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Sunday, July 20th
Registration & Welcome Reception @ Tokyo International Forum
| Time | : | 18:00-21:00 |
Monday, July 21st
Registration
| Time | : | 8:20- |
Welcome
| Time | : | 9:00-9:05 |
| Koshi Makita |
Keynote: "Minding the Mind of Subconscious Self"
| Time | : | 9:05-9:20 |
| Jiro Kurata |
SYMPOSIUM 1:
Epidemiology and Psychology of Intraoperative Awareness
| Time | : | 9:20-11:00 |
| Moderators | : | Michael Wang Nigel R. Webster |
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Talk 1. "On the ‘Incidence’ and ‘Nature’ of Accidental Awareness during General Anaesthesia (AAGA)" Talk 2. "The Effectiveness of Anaesthetic Interventions for Prevention of Wakefulness and Awareness during and After Surgery" Talk 3. "Awareness during Anesthesia: Current Status in Japan" (A video message from Karen B. Domino regarding her following poster) |
| 11:00-11:10 | : | (Coffee Break) |
POSTER SESSION 1
| Time | : | 11:10-11:55 |
| Moderator | : | Jiro Kurata |
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Talk 1. "Epidemiology of Intraoperative Awareness" Talk 2. "Implicit Emotional Memory in ICU Patients: Replication of the Robinson Crusoe Study" Talk 3. "Propofol Induced Spike Synchrony of Pyramidal Cells in Rat Cerebral Cortex" |
LUNCHEON SEMINAR 1
| Time | : | 12:00-13:00 |
| Moderator | : | Makoto Ozaki |
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"Awareness during General Anaesthesia: Risk Factors and Prevention" |
| 13:00-13:15 | : | (Coffee Break) |
SYMPOSIUM 2 "BJA Special":
Mechanisms of Anesthetic Action and Consciousness:
Molecular and Animal Models
| Time | : | 13:15-16:25 |
| Moderators | : | Anthony Hudetz Ramachandran Ramani |
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Talk 1. "Mechanisms of Anesthetic Action and Memory: Molecular and Animal Models" Talk 2. "Computational Modeling of Anaesthesia" Talk 3. "The Role of Dopamine in Reanimation from General Anesthesia" |
| 14:45-14:55 | : | (Coffee Break) |
| Moderators | : | Hugh C. Hemmings, Jr. Ken Solt |
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Talk 4. "Cortical Acetylcholine, Connectivity and States of Consciousness" Talk 5. "Ketamine Induced Synchronous Oscillations in the Cortex-Basal Ganglia Network" Talk 6. "Role of Brain Noradrenergic Neurons in Mechanism of Anaesthesia - A Proposal Focused on Its Relevance to Endogenous Sleep Related Substances -" |
EVENING SEMINAR 1
| Time | : | 16:30-17:30 |
| Moderator | : | Gerhard Schneider |
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"BIS: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" |
Banquet at the Local Tavern (Gompachi, Ginza)
| Time | : | 18:30-21:30 |
Tuesday, July 22nd
Registration
| Time | : | 8:20- |
Announcement
| Time | : | 8:40-8:45 |
| Jiro Kurata |
SYMPOSIUM 3:
Monitoring Awareness during General Anesthesia
| Time | : | 8:45-10:45 |
| Moderators | : | Ian F. Russell Anthony G. Messina |
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Talk 1. "Monitoring and Prevention of Awareness during General Anesthesia: Towards Mechanism-Based Monitoring of Anesthesia" Talk 2. "Changes of EEG during Anesthesia and Their Physiological Background" Talk 3. "The Response of BIS to Neuromuscular Blockade in Awake Volunteers" Talk 4. "The Isolated Forearm Technique" |
| 10:45-10:55 | : | (Coffee Break) |
POSTER SESSION 2
| Time | : | 10:55-11:55 |
| Moderator | : | Gerhard Schneider |
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Talk 1. "A Multimodal Indicator Combining EEG and Standard Monitoring Parameters Provides Reliable Detection of Depth of Anaesthesia with Different Anaesthetic Drugs" Talk 2. "A Comparative Study of the EEG-Return Plot with Bispectral Index Monitoring" Talk 3. "Aging Delays Emergence from General Anesthesia in Rats" |
LUNCHEON SEMINAR 2
| Time | : | 12:00-12:55 |
| Moderator | : | Koshi Makita |
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"SmartPilot View™ --- a Navigation Aid for Safer Balanced Anaesthesia" |
SYMPOSIUM 4:
Unconscious Memory Formation during Anesthesia
| Time | : | 13:00-15:00 |
| Moderators | : | Michael Wang Sinikka Münte |
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Talk 1. "Unconscious Memory Formation during Anesthesia" Talk 2. "Indirect Memory Function during Anesthesia" Talk 3. "Implicit Memory during Surgical Anaesthesia" Talk 4. "Intraoperative Paralysis and Existentialist Fear of Death: Is There a Link?" |
| 15:00-15:10 | : | (Coffee Break) |
SYMPOSIUM 5 "BJA Special":
Neuroimaging of Memory, Consciousness, Anesthesia, and Pain
| Time | : | 15:10-16:40 |
| Moderators | : | Hugh C. Hemmings, Jr. Jiro Kurata |
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Talk 1. "Dynamic Brain States and Consciousness" Talk 2. "Connectivity Changes in fMRI and EEG During Sevoflurane Anaesthesia" Talk 3. "How Brain Networks Underlie Human Pain" |
EVENING SEMINAR 2
| Time | : | 16:45-17:40 |
| Moderator | : | Peter S. Sebel |
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"Mysteries of Memory: Anesthestic Amnesia Amnesia" |
Banquet on a Boat "Yakatabune Party" (Funasei)
| Time | : | 18:30-21:00 |
Wednesday, July 23rd
Registration
| Time | : | 8:20- |
Announcement
| Time | : | 8:40-8:45 |
| Jiro Kurata |
SYMPOSIUM 6:
Unconsciousness or Unresponsiveness:
a Debate on Behavioral Monitoring during Anesthesia
| Time | : | 8:45-10:05 |
| Moderators | : | Sinikka Münte Anthony G. Messina |
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"The Significance of a Positive Isolated Forearm Technique Response: Consciousness or 'Dysanaesthesia'?" |
| 10:05-10:15 | : | (Coffee Break) |
SPECIAL SEMINAR 1
| Time | : | 10:15-11:15 |
| Moderator | : | Robert A. Veselis |
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"Intraoperative Awareness and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" |
POSTER SESSION 3
| Time | : | 11:20-11:55 |
| Moderator | : | Ramachandran Ramani |
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Talk 1. "The Difference of Nucleus Accumbens Activation between Chronic Low Back Pain with or without Psychiatric Problems" Talk 2. "Brain Complexity Quantification to Assess the Level of Consciousness" |
LUNCHEON SEMINAR 3
| Time | : | 12:00-12:50 |
| Moderator | : | Kazuo Hanaoka |
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"Subconscious Processing and Chronification of Pain" |
SPECIAL SEMINAR 2
| Time | : | 13:00-13:55 |
| Moderator | : | Anthony G. Hudetz |
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"The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness – Theory and Practice" |
| 13:55-14:05 | : | (Coffee Break) |
| (Posters and exhibits will be removed after 15:00) |
SYMPOSIUM 7 "BJA Special":
Dynamics of Brain Connectivity in Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness
| Time | : | 14:05-15:35 |
| Moderators | : | Robert A. Veselis Patrick Purdon |
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Talk 1. "Recovery from Anesthesia; Bootstrapping into Consciousness" Talk 2. "Functional MRI of Memory and Consciousness" Talk 3. "Neurons, Networks, and Clinical Neurophysiology during Anesthesia-Induced Unconsciousness" |
"BJA SPECIAL" SESSION ON THE FUTURE OF MAA
| Time | : | 15:35-15:55 |
| Moderators | : | Nigel R. Webster Hugh C. Hemmings, Jr Jiro Kurata |
Closing Remarks and Adjourn
| Time | : | 15:55-16:00 |
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"See You at the MAA10 in 2017!" |



