 17th
International Conference of the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa Marrakesh-Morocco April, 17-20, 2025 |
Thursday, April 17,
2025
08:00 |
Whole Day Registration
09:00 – 11:00 | Symposia:
Session 1
·
SP1 (Room1): “Brain Circuits for Motor and Social Behaviors”
Organizer:
Abdeljabbar El
Manira (Sweden)
·
SP2 (Room2): “Serotonergic Modulation and Neurochemical Pathways in
Neurological Disorders”
Organizers: Philippe
De Deurweardere (France) & Victor O. Olotu (Nigeria)
11:00
– 11:15 Coffee
Break
11:15 – 11:45 | Opening Ceremony
·
Prof. Belaid Bougadir, President of the Cadi Ayyad University
·
Prof. El Hassan El Mouden, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences Semlalia
·
Mohamed Bennis, President of SONA2025 and President of the organizing
committee
·
Nouria Lakhdar-Ghazal, President of the Scientific Committee
·
Sadiq Yousuf, General Secretary of the SONA
·
Hon. Mai Mala Buni, Executive Governor of Yobe State, Nigeria
11:45 – 12:45 | Opening Lecture:
“How
GABAergic neurons shape cortical
circuit assembly in health and disease”
Speaker: Rosa Cossart (France)
sponsored keynote
12:45 – 14:30 | Welcome Reception
14:30 – 15:15 | Plenary Lecture 1:
“Stress across generations: Mechanisms for altering brain
development”
Speaker: Tracy Bale (USA)
sponsored
keynote
15:30
– 17:30 | Symposia: Session 2
·
SP3 (Room1): “Emerging Effectors in Neurodegeneration: From Molecular
to Therapeutic Targets”
Organizers:
Inès El Bini
Dhouib & Rym Benkhalifa (Tunisia)
·
SP4 (Room2):
“Molecular Targets of Addictive Drugs and Associated
Behaviors”
Organizer:
Mohammed Kabbaj (USA)
·
SP5 (Room3): “Young Women Investigators in Africa”
Organizer: Nouria
Lakhdar-Ghazal (Morocco)
·
SP6 (Room4):
“The Science of Burnout: From Brain Mechanisms to Holistic
Management Approaches”
Organizer: Daniel
Gams Massi (Cameroon)
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:30 | Oral
Presentations: Sessions 1&2
·
Room 1/
Session 1. Topic: “Clinical
Neurosciences and Epidemiology of Neurological and Psychiatric
Disorders”
Chair of the session: Fatima Zahra Lamghari-Moubarrad, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
|
Time Slot |
Speaker |
Title of the Oral Communication |
|
18:00 -18:10 |
Igor BRANCHI (Italy) |
Plasticity as a clinical marker: implications for
resilience and vulnerability to psychopathology |
|
18:10 -18:20 |
Irina SHOSHINA (Russia) |
Ocular microtremor in assessing the dynamics of the
condition in schizophrenia |
|
18:20 -18:30 |
Sonia BANSAL (USA) |
Clinical, perceptual, and neural features associated with
hallucinations in clinical and non-clinical voice hearers |
|
18:30 -18:40 |
Oualid ASSEM (Morocco) |
Contribution of brain scanning to pediatric emergencies |
|
18:40 -18:50 |
Soufiane EL MOUSSAOUI (Morocco) |
Febrile seizures in pediatric emergency departments:
Epidemiological study |
|
18:50 -19:00 |
Sarah Anna AESCHLIMANN (Switzerland) |
Electroencephalographic Resting-State Microstates are
Unstable in Visual Snow Syndrome |
|
19:00 -19:10 |
Chaimae BOUAB (Morocco) |
Relationship between thyroid dysfunction in a Moroccan
population and behavioral status |
|
19:10-19:30 |
General Discussion |
|
·
Room 2 / Session 2. Topic: “Ethics, Sleep,
and Neuroscientific Insights from Animal and Computational Models”
Chair of the session: Rachida Roky, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco
|
Time Slot |
Speaker |
Title
of the Oral Communication |
|
18:00-18:10 |
Tom BULLER |
Brain and environment: can neuroethics meet the challenge
of the future? |
|
18:10-18:20 |
Victoria WILLIAMS |
Artificial intelligence: ‘Exploring empathy in language
models' |
|
18:20-18:30 |
Dionysia KAZIKI |
Low-Rank Tensor Decomposition for Cross-Bispectral
Analysis of Neural Data |
|
18:30-18:40 |
Rachida ROKY |
Sleep, Chronotype, and Stress Among Students: A Sex-Based
Analysis |
|
18:40-18:50 |
Hicham FARSI |
Circadian Regulation of Rumination in Desert Black Goats (Capra hircus): Evidence for an Endogenous Rhythm |
|
18:50-19:00 |
Gbenga ODERINDE |
Co-administration of Omega-3 fish oil and Cannabidiol
ameliorates amygdala-hypothalamic toxicity induced by sleep deprivation
in adult male Wistar rats |
|
19:00-19:10 |
Mohammed El Mehdi M'HANI (Morocco) |
Entrainment of the master circadian clock by the timing
of food distribution in goats (Capra hircus) |
|
19:10-19:30 |
General Discussion |
|
·
Room 3 /ALBA Network-IBRO
Workshop: 18:00-19:30
“Equity in
publishing: strategies for inclusive publishing and knowledge sharing”.
Organizer: Francesca Cirulli (Italy)