2014
“Neuromodulation today and tomorrow: can doctors change my brain functions?”
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Centre for Brain Health, Lecture Theatre, Rm 101 (found below the main floor)
2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3
Dr. Elena Moro, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, will be speaking on Neurology, Neuroethics, Neurotechnology: the new challenges
Click here for Dr. Moro’s bio.
The talk will provide an overview of the current and future possibilities to modulate the activities of the human brain. She will particularly focus on ethical, neurological and psychiatric aspects of deep brain stimulation.
The Consulate General of France in Vancouver with support from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia has brought leading French scholars to UBC in a program titled French Scholars Lecture Series, English Lectures by Notable French Academics / Cycle de conférenciers français à l’université de Colombie-Britannique. The program invites UBC Scholars to nominate academics from France, from diverse disciplinary and research backgrounds, to participate in dialogue with their Canadian counterparts.
2013
Better to Prevent than Cure: Is it that Sure? The Alzeimer’s Disease Case
Thursday, June 13, 2013,
4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
Rm 104, Allard Hall
1822 East Mall, Vancouver
(Flyer enclosed)
Dr. Hervé Chneiweiss, MD PhD, is a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Centre for Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Paris Descartes Medical School, Université Paris Descartes, and Head of the Neuroscience Paris Seine Laboratory CNRS/ Inserm/ Université Pierre et Marie Curie. He studies molecular mechanisms involved in glial plasticity and underlying brain tumor development.
Diseases affecting the central nervous system are among the main problems of our countries. Modern life stresses on one hand, and ageing on the other, make them an increasing burden. They already represent one third of health costs with a continuous increase. Furthermore very few treatments exist to help patients, and even less for cure. Progress in neuroscience and in genetics opens new avenues for diagnosis and hopefully for prevention.
The department of Neuroscience of the new Institute of Biology Paris Seine at UPMC Paris, headed by Dr. Chneiweiss, is developing basic and preclinical research on psychiatric and neurological diseases. These research endeavours reveal genetic risk factors and new biomarkers that may help an early diagnosis or define a human population that may need more surveillance. They are also raising critical ethical questions such as who will have to be under scrutiny, what is the risk of stigma in the school or workplace, who will have to be treated, and how will associated costs of such a prevention be sustainable?
The Consulate General of France in Vancouver with support from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia has brought leading French scholars to UBC in a program titled French Scholars Lecture Series, English Lectures by Notable French Academics / Cycle de conférenciers français à l’université de Colombie-Britannique. The program invites UBC Scholars to nominate academics from France, from diverse disciplinary and research backgrounds, to participate in dialogue with their Canadian counterparts.
