Join the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation for an evening on neuronal plasticity. Our brains are permanently remodeled by experience. In this meeting, Pierre Magistretti and Francois Ansermet will discuss how the mechanisms of neuronal plasticity –critical for learning and memory – may also be key in the establishment of the dynamic unconscious, as described by psychoanalytic theory. This inner unconscious life proceeds from associations and re-associations of traces in neuronal networks; these processes can free the subject from initial experiences while being based on them. The lecture will also explore the mind-body connection in a way that opens novel perspectives for understanding the dialogue between bodily states and neuronal traces of experience, leading the way to personal freedom, identity and change.

7:00 - 8:00 pm   
Wine & Cheese Reception

8:00 - 9:30 pm   
Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P., Moderator
Executive Director, The Neuropsychoanalyses Foundation

Professor Pierr J. Magistretti, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience, Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at EPFL 
and Director of the Center of Psychiatric Neuroscience at the University 
of Lausanne Medical School and Hospital 

Professor François Ansermet, M.D.
Chief of Service, Department of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Geneva &
Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva

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