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<font face="Times New Roman"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> </span></p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>We would like to invite you to reserve the date for our upcoming meeting:</span></p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p><div style="border-width: medium medium 3pt; border-style: none none dotted; border-color: currentColor currentColor windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><p style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor; line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> </span></p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span></b> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Novel Approaches to the Characterization of Healthy and Dysfunctional Brain States </span></b></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span></b> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>November 12-13, 2015</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p><div style="border-width: medium medium 3pt; border-style: none none dotted; border-color: currentColor currentColor windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><p style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Cologne, Germany</span></p><p style="padding: 0in; border: currentColor;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>This symposium will explore the most up-to-date theories of normal brain function and how these processes may be altered to produce pathological states. Furthermore, it will explore the models and methods used to describe the proposed neural strategies subserving these different brain states.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Our list of confirmed speakers include:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Hagai Bergman</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Emad N. Eskandar</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>John J. Foxe</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Marc Goodfellow</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (University of Exeter)<b> </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Anthony A. Grace</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (University of Pittsburgh)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Viktor Jirsa</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (Aix-Marseille Université /CNRS)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Fernando Lopes da Silva</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>(University of Amsterdam)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Christoph M. Michel</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (University of Geneva)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Urs Ribary</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (Simon Fraser University)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Günter Schiepek</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (Paracelsus Medical University)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Wolf Singer</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research)</span></p><p style="line-height: 150%;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Dimitri van de Ville</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>(University of Geneva)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Registration and further details will be forthcoming and also available at </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1Eaha1o" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://bit.ly/1Eaha1o</font></span></a><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11.5pt;" lang="EN"><font face="Calibri">.</font></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";' lang="EN"></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>We look forward to welcoming you to Cologne in November!</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>With best regards,</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span></p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Rowshanak Hashemiyoon</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>, PhD</span></p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Chief, Behavioral Neurophysiology and Computational Neuroscience</span></p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Klinik für Stereotaxie und Funktionelle Neurochirurgie </span></p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Universitätsklinikum Köln</span></p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Kerpener Str. 62<br>D - 50937 Köln</span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><br>Email: </span><a href="mailto:row.hashemiyoon@uk-koeln.de"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><font color="#0000ff">row.hashemiyoon@uk-koeln.de</font></span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><br></span><a href="http://www.uk-koeln.de/de/stereotaxie" target="_blank"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><font color="#0000ff">http://www.uk-koeln.de/de/stereotaxie</font></span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. <b>Veerle Visser-Vandewalle</b> <br>Direktorin der Klinik für Stereotaxie und Funktionelle Neurochirurgie </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Universitätsklinikum Köln (AöR) </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'>Kerpener Str. 62<br>D - 50937 Köln<br>Email: </span><a class="c_nobdr t_prs" href="mailto:veerle.visser-vandewalle@uk-koeln.de"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><font color="#0000ff">veerle.visser-vandewalle@uk-koeln.de</font></span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><br></span><a href="http://www.uk-koeln.de/kliniken/stereotaxie" target="_blank"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'><font color="#0000ff">http://www.uk-koeln.de/kliniken/stereotaxie</font></span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";'></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"></p><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"> </font></p></font><p style="line-height: normal;" class="ecxMsoNormal"><br> </p></font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> </p></div></div></div>
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