Opening Session: Gaetano Bignardi - Rector, University of Genoa
Chairpersons: Mauro Mancia, Franco Orsucci

9.00-9.45
Mauro Mancia University of Milan. Italian Psychoanalytical Society
"Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: memory, unconscious and dream"

9.45-10.30
Naoyuki Osaka & Mariko Osaka - Kyoto University
"A word expressing affective pain activates the anterior cingulate cortex in the human brain: An fMRI study"

10.30-11.00
Coffee break

11.00-11.45
Jorge Armony - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Interactions between emotion and cognition: A neurobiological perspective"

11.45-12.30
Guido Gainotti - Catholic University, Rome
Emotions, unconscious processes and the right hemisphere"

12.30-13.00
General discussion

Chairpersons: Leonardo Ancona, Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca

15.00-15.45
Michael C. Anderson - University of Oregon, USA
"Suppressing Unwanted Memories: Cognitive and Neural Systems"

15.45-16.30
Matthias Bischof University Hospital, Bern
"Total Dream Loss (Charcot-Wilbrand Syndrome): A Distinct Neuropsychological Dysfunction after Bilateral Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke"

16.30-17.00
Coffee break

17.00-17.45
Martha Koukkou & Dietrich Lehmann - The KEY Institute of Brain-Mind Research,
University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich, and Bern, Switzerland
"The brain's experience-dependent plasticity and state-dependent recall and creation of subjectivity of mental functions"

17.45-18.30
General discussion

18.30-19.00
Mauro Mancia
Concluding remarks