Date: Friday, August 29
Time: 09:30-12:10
Location: Brussels
Chair: H.W.M. Steinbusch (European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON), Maastricht, The Netherlands

Introduction

Depression–like behaviour is both in humans as well as in rodents difficult to measure. In this symposium the speakers will cover the areas of measuring the differences between humans, rats and mice in anxiety-related behaviour and its relation towards cognition and stress. Finally, two speakers will deal with the effects of the immune-system on anxietylike behaviour and its possible implications towards further neurodegeneration.

Program

• 09:30 Prenatal stress produces anxiety- and depression-related behavior particularly in male Sprague-Dawley rats
  D.L.A. Van den Hove1, G. Kenis¹, M. Bruschettini¹, C.E. Blanco², H.W.M. Steinbusch¹ and J. Prickaerts1 (¹European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON), Maastricht, The Netherlands; ²Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
  

• 09:50 Synaptic plasticity dysfunction in vivo
  Michael Rowan (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
  

• 10:10 Interferon alpha induced depression-like behavior in the rat
  Ayemy Myint (Munich, Germany)
  

• 11:50 Coffee break
  

• 11:30 The olfactory bulbectomised rat as a model of depression
  Briane Leonard (Galway)
  

• 11:50 Measuring behavior with chronic stress depression models in mice
  T. Strekalova (Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
  

• 12:10 End of session

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