In response to the pandemic, the Symposium will be held in a combination of online (via ZOOM) and in-person elements, in order to allow participants from around the world to participate in the event.

Participants who are unable to attend the Symposium in person can join the meeting on ZOOM. Please find the ZOOM link for joining the symposium (Zoom ID: 550 918 9563).

Programme Rundown (tentative)

Day 1 – 19 November 2021

15:15 Opening Ceremony
15:30 Poster Session
15:45 Prof. Yingjie ZHU
Orchestrating Opiate-Associated Memories in Thalamic Circuits
16:15 Coffee Break
16:30 Prof. Christian RUFF (Keynote Speaker)
Perceptual determinants of individual styles in risk-taking and preference-based choice
17:45 Prof. Xiaowei GUAN
The brain circuits involved in addiction and the intervention of Chinese Medicine against addiction
18:15 Prof. Hang ZHANG
The inductive biases in learning probability distributions
18:45 Welcome Banquet

Location: N1-G014

Day 2 – 20 November 2021

8:30 Prof. Luke CLARK (Keynote Speaker)
Loss chasing, decision-making, and gambling addiction
9:10 Prof. Mingzhou DING (Keynote Speaker)
Analyzing Coherent Brain Networks with Granger Causality
9:50 Prof. Marc POTENZA (Keynote Speaker)
Substance and Behavioral Addictions: Reward, Control, and Decision-making and Their Relationships to Neural Processing and Treatment Outcomes
10:30 Prof. Shenglin WEN
Cognition and related biological techniques of nonhuman primates
非人靈長類動物的認知及相關生物學技術
11:00 Prof. Xun LIU
Neurocognitive mechanism of addiction susceptibility
11:30 Prof. Zhen YUAN
Mapping of executive function and decision-making impairments in gambling addiction by using functional near-infrared spectroscopy
12:00 Prof. Haiyan WU
Variations in EEG state during face perception predicts impression change and following decisions
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Prof. Qi-yang NIE
Illusory preference by association: Variability aversion in decision making is domain specific
14:30 Prof. Yong LIN
氯胺酮快速抗抑鬱的精神病理基礎及進展
15:00 Prof. Robin CHARK
Non-equilibrium plays under strategic uncertainty
15:30 Coffee Break
15:45 Postdoc/PhD Student Session
18:25 Closing Ceremony (Award Presentation)

Location: N1-G014