WCNP 2024

The Richard F. Thompson New Concepts Session
Chair: Janelle C. LeBoutillier
Participants: Open to all participants. Five minute PowerPoint presentations on new ideas, findings or techniques.

How are Episodic Memories Encoded by the Hippocampus – Place Cells or Engrams?
Chair: Mark Sheffield
Participants: Annabelle Singer, Jayeeta Basu Thomas McHugh, Paul Frankland and Mark Sheffield.

Neuroplasticity Mechanisms in Stroke Recovery
Chair: Teena Joy
Participants: Adam Bauer, Elvira Pirondini, Karunesh Ganguly and Mary Teena Joy.

Closed-loop Approaches to Modulating Neural Activity in Health and Disease
Chair: Tristan Shuman
Participants: Nanthia Suthana, Jennifer Gelinas, Albert Lee and Tristan Shuman.

Behaviors: from Molecules to Circuits
Chair: Kristen O’Connell
Participants: Ames Sutton, Ashley Webb and Kristen O’Connell.

Neurobiology of Choice and Decision-Making
Chair: Jeansok Kim
Participants: Steve Chang, Osama Ahmed, Sheri Mizumori, Daesoo Kim and Jeansok Kim.

What is New in the Aging Brain
Chair:  Geoff Murphy
Participants: Jennifer Bizon, Tom Foster, Chris Norris and Geoff Murphy.

Neural Oscillations and the Re-entrant Organization of the Brain in Rodents and Humans
Chair: Sara Burke and Andrew Maurer
Participants: Andreas Keil, Stephen Cowen, Abhilasha Vishwanath, Andrew Maurer and Sara Burke.

Brain and Body Interactions in Stress and Threat-Related Behaviors
Chairs: Abha Rajbhandari
Participants: Sung Han, Christa McIntyre, Ivan Araujo, Lindsay Schwartz and Abha Rajbhandari.

Pregnancy and Neural Plasticity
Chair: Rebecca Brooker and Jessica Bernard
Participants: John Krzeczkowski, Edwina Orchard, Rebecca Brooker and Jessica Bernard.

“All the Feels”- Neuromodulation and Sensory Integration in the Parental Experience
Chair: Bianca Jones Marlin
Participants:  Mark Ansorge, Rainbo Hultman, Jessica Osterhout, Austin Coley and Bianca Jones.