^{31st Clinical Neuroscience and Neurogenetics Conference: Mobilizing Neurons to Rehabilitate} August 13-14, 2018 Dubai, UAE

Dr. Rajendra D. Badgaiyan, MD, is a psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist. He is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Richmond University Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He received formal training in psychiatry, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular imaging and neuroimaging. He was awarded the prestigious BK Anand National Research Prize in India and Solomon Award of Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on the study of neural and neurochemical mechanisms that control human brain functions. He developed the single scan dynamic molecular imaging technique (SDMIT) to detect, map, and measure neurotransmitters released acutely in the human brain during task performance. This technique is now used in laboratories all over the world. Using this technique, he studies dopaminergic control of human cognition and behavior. He is also interested in learning the nature of dysregulated dopamine neurotransmission in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions. His research is funded by NIMH, NINDS, VA, and various foundations. Previously he served in the faculty of Harvard Medical School, SUNY Buffalo and University of Minnesota. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.

psychiatry, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular imaging and neuroimaging

Temitope Farombi MD, FMCP (Neurology), is a graduate of University of Ibadan. She trained in internal medicine at the University College Hospital (UCH) and Neurology at UCH Ibadan Nigeria She obtained masters degree in Clinical Neuroscience at King’s College London. Temitope is a consultant Neurologist at the Chief Tony Anenih Geriatric center University college hospital, the first geriatric center in West Africa sub-region. Temitope practice specializes in the critical care neurology of the elderly, movement disorders, Dementia and headaches. Temitope was a visiting scholar to the Northwestern University Chicago, USA and has published articles in scientific journals.

Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience

A longtime direct co-worker of Prof. Dr. Madjid Samii in Hannover, Germany. Besides general micro neurosurgery, special interest and expertise in the management of head trauma, neuro-oncology, stereotaxy and radiosurgery, spinal surgery including less invasive techniques and neuroradiology. Presently since 2014, Middle East Chairman of ICLASS. Active Member and Board Member of numerous international societies, among these: SAS, German Neurosurgical Society, AANS and the Skull Base Study Group. Fluent in English, German, Spanish, Italian and with knowledge of French. Since 2017, additionally, Lead Neurosurgeon at the Waldkrankenhaus for Special Surgeries by Leipzig, Germany-Trauma, Sport, and Spine Department.

Neurosurgery, craneo-encephalic trauma, neuro-oncology including stereotaxy and radiosurgery, spine surgery including less invasive techniques and neuroradiology.

He is the most prominent and well- known researcher in the field of Hypnotherapy and hypnosis in Iran. Beside being graduated in anesthesiology and cardiac anesthesia as subspecialty, he has been trained in heart transplantation anesthesia in Paris (2009) and became a faculty member of Iran University of Medical Sciences (Tehran) at the same time. He is an associate professor of cardiac anesthesia in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and the director of Training program of cardiac anesthesia fellowship there. He is one of the first trainers in Iranian Scientific Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ISSCH) who has nearly 30 years of experience in the field. He has been a board member of ISSCH for 18 years and has the most important role in the enhancement of clinical hypnosis as a science in Iran. Dr. Fathi has organized four international congresses on hypnosis in Iran (2012,2013 , 2015 and 2016) while he was the scientific secretary and main organizer of them. He is also the scientific secretary and main organizer of the first world congress on hypnodontics (September 2016) and international congress on Mental training (2017). He is the main organizer of the first Asian hypnosis congress on October 2019. He has organized more than 200 hypnosis conferences around Iran universities and presented many articles in national and international conferences. He has been the supervisor or advisor of more than 50 Master’s thesis to post-doctoral dissertations based on the integration of hypnosis with psychology, medicine and anesthesia in Iran. Dr. Mehdi Fathi has published many articles in international journals (ISI and PubMed indexed) and he has written 65 book titles about hypnosis and health care. He is the chief of the only branch of ISSCH in Khorasan province in Mashhad and a pioneer in using hypnosis for painless childbirth in Iran

Hypnotherapy, Clinical Hypnosis