Our second minisymposium in the Neuroscience Singapore 2020 series happened on Monday 14th December, 2:00 to 3:30 PM SGT. It was on Motivation and Emotion, and moderated by Adam Claridge-Chang (Duke-NUS Medical School). There were three talks, including one international speaker: The Hourglass of EmotionsErik CambriaNanyang Technological University Teaching the brain to fearJoshua JohansenRiken Center for Brain Science, Japan . . . read more

On 9th December 2020, the Chapter held a mini-sympoisum on Brains in Social Interaction. Using second-person neuroscience to develop a 21st century social psychiatryLeonhard Schilbach, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry Inter- and intra-personal neural mechanisms of social learning during infancyVictoria Leong, Nanyang Technological University The session was moderated by George Augustine of LKC NTU

On 4th December 2020, the Singapore Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience held a half-day symposium organized by Hong Xu, Ajay Mathuru, Caroline Wee, Sarah Luo, and Adam Claridge-Chang. The Keynote speaker was Christof Koch of the Allen Brain Institute. The program also included Flash talks by Singapore-based scientists. Attendance peaked during Professor Koch’s talk, . . . read more

Traumatic brain injury: the patient perspective Jonathan Liu Founder Beyond Broken Brains Twitter: @brokenbrainsco Web: https://www.brokenbrains.sg/ Talk given at Neuroscience Singapore 2019 Friday 26th September https://www.sfn.sg/ns2019-day-one/ Symposium organized by Society for Neuroscience, Singapore Chapter.Introduction by Dr Ajay Mathuru, Yale-NUS.

Hongyan Wang Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School speaking on Waking up “sleeping” neural stem cells.