May 23, 2005 at Centre of Gender Related Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Nobel Forum, Nobels vg 1, Solna, Sweden.
Program
09.00 - 09.05 Introduction
Ivanka Savic
09.05 - 09.10 Opening of the symposium
Professor Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson,
Chancellor of the Karolinska Institute
Session I Sexual dimorphism of the brain and the underlying mechanisms
Chairman: Jan-ke Gustafsson & Yasmin Hurd
09.15 - 09.45 Arthur P Arnold: The neural origin of sex differences in the brain.
Department of Physiological Sciences, UCLA, USA
09.45 - 10.15 Donald Pfaff: Differences in transcript levels in specific regions of male and female brains during the period of CNS sexual differentiation.
Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York
10.15 - 10.45 COFFEE
10.45 - 11.15 Roger Gorski: Cerebral dimorphism, sexual orientation and identity
Department of Neurobiology, UCLA, USA
11.15 - 11.45 D. Swaab: Is sexual dimorphism of the brain plastic?
Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Amsterdam 1105 AZ, The Netherlands
11.45 - 12.15 Jan-ke Gustafsson: ERbeta and CNS function
Department of Bioscience, Karolinska Institute, NOVUM, SWEDEN
12.15 - 13.30 LUNCH
Session II Sex differences in brain function
Chairman: Luciano Martini & Zsuzsanna Wiesenfeld-Hallin
13.30 - 14.00 Tomas Paus: Sex differences in structure and function during childhood and adolescence
Brain & Body Centre University of Nottingham
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Contact: Sabina Bossi
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Karolinska Institutet
12-May-2005