkey. Her aim is to continue her academic character as a neuroscientist with medical background to address answers and solutions to practical issues, affecting everyday life. Her latest research focus has been merely on studying driving behavior and its risk factors, especially based on fMRI results. The present abstract, contains the results of her latest study, which has a very novel design and has not been studied anywhere before.

 

AHMAD MEHDIPOUR ARBASTAN

Biography

Ahmad Mehdipour Arbastan is a passionate medical student, researcher, inventor, and international speaker of top neurological-neurosurgical diseases that efforts to discover new ways of preventing, diagnosing, and treating CNS's major diseases, in order to positively impact patient’s lives. He loves to work with different scientists of neurology and neurosurgery fields from all over the world on MS, NMO, Parkinson, and Alzheimer diseases.

Keynote Speaker

GABRIELE SARETZKI

New Castle University,Germany

Title: Telomerase in brain and neurodegeneration

Time: 15:30 - 16:10

GABRIELE SARETZKI

Biography


Keynote Speaker

MANDY SCHULIS

Mandy Schulis & Co., United States

Title: 48-Hours to Change Your Life

Time: 16:10 - 16:50

MANDY SCHULIS

Biography