As a result of the positive feedback to our conferences of the past
four years, we have decided to organize this year the fifth conference on the
Neurophysiology of Developmental
Disorders
in Children
The conference aims to create an international platform for researchers to present and
discuss their current work. As established during the past years the main focus will be on
developmental disorders from the neurophysiological point of view.
This conference is sponsered by 
and 
Program:
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
18.30 h Social Event / Reception "Neurolinguistisches Labor", Freiburg
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9.15 - 12.00 h SYMPOSIUM: Specific Language Impairment
Chair: Valerie Shafer
9.15 -10.15 h Valerie Shafer (New York, USA)
"Will Johnny Have SLI? Or Can Neurobiological Measures Predict Language
Outcome?"
10.15 - 10.45 h Regine Oberecker (Leipzig, Germany)
"Processing Phrase Structure Information in Two- and Five-year-old Language Impaired
Children"
10.45 -11.00 h Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 h April Benasich (Newark,USA)
"Prediction of Language Delays from Infancy to Later Childhood using EEG/ERPs:
Converging Evidence for the Role of Inefficient Rapid Auditory Processing"
11.30 - 12.00 h Paavo Leppanen (Jyväskylä, Finland)
"Infant Brain Event-related Potentials and Associations to Verbal Skills and
Cognition
in Children at Risk for Familial Dyslexia"
13.30-15.30 h Autism
Chair: Klaus Hennighausen
13.30-14.00 h Klaus Hennighausen (Freiburg i.Br., Germany)
"Pervasive Developmental Disorders - Clinical and Neuropsychiatric Features"
14.00-14.30 h Magali Batty (Tours, France)
"Neurophysiology of Perceptual Processing of Emotional Faces in Normal and Autistic
Children"
14.30-15.00 h Christina Schmitz (Marseille, France)
"A Motor Perspective on Autism"
15.00-15.30 h Reinhold Rauh (Freiburg i.Br., Germany)
"Cognitive Deficits in High Functioning Autism / Asperger's Syndrome": An
On-going Project
at the Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital
Freiburg"
15.30-16.00 h Coffee Break
16.00-18.30 h SYMPOSIUM: Brain Correlates of Suprasegmental Cues
of Spoken and Written Language in Dyslexia
Chair: Valeria Csépe
16.00-17.00 h Valéria Csépe (Budapest, Hungary)
" Suprasegmental Speech Cues: An Ignored Feature?"
17.00-17.30 h Ferenc Honbolygó (Budapest, Hungary)
" Deficits of Stress Pattern Processing in LKS: ERP and PET"
17.30-18.00 h Anett Ragó (Budapest, Hungary)
"MMN to Stress Pattern Changes in Preterm Babies"
18.00-18.30 h Claudia Männel (Leipzig, Germany)
"Processing of Sentence-Level Prosody in 4-Year-Old Children."
18.30 h-19.00 h Dyscalculia
18.30-19.00 h Burkhardt Fischer & Klaus Hartnegg (Freiburg i.Br.,
Germany)
"Subitizing and Counting by memory in Children with Problems in Arithmetic Skills:
Development, Daily Practice, Tranfer"
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Chair: Robert D. Oades
9.00-10.00 h Robert D. Oades (Essen, Germany)
"ADHD: Physiology and Consequences"
10.00-10.30 h Maddie Groom & Chris Hollis (Nottingham, UK)
"Specificity of ERP Findings in Adolescence with ADHD"
10.30-11.00 h Roeljan Wiersema (Ghent, Belgium)
"ERP Studies on Macro- and Micro-Adjustments in ADHD"
11.00-11.30 h Coffee Break
11.30-12.00 h Andreas Fallgatter (Würzburg, Germany)
"Alteration of Prefrontal Brain Function in ADHD"
12.00-12.30 h Catharina van Meel (Leiden, The Netherlands)
"The Good, the Bad, and the Hyperactive Child:
Monitoring of Internal and External Error Signals in ADHD"
12.30-13.00 h Leon Kenemans (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
"Attention and Inhibition as Revealed by ERPs and Performance Measures"
13.00 -14.00 h Lunch Break
14.00-15.00 h Cochlea
14.00-15.00 h Roland Laszig (Freiburg i.Br., Germany)
"20 Years Experience with Cochlea-Implants"
15.00-16.00 h Coffee Break / Poster Session
Karen Banai (Evanston, USA)
"What can Brainstem Timing Teach us about Learning Disabilities?"
Hanna Putter-Katz1-2, Liat Kishon-Rabin2, Emma Sachartov1-2, Esther L.
Shabtai2,
Michelle Sadeh3, Raphael Weitz3, Natan Gadoth4, Hillel Pratt5
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University / 3: Child Neurology Unit,
Schneider Medical Center, Petach Tiqwa / 4: Neurology Dpt., Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba
5: Evoked Potentials Lab., Technion-IIT, Haifa / Israel )
"Differences in Auditory Cortical Response to Place of Articulation
Contrasts in Dyslexia: An Event Related Potentials Study"
Andrew Smart (Stockholm, Sweden)
"Modulating Cognitive Control and Working Memory in ADHD with Stochastic Resonance
and Interstimulus Interval: an ERP and Behavioral Study"
Riikka Lovio (University of Helsinki, Finland)
"Determining the Auditory Multi-Attribute Discrimination Profile
in Dyslexia by Using the Mismatch Negativity"
Gregor Kohls et al. (Freiburg i.Br., Germany, Neurolinguistisches Labor,
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg)
"Nonword repetition and sentence recall in children with ADHD"
Tanja Rinker et al. (Freiburg i.Br., Germany, Neurolinguistisches Labor,
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg)
"Early and Late MMN in SLI-Children and Healthy Controls"
16.00 - 19.00 h SYMPOSIUM: Neurobiology of Dyslexia
Chair: Gerd Schulte-Körne
16.00-17.00 h Gerd Schulte- Körne (Marburg, Germany)
"Dyslexia Endophenotypes"
17.00-17.30 h Jascha Rüsseler (Magdeburg, Germany)
"Event-related Brain Potential Studies of Information Processing
in Adult Developmental Dyslexic Readers"
17.30-18.00 h Thomas Lachmann (Bamberg, Germany)
"Diagnostic Subgroups of Developmental Dyslexics have Different Deficits
in Neural Processing of Tones and Syllables"
18.00-18.30 h Heinz Wimmer (Salzburg, Austria)
"On Brain Dysfunctions Associated with Dysfluent Reading: fMRI and ERP Findings"
19.00 h Social Event/Dinner
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You are hereby cordially
invited and it would be our pleasure to welcome you in Freiburg:
Time: December 2nd and 3rd , 2005, 9-18 h
Place: "Haus zur Lieben Hand", Löwenstraße 16, Freiburg, Germany
Registration Fee: 160 Euro
(This fee includes access to all symposia and poster sessions, badge, certificate of
attendance, abstract book and refreshments)
Konto:
"Neurolabor", Prof. Dr. Michael Schecker
Commerzbank Freiburg i.Br.
No.Nr. 15 21 293
BLZ 680 400 07
All presentations will be held in English. - We would like to ask you to send us proposals
for symposia by July 15, 2005 and topics and abstracts for presentations and posters by
September 30, 2005. Please register by September 30, 2005 under
neurophys05@neurolabor.de
or:
Neurolinguistisches Labor
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Werthmannplatz 3, Postfach 225
D- 79085 Freiburg
or
Fax +49 - (0)761 - 203 - 3233
May we also please ask you to inform your colleagues about our conference and to add this
information to your mailing list?
Thank you very much!
With best regards
Michael Schecker
Eberhard Schulz
Klaus Hennighausen
Roland Laszig
Verena Maas
Bianca Körner
Gregor Kohls
Cathrin Richter
Tanja Rinker