VII CONFERENCE
HORMONES, BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

 

 

 

 

 

TORINO – February 13th

 

 

 Dept. Anatomy, Pharmacology and Forensic Medicine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

VII Conf. Hormones Brain and Behavior

 

Satellite Symposia

 

February 15th

 

February 16th

 

February 17th

 

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Organizers G.J. De Vries (USA), J. Balthazart (Belgium), G.C. Panzica (Italy)

 




The conference is organized to celebrate 50 years of researches on the interactions among gonadal hormones and brain circuitries.


Location: Hall Giuseppe Levi (Hall A), corso M. D'Azeglio 52, Torino (Italy).

 

PROGRAM (download pdf 1Mb)

 

9:55 a.m. Welcome

10:00 Margaret M. McCarthy (University of Maryland School of Medicine,USA) New Tricks for an Old Dogma: How Estradiol Mediates Masculinization and Defeminization of Sexual Behavior

10:30 Julie Bakker (University of Liege, Belgium): Role of Estrogens in the Sexual Differentiation of the Brain

11:00 Emilie F. Rissman (University of Virginia, USA): Sex Chromosomes etc.: New Players for Sexual Differentiation.

11:30 Greg Ball (Johns Hopkins University, USA): New Views of Neuroplasticity and Sex Differences in the Songbird Brain

12:30 Geert J. de Vries (University of Massachusetts, USA): A Second Look at the Function of Sexual Differentiation of the Brain

<>12:30- 2:00 p.m. Lunch


2:15 Paola Palanza (University of Parma, ITALY): Sex differences in social and emotional behavior in mice: How, Why and When

2:45 Nancy G. Forger (University of Massachusetts, USA): Naked Mole-rats: Who needs Sex Differences?

3:15 Dick F. Swaab (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, NL) Sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation

3:45-4:00 Closure of the Conference

4:00-6:30 Visit to the Anatomy Museum

 

6:30-8:00 Jazz Concert: A tribute to Duke Ellington

Jazz Group of the Musical Association of the University Students in Piedmont

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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