Neural Circuit Dynamics

Neural Circuit Dynamics is organized by Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies (NSAS) and will be held from Sep 13 - 20, 2025 at Veneto Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts c/o Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Veneto, Italy.

Description:
The Decade of the Brain, and subsequently the Brain Initiative, were primarily devoted to developing novel tools and providing new windows on brain function and disease. Spectacular progress has been made in various fields of neurotechnologies, and the movement recruited experts from different disciplines, from chemistry to math to AI. At the same time, there is growing recognition that science is not just the art of measuring the world and that cutting-edge techniques are necessary but not sufficient for a deeper understanding in neuroscience. Observations must be organized into coherent theories to allow further progress. Hence, a forum is needed to address overarching views and offer new theoretical frameworks to synthesize current knowledge and advance our thinking in new directions.

This Advanced Course will address novel directions in systems neuroscience research. While plenty of data will be discussed, the main emphasis will be on overarching hypotheses and theories, the relationship between experimentation and theory, and between fundamental neuroscience and treatments for disease. Accordingly, the faculty is drawn from a range of neuroscience fields, from action to perception, development to preconfigured and plastic adult brain, experimental design to mathematical frameworks, and animal experiments to clinical testing.

Overall, the Advanced Course will allow students and scholars to familiarize themselves with novel directions that should guide experimental design and interpretation of observations.