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PROGRAM

EBBS Workshop on

HEMISPHERIC SPECIALISATION AND COMPENSATORY STRATEGIES IN BRAIN DISORDERS

February 28 - March 3, 1999, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland

Organised by

Stephanie Clarke, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Marianne Regard, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Anna Grabowska, Nencki Institute, Warsow, Poland

Sunday, February 28

M. Wiesendanger: Compensatory strategies in brain disorders from a historical perspective

Monday, March 1

J. B. Hellige: Relationship of hemispheric specialisation to corpus callosum morphology

T. Landis: Hemispheric complementarity and the role of interhemispheric inhibition

MINISYMPOSIUM

M. Regard: Laterality of affective processes

A. Grabowska: Visual illusion and hemispheric specialisation: sex related effects of brain damage

P. Brugger: Creativity and delusions

N. D. Cook: Hemispheric cooperation during mental rotation

C. A. Marzi: Pathways of interhemispheric transfer in normal and callosum-sectioned human subjects: Evidence from functional brain imaging ”

POSTERS

ROUND TABLE chaired by M.-C. Hepp-Reymond

Interhemispheric collaboration in intact and damaged brain

Tuesday, March 2

J. C. Marshall: What are visuo-spatial neglect?

G. Vallar: Patterns of recovery of spatial hemineglect after right hemisphere damage

C. Weiller: Learning, brain plasticity and recovery of function

M. Ptito: Anatomical investigation of the neural substrates of residual vision in the hemispherectomized monkey

J. G. Villemure: Speech, motor and sensory reorganization in hemispherectomized patients

ROUND TABLE chaired by S. Clarke

New vistas in neurorehabilitation. Can we predict / influence recovery

Wednesday, March 3

S. Clarke: Multiple interhemispheric pathways

J. Bullier: Role of feedback connections in figure/ground discrimination

M. Thallmair: Structural and functional plasticity in the adult CNS after neutralization of myelin-associated neurite growth inhibitors ”