34^th World Neuroscience and Neurology Conferences

Prof. Mutihac is member of the ISMRM, ESMRMB, OHBM, Romanian US Alumni Association, and fellow of Signal Processing and Neural Networks Society IEEE, as well as referee for several journals of the Institute of Physics (London, UK), Neural Networks (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and evaluator/expert for the ISMRM, OHBM, ARACIS, CNCSIS, UEFISCDI, The Romanian – U.S. Fulbright Commission, and the European Commission (FP7, H2020).

Neuroscience, Physicists, Childhood and Developmental Disorders, Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Epilepsy, Neurological Surgery

egundo Mesa Castillo. As Specialist in Neurology, he worked for 10 years in the Institute of Neurology of Havana, Cuba. He has worked in Electron Microscopic Studies on Schizophrenia for 32 years. He was awarded with the International Price of the Stanley Foundation Award Program and for the Professional Committee to work as a fellowship position in the Laboratory of the Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke under Dr. Joseph Gibbs for a period of 6 months, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, Washington D.C. USA, June 5, 1990.

Electron Microscopic Studies, Central Nervous System, Neurological Diseases

Dr A V Srinivasan, driven by his quest for excellence and the latest discoveries on human brain related disorders, joined Madras Medical College (MMC) and received MD(General Medicine) in 1978.Later he pursued and received DM in Neurology from his alma mater

SENSORY MODULATION. IN PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL LESIONS OF THE SOMATO SENSORY SYSTEM

He is P.hd in biomedical sciences in neuroscience and traumatology and neuropharmacology sector. Prof. in Human Movement Anatomy, Phd in Applied biomedical sciences, Research in Neuro Rehabilitation and Kinesiology

Physiology, Neuroscience, Bio- mechanics, and Bio-medical sciences

Dr. Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, MD, is a psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist. He is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Richmond University Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He received formal training in psychiatry, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular imaging and neuroimaging. He was awarded the prestigious BK Anand National Research Prize in India and Solomon Award of Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on the study of neural and neurochemical mechanisms that control human brain functions. He developed the single scan dynamic molecular imaging technique (SDMIT) to detect, map, and measure neurotransmitters released acutely in the human brain during task performance. This technique is now used in laboratories all over the world. Using this technique, he studies dopaminergic control of human cognition and behavior. He is also interested in learning the nature of dysregulated dopamine neurotransmission in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions. His research is funded by NIMH, NINDS, VA, and various foundations. Previously he served in the faculty of Harvard Medical School, SUNY Buffalo and University of Minnesota. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.

Neural and Neurochemical mechanisms in Human Cognition and Behavior

Dr Jerzy Leszek is Professor of Psychiatry, Vice-Head of the Department of Psychiatry , Head of Alzheimer’s Disease Lab at the Medical University in Wroclaw , and Scientific Director of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa near Wroclaw, Poland. He graduated at Medical University of Wroclaw in 1979, was awarded a doctorate in Wroclaw in 1981 and in 1999- examination for the degree of associate professor of psychiatry and since 2005 he is working as full professor of psychiatry at Wroclaw Medical University. He is author and co-author more than 240 papers (especially from old age psychiatry), some chapters to the books published in reputed Polish and international journals and serving as an editorial board member of several journals .He is Editor –in-Chief of Journal of Yoga and Physical Activity. He is Scientific Editor and co-author of first Polish academic handbook on Alzheimer’s disease and nine another academic handbooks from old age psychiatry(Polish and internationals) , member a lot of scientific associations e .g founder and president of Lower Silesian Association of Alzheimer’s Families, first of its kind in Poland ,President of the Scientific Council of Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Scinawa, near Wroclaw , Former President and founder of Polish Psychogeriatric Association, Former Secretary(now member) of European Old Age Psychiatry and Former Member of Board of Directions of International Psychogeriatric Association

Neurodegeneration processes/Alzheimer’s disease

Ljudmila Stojanovich received her Ph.D. in Medicine, with the thesis “Neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus” in 1999. She is the scientific director in the Bezhanijska Kosa, University Medical Center of Belgrade University, where she is currently a Full Research Professor. Dr. Stojanovich’s research focuses on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, and Vaccination in patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic diseases. She is an author of three monographs and of about 250 articles on various aspects of Autoimmune Rheumatic disorders, published in international and domestic journals and in conference proceedings. She is in Editorial Boards (Editorial Boards LUPUS (LONDON). /Reviewer in the “CURRENT CONTENSTS” or “Science citation index”, like LUPUS REWIEWER DATABAS, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, The Journal of Vaccine

Systemic Lupus Erythematous, Antiphospholipid syndrome, Neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with systemic Lupus Erythematous, Vaccination in patients with auto-immune inflammatory rheumatic diseases

Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Profesor Complutense University Madrid, Spain Chair of High technology applied to Medicine UCM CEO and Founder at Advanced Pain Management Center Madrid Chairman Scientific Committee of ISGAR Society ( International Society of Gynecology and Research ) Editor Journal of Pain Management and Therapy (USA) AIUM Members (American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine) Head Pain Unit La Milagrosa Hospital & Los Madroños Hospital Anesthesiologist and Pain Management at CEMTRO Hospital ,Madrid Anesthesiologist Ruber Quirón Hospital, Madrid, Spain Organizing Committee World Pain Series Conferences (USA) Fellowship Neuroanesthesia (Barcelona) Fellowship Cardiac Anesthesia (USA) Neuroanesthesiologist at Magnetic Neuromodulation Team Madrid Expert and Professor of Advanced Ultrasound International Speaker

Anesthesiology

Dr. Sawsan Abuhamdah is a Jordanian registered Pharmacist, has completed her PhD from Durham University, UK and postdoctoral studies from Granada Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, Spain and has won postdoctoral Fulbright Research Award at the University of Toledo, Department of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, Ohio, USA, 2014-2015.Promoted to associate professor in 2014 at the faculty of pharmacy, University of Jordan, and now acting as Deputy Dean, College of Pharmacy, Al Ain University of Science and technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Abuhamdah has published many original research articles in peer-reviewed journals and participated in the preparation of many symposium abstracts. Dr. Abuhamdah is a member of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS), British Neuroscience Association (BNA), Sigma Phi Sigma pharmaceutical Sciences Honor Society, University of Toledo, USA, Jordan Pharmaceutical Association and she has been serving as an editorial board member of reputable pharmaceutical journals.

Neuropharmacology, Neurosciences, Ion channels, Alzheimer’s, Epilepsy & Parkinson’s disease. Neuroprotective approaches for neurodegenerative diseases, drug abuse. In vivo behavioural (learning/memory; anxiety). Isolation, identification and biological evaluation of plants secondary metabolites for CNS.

neurology resident from 2004_2007 master degree of neurology 2007 neurology registrar at Erfan & Bagedo General hospital from 2009_2013 assistant lecturer of neurology from 2011_2017 M.D neurology 2017 lecturer of neurology January 2018

Neurology

He completed MBBCH very good with honors on Nov 1982 and completed Master of General Surgery in 1987.He did fellowship in the department of Neurosurgery in 1994.He did doctorate degree in Neurological surgery in 1994.and member congress of American Neurological Surgeons on 2000 He is the House officer in Ministry of Health Hospitals and Alexandria university Hospitals for one year from 1983 to 1984.He worked as physician in the Ministry of Health Hospitals from 1984 to 1987. He is Registrar of Neurosurgery in private hospital from 1987 to 1988. He is Assistant lecturer of Neurosurgical department of Alexandria University Hospitals from 1988 to 1994.He is chief consultant of Neurosurgery in SAQR Hospitals, UAE from 2000 to 2003.He visit to Neurological surgery department, Royal College of Medicine,London in 2001. He is working as Professor of Neurosurgery department at Alexandria University from 2010 to till date.

Neurology and Neurosurgery

The Administrator and Chairperson of ProMed Academy & Professor of Plastic Surgery at Fayoum University - Faculty Of Medicine

Plastic and Aesthetic Research

Marwa Saad, M.Sc. is an American Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist Certified, Professional Health Care Quality Specialist Team STEPPS master and also Trainer Free lancer at First Arabian Drug Information Center (FADIC) Promed Academy Executive Manager

Pharmacotherapy

Krupa Torne is among the few super specialists who have been internationally trained in the field of Paediatric Neurology. At present she is heading the department of Neurosciences at Surya Children’s multispecialty Hospital , one of the premier Institution for children in Mumbai in India. She has completed her Fellowship in Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy from Maharashtra University Health Sciences at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai. She has had a brief stint at the University College London Hospital, a premier academic institution cum hospital in the UK. She has been trained in Paediatric Neurology at Birmingham Children's Hospital in UK where she successfully completed her International Fellowship in Paediatric Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurorehabilitation. To complement her advanced training in Paediatric Neurology she has completed many prestigious International courses like British Paediatric Epilepsy Training Course, British Paediatric Movement disorder Training Course in UK. She has also been trained for Ketogenic diet for drug resistant childhood epilepsies at the Asian Institute of Ketogenic Diet. Dr Torne has many accolades to her name which complements her meticulous and explicate personality. She is an invaluable Editorial Board Member of Journal of Neuroscience and brain Imaging in London UK. She was honoured by International Bursary from European Paediatric Neurology Society with an opportunity to attend one of the prestigious courses in Paediatric Neuromuscular disorder and Neonatal Neurology at Budapest in Hungary. She was invited to attend the valuable Movement Disorder International Winter School Course by Movement Disorder International society at Catania in Italy. As a feather in her cap she was invited as a Chief Guest in World Congress of Anatomist held in Gadag Institute of Medical Sciences in Karnataka and International Paediatric Conference held at Port Said in Egypt. She has to her credit many valuable publications in reputed peer reviewed index national and International Journals. She is an active Organizing Committee Member for more than 10 prestigious national and international medical conferences. She has presented many national and international papers in Cambridge, Birmingham, Italy, France and Hungary. She is affiliated to more than 15 eminent International and National Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy associations. Dr. KrupaTorne is among the few super specialists who have been internationally trained in the field of Paediatric Neurology. At present she is heading the department of Neurosciences at Surya Children’s multispecialty Hospital , one of the premier Institution for children in Mumbai in India. She has completed her Fellowship in Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy from Maharashtra University Health Sciences at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai. She has had a brief stint at the University College London Hospital, a premier academic institution cum hospital in the UK. She has been trained in Paediatric Neurology at Birmingham Children's Hospital in UK where she successfully completed her International Fellowship in Paediatric Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurorehabilitation. To complement her advanced training in Paediatric Neurology she has completed many prestigious International courses like British Paediatric Epilepsy Training Course, British Paediatric Movement disorder Training Course in UK. She has also been trained for Ketogenic diet for drug resistant childhood epilepsies at the Asian Institute of Ketogenic Diet. Dr. Torne has many accolades to her name which complements her meticulous and explicate personality. She is an invaluable Editorial Board Member of Journal of Neuroscience and brain Imaging in London UK. She was honoured by International Bursary from European Paediatric Neurology Society with an opportunity to attend one of the prestigious courses in Paediatric Neuromuscular disorder and Neonatal Neurology at Budapest in Hungary. She was invited to attend the valuable Movement Disorder International Winter School Course by Movement Disorder International society at Catania in Italy. As a feather in her cap she was invited as a Chief Guest in World Congress of Anatomist held in Gadag Institute of Medical Sciences in Karnataka and International Paediatric Conference held at Port Said in Egypt. She has to her credit many valuable publications in reputed peer-reviewed index national and International Journals. She is an active Organizing Committee Member for more than 10 prestigious national and international medical conferences. She has presented many national and international papers in Cambridge, Birmingham, Italy, France and Hungary. She is affiliated to more than 15 eminent International and National Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy associations.

She is a recipient of MRCPCH UK, an internationally acclaimed medical qualification. Her research interest is in complex pediatric epilepsies, ketogenic diet, and pediatric movement disorder.

Asma Ismail is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist.She has done Master degree in clinical psychology and Psychotherapy, and Specialist in Clinical Psychology. At present, she is working as senior rehab. Specialist in a rehabilitation center from Addiction, at Erada center, Dubai government, UAE. She was also the Head of the social inclusion unit - at Dubai Community Development Authority, Dubai government, UAE.

Clinical Psychology

Farnad Imani is currently Chair of Pain Research Center and Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine in Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), with twenty two years experience in academic postgraduate teaching in anesthesiology and pain medicine. He is founder of academic pain fellowship in Iran at 2006. His research interest includes chronic and acute pain managements, and has a special interest in the percutaneous, endoscopic, and minimal invasive procedures for spinal pain. Prof Imani is founder and Editor in Chief of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine journal from 2011 up to now.

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Radwa Khalil currently works at the Psychology and Methods, Jacobs University. Radwa does research in Experimental and Computational Neuroscience, Developmental Biology and Biotechnology.

Models of dynamical synapses and cortical development. Decision Making In the Basal Ganglia(BG). Project - Models of dynamical synapses and cortical development. P093 Transcranial cortex stimulation, neuroplasticity and learning: An experimental and computational study Fit in 5 Minuten Zum Einfl uss von aktiven Arbeitspausen auf psycho-somatische Beschwerden Models of Dynamical Synapses and Cortical Development Fit in 5 Minuten Zum Einfl uss von aktiven Arbeitspausen auf psycho-somatische Beschwerden The Effects of Dynamical Synapses on Firing Rate Activity: A Spiking Neural Network Model https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Radwa_Khalil2 https://jacobs-university.academia.edu/RadwaKHALIL https://emn-online.org/master-program/teacher-profiles/khalil-radwa https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/43157/overview

Mustafa Momni is a Doctor of Neurosurgery from the University of Damascus from Syria

Neurosurgery, Neurology & Neuroscience

Dr. Arman Rahimmi is an advanced Ph.D. student of Molecular Medicine at Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran. He is a young researcher in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Parkinson’s disease. He has been involved in the field since 2012. He is well experienced in studying molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s diseases concerning oxidative stress and neuro-inflammation.

Neurodegenerative Diseases (Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease etc.) Anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory compounds as therapeutic agents for neurodegenerative Diseases. Repairing damaged neuronal circuits and projections in neurodegenerative Diseases.

Fu-Zen Shaw has interested in establishment of animal models of epilepsy and fibromyalgia and also provides valuable non-pharmacological interventions for ameliorating seizures through closed-loop deep brain stimulation or for enhancing wellbeing of healthy people and patients with insomnia or mild cognitive impairment through self-training of brain rhythms. Recently, he develops a neurofeedback platform to train alpha rhythm with a sham-controlled group to validate controllability, specificity and independence of the neurofeedback training. Dr. Shaw also provides convinced evidence about trained alpha rhythm on enhancement of both working memory and semantic episodic memory. This study extends our understanding on effect of trained frontoparietal alpha rhythm on episodic memory of object recognition. The global effect of trained alpha rhythm may create potential insight on boosting human wellbeing.

Epilepsy, Brain Stimulation, Fibromyalgia, Neurofeedback

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Psychiatry,Stroke, Neurology

Kah-Leong Lim obtained his Ph.D. from the Singapore Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology in 1999. Thereafter, he did his postdoctoral training at the Department of Pathology in Harvard Medical School (2000-2001), and subsequently at the Department of Neurology in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (2001-2002), where he worked on the topic of Parkinson’s disease with Professor Ted Dawson. Dr. Lim is currently the Deputy Director of Research at the National Neuroscience Institute of Singapore and Director of Basic and Translational Research in the Singhealth Duke-NUS Neuroscience Academic Clinical Program. He is a member of the National Grant Review Panel (NMRC) and a regular reviewer of international grants including applications from the Welcome Trust and Medical Research Council (UK). Dr. Lim is an editor for PLoS One and Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience and a guest editor for PLoS Genetics. His research focuses on therapeutic development for Parkinson’s disease.

Parkinson’s disease, Cellular Neuroscience

Ming-Chao Huang was born in 1958, in Taipei, Taiwan. He obtained MD degree from Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, in 1984. He got his PhD degree from Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan, in 1996. He is a neurosurgeon and is currently the division Chief of Department of Neurosurgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. He is also the Associate Professor of Taipei Medical University and Central Taiwan Technological University. His clinical specialty includes spinal surgery (including degeneration and trauma), peripheral nerve surgery (including tumor surgery and nerve repair), and brain tumor surgery. His research interests are nerve root injury (including basic mechanism and surgical repair), neuropathic pain (including basic study and treatment), and brain tumor (including medical and surgical treatment).

spinal surgery, peripheral nerve surgery, brain tumor surgery

Dr. Zhu’s research aims toward finding solutions to a newly recognized challenge in treatment for HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HANDs). About one-half of HIV-1-positive individuals suffer from HAND, which dramatically affects memory, learning, decision-making, planning and overall quality of life. Cocaine has been shown to exacerbate the severity of HAND. HAND is associated with HIV-1 viral proteins, which are present in the brain of HIV-1-infected patients. HIV-1 transactivator of transcription (Tat) protein--an HIV regulatory protein--is thought to inhibit neuronal communication by acting directly on the human dopamine transporter, a membrane protein in the brain responsible for pumping the dopamine back into the cytosol and terminating dopamine signaling during neurotransmission. Dr. Zhu’s project is to investigate how cocaine and Tat work to create binders that derail neuronal communication in the brain. The ultimate goal is to develop neuroprotective drugs and help HIV patients recover their neurological function.

HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders

Liudmyla D. Popova has PhD degree, degree of doctor of biology sciences, the title of Biochemistry Department Professor. She is presently Biochemistry Department professor in Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine. The field of scientific interests is the study of the aggression development mechanisms. Based on her own researchresults and analysis of literary data, she believes that in order to understand the mechanisms of aggressiveness formation in human it is important to study the features of the correlations between personality traits and sex hormones, stress hormones in different populations. When interpreting the results, populational differences in personality traits should be taken into account. Oxana A. Nakonechnaya has PhD degree, degree of doctor of medicine, the title of Biochemistry Department Professor. She is presently Head of Biochemistry Department in Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine. Irina M. Vasylyeva has PhD degree. She is presently Biochemistry Department assistant in Kharkiv National Medical University.

Biochemistry, hormone-behavior interactions.