Brain Awareness Week March 15-21, 2004

Photos from 2004 Brain Awareness Week: click on a thumbnail for a larger version.

Schedule of Events

(12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Monday through Friday
Neuroscience Table in Front of the Administration Library Building)

March 16, 2004:

5:30-6:30pm - Wild Dunes Community Center.
Stroke and Alzheimer's Disease
Dr. Tim Carter, Neurology and Dr. Dan Lackland, Biometry.

7-8pm - Seabrook Island Community Center.
Stress, Aging, and the Brain
Dr. Kenneth Bergman, Neurology and Dr. Charlotte Granholm, Physiology and
Neuroscience.

7:30-8:30pm - Dunes West, Thomas Lynn Hall.
Stress, Aging, and the Brain.
Dr. Bernie Maria, Pediatrics and Dr. Mark Kindy, Physiology and Neuroscience.

School activities:

Bernie Maria - Trident Academy - 3/15/2004
Kumar Sambamurti - Whitesides Elementary - 3/16/2004
Mark Kindy - Carlo/Pinkney - 3/16/2004
Lotta Granholm - Porter Gaud - 3/15/2004
Jackie McGinty - School of the Arts - 3/16/2004/-3/17/2004
Karen Szumlinski - Mt. Pleasant Academy - 3/10/2004- 3/17/2004

Please contact Melissa Moore for further information at 792-0559 or
email moorme@musc.edu

The national Brain Awareness Week site can be found at www.dana.org/brainweek

Brain Awareness Week Schedule March 10-14, 2003

Monday 3/10/03

• Dept. of Physiology & Neuroscience laboratory tours:
  AM Charleston Collegiate Academy 9th grade science class.
  PM 3d-5th grade classes from West Ashley elementary.
  
• "Stress, Aging, and the Brain"
  6-7PM at The Club at Seabrook.
  This community outreach seminar will feature Robert Malcolm, M.D., Dept. of Psychiaty, who will discuss stress and anxiety disorders, David Bachman, M.D., Depts. of Medicine, Neurology, and Psychiatry, who will discuss Alzheimer's disease and stroke, and Charlotte Granholm-Bentley, DDS, Ph.D., Dept. of Physiology & Neuroscience, who will discuss memory fitness and decline in normal aging.
  

Tuesday-Wednesday 3/11-12/03

Neuroscientists, including faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from MUSC will be visiting science classes in the Charleston County Schools 7th grade science teacher at the Charleston County School of the Arts 7th grade science classes.

Wednesday 3/12/03

"Something in the Way You Move" 7-8:30 PM in the 8th floor auditorium of The Storm Eye Institute. This community outreach seminar will feature Kenneth Bergmann, M.D., Dept. of Neurology, who will discuss movement disorders, James S. Krause , Ph.D., Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, who will discuss spinal cord injury, and Mark S. Kindy , Ph.D., Dept. of Physiology and Neuroscience, who will discuss aging, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke.
The event is free and parking is available across from SEI.

Thursday 3/13/2003

Neuroscience Grand Rounds 11:30Am SEI 8th floor
Alim L. Benabid, M.D., Ph.D. , CHU Albert Michallon, Preclinical Neurobiology, INSERM
Grenoble 38043 France
"High Frequency Deep Brain Stimulation as a new tool for Functional Neurosurgery: Application to Parkinson's Disease, Epilepsy, OCD and Cluster Headache"

Friday 3/14/2003

Frontiers in Neuroscience Day , Holiday Inn Folly Beach
and annual meeting of SC Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience

Brain Awareness Week links:

National Brain Awareness Week website.

NIH Brain Awareness Week Symposium (featuring Kathleen Brady, MUSC Dept of Psychiatry).