GEORGE SAMANDOURAS

Consultant Neurosurgeon

The National Hospital & UCL

London, UK

Eloquent and silent white matter tracts & New models of clinicans/scientists collaboration

MARSEL MESULAM

Professor of Neuroscience and Director, Mesulam Centre for Cognitive Neurology, Chicago, USA

Geschwind, 60 Years of Disconnection Syndromes, and Neurocognitive Networks & Neuroanatomy of Word Comprehension: Lessons from Primary Progressive Aphasia

GREGORY HICKOK

University of California, Irving

Evolution of dual stream language models & Neural basis of syntax and grammar

DAVID VAN ESSEN

Endowed Professor of Neuroscience, University of Washington, USA

Cerebral cortical parcelation and connectivity

NINA DRONKERS

Director, Center for Aphasia and related Disorders, Univeristy of Berkley, USA

Scanning Broca’s patients brains;
what have we learnt?

M THIEBAUT DE SCHOTTEN

Director of Research /CNRS  Univeristy of Bordaux

Inter-hemispheric compensation
of functional deficits after brain
damage

EVELINA FEDORENKO

Massachusetts  Institute of Technology, Boston, USA

Broca’s area is not a natural kind

GEORGE OJEMANN

Professor Emeritus, Neurosurgery, University of Washington, USA

Old and new lessons learnt in a
lifetime of awake brain mapping

ALEXANDRA GOLBY

Director of Image-guided Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Intraoperative technologies to
identify and preserve language;
how reliable are they?

ANTHONY DICK

Professor of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, USA

Pros and cons of diffusion tensor
imaging in language mapping

J C FERNANDEZ-MIRANDA

Surgical Director, Stanford Brain Tumor Center, Palo Alto, USA

Anatomic & tractographic dissections language white matter tracts; advantages & limitations & Anatomical simulation & virtual reality models

DANIEL MARGULIES  

Tenured CNRS Researcher, PI, Frontlab, Paris, France

Gradients in cortical organization

ANDREW MCEVOY

Consultant Neurosurgeon

The National Hospital & UCL,

London, UK

Experience with robotic brain
surgery

SOTIRIOS BISDAS

Professor of Neuroradiology

University College London, UK

Multiparametric tumour imaging

ROGER LEMON

Emeritus Professor
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Functions of SMA, primary motor
and somatosensory cortices

CHRISTOS KOUTSARNAKIS

Head, Neuroanatomy Lab, University of Athens, Greece

Language and middle &
inferior longitudinal fasciculi

CRISTOF KOCH

President and Chief Scientist

Allen Institute, Seatle, USA

Neural networks subserving consciousness

AINA PUCE

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana  University. 

Chair, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Visual information routes in face processing

MITCHEL BERGER

Director, Brain Tumour Unit

University of California, San Francisco, USA

Evolution of brain mapping, from Penfield to present

PATRICIA K KUHL

Professor, Speech and Hearing Services, University of Washington, USA

Language wiring in the developing nervous system

ANASTASIA YENDIKI

A. Martinos Center and Harvard Medical School

Real and spurius white matter tracts and the accuracy of tractography

GUILHERME RIBAS

Professor of Surgery, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Applied anatomy of the supramarginal and angular gyri

SIMON B EICKHOFF

Director, Institute of the Brain and Behaviours, Julich, Germany

Searching for brain maps with
regional segregation and system
wide integrations

JEREMY SCHMAHMANN

Director, Lab for Ataxia, Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

White matter pathways in monkey; what have we learnt that has relevance for language fibre tract anatomy?

EDWARD CHANG

Professor and Chairman, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Language maps based on awake
brain surgery

BRIAN EDLOW

Director, Laboratory for NeuroImaging of Coma and Consciousness, Mass General Hospital, Boston, USA

Developing a 7 Tesla/100 micron
resolution brain MRI atlas; what’s
next?

EDUARDO RIBAS

Neurosurgeons, Medical School of the University of São Paulo

The insula and peri-insular
white matter tracts 

PHIROZ TARAPORE

Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Studying language with navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation

FION BREMNER

Consultant Neuro-ophthalmologist The National Hospital, London, UK

Mapping visual pathways

KEVIN O’NEIL

Consultant Neurosurgeon, Imperial College, London, UK

The use of clinical spectroscopy in
brain mapping and neurosurgery