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PLENARY
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BRAIN, MIND & REALITY
STOCKHOLM 2011 MAY 1-8, 2011
AULA MAGNA HALL, STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY
Pre-Conference Workshops: May 1
Deepak Chopra: May 2, Aula Magna Hall
Aula Magna Forum: May 2 evening
General Conference: Tuesday May 3 – Saturday May 7, 2011, Aula Magna Hall
Additional Workshops: May 7
Tentative Plenary Program
KEYNOTE
Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford
Tuesday May 3
Plenary 1, 8:30 am to 10:40 am
Brain Electromagnetic Fields and Consciousness
McCormick D, Yale, Endogenous Electric Fields Guide Cortical Network Activity
Pockett S, Auckland, Electromagnetic Field Theory Of Consciousness: The Shape Of
Conscious Fields
McFadden J, Surrey, The Continuous Electromagnetic Information (CEMI) Field
Theory of Consciousness
Plenary 2, 11:10am to 12:30 pm
Time and Consciousness I
Atmanspacher H, Freiberg, Temporal Nonlocality In Bistable Perception
Gonzalez-Andino S, Geneva, Backward Time Referral in the Amygdala of Primates
Plenary 3, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm
Consciousness in the Universe
Chopra D, Chopra Foundation Vedic Approaches To Consciousness And Reality
Mlodinow L, Pasadena, Grand Design
Zizzi P, Padua, Consciousness In The Early Universe
Wednesday May 4
Plenary 4, 8:30 am to 10:40 am
Transcranial Therapies
Wassermann E, NIH, Transcranial Stimulation and Consciousness
Snyder A, Accessing Information Normally Beyond Conscious Awareness by
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
Tyler WJ, Arizona State, Transcranial Ultrasound Therapy for Brain Injury
Plenary 5, 11:10am to 12:30 pm
Neural correlates of consciousness I
Malach R., Weizman, Local Neuronal Ignitions And The Emergence Of Perceptual Awareness
Plenz D, NIH, Neuronal Avalanches, Coherence Potentials, And Cooperativity:
Dynamical Aspects That Define Mammalian Cortex
Plenary 6, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm
Varieties of Religious Experience
Beauregard M, Montreal, Neuroscience of Transcendent Experiences
Padr. Paulo Roberto, Rio de Janeiro, Sacred Plants of Amazonia
Moreira-Almeida, A., Juiz De Fora, Differential Diagnosis Between Spiritual Experiences and Mental Disorders
Thursday May 5
Plenary 7, 8:30 am to 10:40 am
Microtubules
Tuszynski JA., Edmonton, Information Processing Within Dendritic Cytoskeleton
Bandyopadhyay, A , NIMS, Tsukuba, Direct Experimental Evidence for Quantum
States in Microtubules and Topological Invariance
Tanzi R , Harvard, Zinc link between aBeta and microtubule instability in
Alzheimers disease
Plenary 8, 11:10am to 12:30 pm
Time and consciousness II
Bierman D, Amsterdam, Presentiment
Cerf M, NYU, Time effects in human cortical neuronal firings
Thursday afternoon free
Friday May 6
Plenary 9, 8:30 am to 10:40 am
End of life brain activity
Chawla L, GWU, Surges of Electroencephalogram Activity at the Time of Death. A
Case Series.
Fenwick P. London, Death and the Loosening of Consciousness
Van Lommel P. , Amsterdam, Nonlocal Consciousness: A Concept on the Continuity
of our Consciousness
Plenary 10, Keynote, 11:10am to 12:30 pm
Sir Roger Penrose (tentative date)
Plenary 11, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm
Neural correlates of consciousness II
Hesslow G, Lund, The Inner World As Simulated Interaction With The Environment
Ehrsson H, Karolinska, Neural Correlates of Body Illusions
Ullen F, Karolinska, The Psychological Flow Experience: From Phenomenology to
Biological Correlates
Saturday May 7
Plenary 12, 8:30 am to 10:40 am
Anesthesia and consciousness
Hudetz A, Milwaukee, Anesthetics and Gamma Synchrony
Franks N, London, Molecular Actions of Anesthetics
Hameroff S, Tucson, Meyer-Overton Meets Quantum Physics
Plenary 13
Quantum biology
Vitiello G , Salermo, Quantum properties of DNA
Bernroider/Summerhammer, Salzburg, Quantum Properties in Ion Channel Proteins
Plenary 14, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm
Consciousness and Reality
Kafatos M, Chapman, Consciousness and The Universe: Non-local, Entangled, Probabilistic and Complementary Reality
Kallio Tamminem K, Helsinki, Quantum physics and Eastern philosophy
Pylkkanen P, Helsinki, Bohmian view of consciousness and reality
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