Neurosciences Grand Rounds 2005

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August 2005

Thursday, August 25, 2005

"Molecular Mimicry in Neurological Diseases"

Michael C. Levin , Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Neurology and Anatomy and Neurobiology
Director
Multiple Sclerosis Center and Laboratory of Viral and Demyelinating Diseases
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN

September 2005

Thursday, September 1, 2005

"Evaluation and Treatment of Gelastic (Laughing) Seizures: Is there lateralization of emotive function in the brain?"

Paul B. Pritchard, III, M.D.
Professor of Neurology
Director of Adult Epilepsy Program

Mark T. Wagner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Neuropsychological Services

Steve Takacs, M.D.
Assistant Professor Neurological Surgery

Department of Neurosciences
Medical University of South Carolina

Thursday, Sepember 15, 2005

"Cardiovascular Disease Mechanisms in Sleep Apnea?"

Abu Shamsuzzaman, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
Department of Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN

Thursday, September 22, 2005

"Acute stroke therapy: present approaches and future prospects"

Marc Fisher, M.D., FAAN
Professor Neurology
Department of Neurology
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, MA

Thursday, September 29, 2005

"Radical Control of Alzheimer's Pathology"

Carol A. Colton, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology
Duke University Medical Center

"Translating a Gene to a Therapy: Novel Anti-Inflammatories Based on Apolipoprotein-E"

Michael P. Vitek, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology
Duke University Medical Center

October 2005

"Long Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Musculoskeletal and Neuropathic Pain: Rehabilitation of Palliation?"

"Protecting Axons and Promoting Plasticity in Multiple Sclerosis"

"Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Alzheimer's Disease"

David L. Bachman, M.D.
Professor and Division Director
Adult Neurology
Medical University of South Carolina

"Dystonia and Deep Brainn Stimulation"

Michele Tagliati, M.D.
Associate Professor
Division Chief, Movement Disorders
Department of Neurology
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York

"Multiple Uses of AEDs: Reasons and Limits "

Michael J. McLane, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Director, Neuromagnetic Research Epilepsy
Department of Neurology
Vanderbuilt University
Nashville, TN

"Great Shakes: Famous People and Parkinson's Disease"

Jeffrey M. Jones, M.D.
Neurologist
Battle Creek Health System (BCHS)
Select Specialty Hospital
Oaklawn Hospital
Battle Creek, Michigan

"Alzheimer's Disease: Therapeutics and Drug Development"

Kumar Sambamurti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Medical University of South Carolina

Jacobo E. Mintzer, M.D.
Professor and Co-Director of Alzheimer's Research & Clinical Programs
MUSC Health Sciences Foundation and AstraZeneca Scholar in Geriatric
Psychiatric Education
Department of Psychiatry
Medical University of South Carolina