This school will focus on the neural basis of behavior and the origin of behavioral disorders. It will consist of different lectures, seminars, and experimental work covering fundamental, translational, and clinical studies and techniques aimed to research in neurodevelopment, sexual, parental, aggressive/defensive behavior, reward and aversion, stress and anxiety, cognition, and consciousness.

The school will start covering fundamental aspects of neurodevelopment and theconsequences of early experiences on brain development that would lead the student to understand the basis of early behavioral and cognitive disorders. Talks will quickly move
into adolescence and prevalent behavioral disorders at this age and cover then adult behavior and behavioral disorders. Students will learn the neurobiological basis of healthy and altered behavior and will discuss how genetics and early and late experiences interact to contribute to the emergence of behavioral disorders.

This School will cover mainly mammalian species, emphasizing the human health and disease. Students will participate of short experimental projects. The school will be intense and is planned to last 9 days. During that intensive week all students will be exposed to different techniques used in animals or humans for research purposes (Immunoreactivity, receptor autoradiography, local field potential recording, PET/MRI, behavioral test, psychometric scales, stereotaxic surgery and brain lesions, among others).

A panel of 7 Latin American researchers will lead the school and every two years the school will take place in a different country in Latin America, making slight changes each year to take advantage of each country’s strength. Lecturers from basic, translational, and clinical research from Latin America will be invited to participate in person or virtually. Six or seven speakers outside Latin America will also be invited to participate either in person or virtually.

Information: schoolbehavioralneuroscience@gmail.com