6^th Annual Conference on
Brain Disorders, Neurology and Therapeutics

Dr. K M Nazmul Islam Joy is an assistant professor of neurology at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He graduated from Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka in 2004. Dr. Joy joined the 25th Bangladesh Health Cadre Service in 2006 and worked in various health institutes in the country. He completed fellowship (FCPS) in Internal Medicine from Bangladesh College of Physicians & Surgeons in 2015 & MD in Neurology from Dhaka Medical College under University of Dhaka in 2016. He is a specialist practitioner of Internal medicine & Neurology at his personal settings in Dhaka. Dr. Joy is a member of the International Headache Society and International Parkinson & Movement Disorder Society. He is also a member of Society of Neurologists of Bangladesh and a founder member of the Headache Society of Bangladesh. Being an academician and clinician, Dr. Joy actively participates in population-based and clinical studies particularly in headache medicine, movement disorders, and clinical electrophysiology.

Movement disorders, Headache medicine, and clinical electrophysiology.

Mrs. Anne-Marie Kehres, a Masters in Neurorehabilitation and work as a generalist Physiotherapist at Proserpine Hospital. She has implemented a Neurorehabilitation program as well as balance and strengthening programs at Proserpine Hospital. Her position demands that she put on multiple hats as she works across all areas from inpatients, outpatients, emergency, orthopedic, pediatric, women’s health and day surgery. She works with a great interdisciplinary team focussed on wholistic treatment and discharge planning. As a private Physiotherapist, She has also worked tirelessly to keep our local nursing home open and well-funded, through funded activities and fund raising. Her passion has and always will be neurological disorders. Her aim is to spread the message that Physiotherapists not only treat symptoms and body parts but also act as advocates to better the quality of life of our patients.

Neurorehabilitation

Dagmar Breznoščáková MD, Ph.D is psychiatrist, psychotherapist, expert witness in psychiatry, the Vice-president of Slovak Psychiatric Association, chairwoman of the Section of Psychopharmacology SPA and CPT member Council of Europe in respect of Slovak Republic. The topic of her postgraduate study was Carbohydrate metabolism and Depression. She is working as an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Law and Philosophy University P. J. Safarik in Košice. She also lectures and publishes in her field, focusing on affective and anxiety disorders, particularly bipolar disorder, comorbidity of mental disorders and psychosomatic connections. She is a co- author of several chapters in foreign as well as domestic publications, author of psychoeducational handbooks for patients and their relatives; all over 150 publication outputs. She holds prizes for the best original work for the journal Psychiatry in practice and figures in the biographical encyclopedia Slovak personalities „Who is who“.

Psychotherapist, Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology

Dr. Fofi Constantinidou is Professor of Language Disorders and Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology and Director of the Center for Applied Neuroscience at the University of Cyprus. She is Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) and of the American Speech‐Language Hearing Association. Her research focuses in the area of acquired adult neurological disorders and their effects on intellectual and cognitive abilities, in particular learning, memory, executive systems, and categorization. Constantinidou has published extensively on brain injury and aging and her research has been funded by NIH, the European Union, the industry and the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation. She is Chair of the International Networking Group of ACRM and a member of the Board of Governors of ACRM. In addition, she is Deputy Chair of CPLOL, the European Association of Speech Language Therapy Professionals and President of the Cyprus Association of Registered Speech Language Pathologists. Professor Constantinidou is the 2019 recipient of the Distinguished Member Award of ACRM.

Language Disorders and Clinical Neuropsychology

Dario Furnari is Ph.d. in Applied Biomedical Sciences in the neuroscience and traumatology and neuropharmacology sector

The lines of research on which he worked at the University of Catania, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences, section of applied physiology and kinesiology and motion control, have been in the field of neuroscience, in particular in the role of beta-amyloid and glycoprotein F3 in the synaptic plasticity of hippocampal memory of mice and then in Alzheimer's disease; he dealt with behavior and various behavioral tests in mice; of electrophysiology of in vitro slices of hippocampus, stereotaxy and cannulation implantation, administration of drugs and animal welfare.

MS.SUCHI is an experienced International Pre School Principal/Manager who picked up Laughter exercises from many coaches around the world. She then designed ‘Laughter Therapy' which is being used in many places such as hospitals and Senior Activity Centres. She provides individual and group therapy in educational and home settings

Adopting laughter therapy to get dosage of happy hormones to remove stress caused by being in slight pain ,being depressed, being unhappy anxious or sad. Saying positive affirmations aloud changes body cell energy.

Mikhail Reshetnikov – MD, Ph.D., Professor, Rector of the East-European Psychoanalytic Institute (University, St. Petersburg, Russia). He is author of more than 200 articles and 12 monographers and text-books. The main directions of his research activity are psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy.

Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy.

Prof. Radu Mutihac is Chair of Medical Physics Section, University of Bucharest, and works in Neuroscience, Signal Processing, Microelectronics, and Artificial Intelligence. As a postdoc/research associate/visiting professor/full professor he has run his research at the University of Bucharest, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy), Ecole Polytechnique (France), Institute Henri Poincaré (France), KU Leuven (Belgium). Data mining and exploratory analysis of neuroimaging time series were addressed during two Fulbright Grants in Neuroscience (Yale University, CT, and University of New Mexico, NM, USA). His research in fused biomedical imaging modalities was carried out at the Johns Hopkins University, National Institutes of Health, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, MD, USA. Since 2008, Prof. Mutihac has been nominated PhD student supervisor in the field of Physics at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Prof. Mutihac is member of the ISMRM, ESMRMB, OHBM, Romanian US Alumni Association, and fellow of Signal Processing and Neural Networks Society IEEE, as well as referee for several journals of the Institute of Physics (London, UK), Neural Networks (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and evaluator/expert for the ISMRM, OHBM, ARACIS, CNCSIS, UEFISCDI, The Romanian – U.S. Fulbright Commission, and the European Commission (FP7, H2020). Prof. Mutihac published over 120 scientific papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals, 12 monographs, and contributed with chapters in the other 10 textbooks published by renowned scientific publishing houses. He participated in more than 150 scientific meetings with posters and oral presentations, seminars, invited and plenary lectures, as well as acting as member of the organizing committees, special session organizer, chairperson, and keynote speaker. Following his scientific activity, Prof. Mutihac has been nominated scientific referee for 12 journals, such as IOP, IEEE journals and alike, as well as Member of the Editorial Board of 8 journals in the field of Neuroscience: J. Romanian College of Medical Physicists, J. Childhood & Developmental Disorders, J. Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Medical and Clinical Reviews, J. of Translational Neurosciences, Epilepsy J., The Neurologist - Clinical and Therapeutics J., and Advances in Neurology and Neuroscience.

Fundamentals of Neuroscience; Functional Neuroimaging and Fused Imaging Modalities – fMRI, DTI, PET, SPECT, CT; Neurological Disorders and Brain Dysfunction; Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Brain Connectivity – Connectomics; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Natural and Artificial Neural Networks – Modeling and Simulation; Pattern Recognition and Facial Recognition; Essentials of Biostatistics; Data Mining and Exploratory Data Analysis; Digital Image and Signal Processing; Evolutionary Computation – Simulated Annealing (SA) and Genetic Algorithms (GA); Ethics in Scientific Research; Health and Medicare Policy; Micro- and Nanoelectronics – Analysis and Design of VLSI Circuits.

Haijun TU, Ph.D., a Professor of neuroscience, an assistant Dean of College of Biology, a director of International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Biomedicine and Life Analytical Chemistry, Hunan University. He is He is currently a member of Society for Neuroscience and Chinese Neuroscience Society. His research interests are focusing on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of ischemia-induced Neuronal injury & Protection and Repairing and of neural regulation of innate immune response. He has published more than ten articles in the neuroscience field of journals such as Nature, Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience, EMBO Journal. He completed his postdoc training in the Bessereau laboratory of Génétique et Neurobiologie de C. elegans at University Claude Bernard Lyon1, CGphiMC UMR CNRS 5534, Lyon from July, 2013 to June, 2015 and in IBENS, INSERM U1024, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France from January, 2011 to June, 2013. Dr. Tu received his Ph.D. degree at Huazhong University of Science & Technology in 2008, received his master degree at Wuhan University in 2004. He received the award of Les Grandes Avancees Francaises en Biologie, Pix AXA – Academie des sciences in 2015.

Neuroscience