Brunel Brain Awareness Week DAY 1

Starts: Monday 11 March 2013 10:00 am
Ends: Monday 11 March 2013 7:00 pm
Event type Conference
Location Darwin Room
This is a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits or brain research. One day is devoted to widening participation activities and demonstrations that A-Level students can get involved in; and the other is for a lecture series provided by internal and external speakers about current research.

 10:00-10.45

Welcome Coffee

10:45 - 11:00

Dr. Alex Nowicky

Introduction to talks

11:00 - 11:30

Ms Alyson Warland and Dr Emmanuel Tsekeleves

Using the Wii to ReWiiRe the brain after stroke: the development of a personalised rehabilitation system for the arm

11:30 - 12:00

Dr Emmanouil Karteris and Ms Julie Davies

The novel role of neurohormones in the aitiopatogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease

12:00 - 12:30

Professor Michael Wright

Brain electrical responses (ERPs) of chess experts and novices in rapid identification of "knight" and "check" targets - an update

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:00

Dr Mazda Beigi

Cognitive modulations due to treatments in movement disorders

14:00 - 14:45

Professor Ray Paul

Living with Parkinson's Disease: Shake, Rattle, and Roll

14:45 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 - 16:00

Dr Guido Orgs

What you can do changes what you see

16:00 - 16:30

Dr Liory Fern-Pollak

Does it matter to our brain which languages we speak?

17:00 - 18:00

KEYNOTE: Prof. Sophie Scott - University College London, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Prof Scott is head of the Speech Communication Laboratory at the ICN, and will be discussing her work on the neural basis of human speech processing.

18:00 - 19:00

Wine and cheese reception

Contact details

Name: Sarah Davies
Email: 1042230@my.brunel.ac.uk

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