7th Brain Conference, 12 March 2027
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
Prof Irene Tracey: The Brain’s Experience of Pain: From Perception to Mechanism
09:50 - 10:50
Chair: Prof Rimona Weil Co-Chair: Dr Pao-Sheng Chang
Prof David Bennett: Human pain channelopathies
Prof Andrew Dilley: Peripheral Neuroinflammation: Mechanisms Underlying Persistent Pain
10:50 - 11:20
11:20 - 13:20
Chair: Prof Belinda Lennox Co-Chair: Dr Laurent Sheybani
Dr Katie Marwick: Reproductive Psychiatry: Birth of a Field?
Prof David Belin: On the multifaceted nature of incentive drug seeking habits: relevance for our understanding of addiction.
Prof Rachel Upthegrove: Immune dysfunction in severe mental illness
Professor Francesca Happé: Autism and Functional Neurological Disorder
13:20 - 14:40
14:40 - 15:55
15:55 - 16:25
16:25 - 17:55
Chair: Prof Oliver Bandmann Co-Chair: Dr Christopher Gilmartin
Prof Matthew Brookes: Next generation functional brain imaging
Prof Zameel Cader: iPSCs derived organoids in translational neuroscience
Professor Valentina Escott-Price: Big Data and AI for Dementia Research: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Next
17:55 - 18:00
18:00 - 19:00
19:00