BRAIN DAY 2011 – Programme
FROM FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH TO THERAPY
A day with a focus on Bochum’s neuroscience with lectures, information stands and activities.
07.09.2011, 12-17, RUB Conference Center
PROGRAMME
| 12:00 | BEGIN OF THE SUPPORTING PROGRAM Presentations of support groups Activities to join in |
| 13:00 | WELCOME Prof. Dr. Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Speaker of Collaborative Research Centre 874, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 13:15 | 13:15 OPENING Helmut Dockter, state secretary of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research NRW (representing the NRW Science Minister) |
| 13:30 | WHAT CAN MODERN PROTEOMICS DO? Prof. Dr. Kathrin Marcus, Head of department “Functional Proteomic” at the Medical Proteom-Center Bochum |
| 14:00 | FROM MICE TO MEN: INNOVATIVE THERAPIES IN NEURO-REHABILITATION Prof. Dr. Martin Tegenthoff, Head of the neurological department at the Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil |
| 14:30 | COFFEE BREAK + SUPPORTING PROGRAM |
| 15:30 | THERAPY APPROACHES IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: CAN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS STILL CONTRIBUTE? Prof. Dr. Ralf Gold, Head of neurological department at St. Josef-Hospital Bochum |
| 16:00 | BRAIN UNDER STRESS: HOW STRESS HORMONES INFLUENCE OUR MEMORY Prof. Dr. Oliver Wolf, Chair of cognitive psychology, Faculty for psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 16.30 | THE POWER OF SCENT: FROM MOLECULE TO THERAPY Prof. Dr. mult. Hanns Hatt, Chair of Cell Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Ruhr-University Bochum |
SUPPORTING PROGRAMME
DANCING KEEPS YOU FIT: TRIAL DANCE LESSON WITH TONIS TANZSCHULE
Since 2008 the Ruhr-University’s Neural Plasticity Lab has been investigating the positive effects of dancing on the ageing process. The result: dancing keeps you fit. Tonis Tanzschule and CLUB AGILANDO pick up on these findings and present a combination of dancing, rhythmic gymnastics and entertaining choreographies to watch and to try out.
Contact persons:
PD Dr. Hubert Dinse, Jan-Christoph Kattenstroth, Neural Plasticity Lab,
Institut for Neural Computation, Ruhr-University Bochum,
and
Antoni Olkusznik, Tonis Tanzschule, Gelsenkirchen
THE HUMAN BRAIN: AN ARTS AND CRAFTS WORKSHOP
Cerebellum, cerebrum, brain stem. Frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe. Where are they? And what do they do? Bochum’s biopsychologists will answer these questions in their arts and crafts workshop.
Contact persons:
Felix Ströckens, Biopsychology. Faculty of Psychology,
Ruhr-University Bochum
SPIRAL DRAWINGS REVEAL DISEASE PROGRESSION:
PROJECT PRESENTATION INCLUDING LATEST DATA
Neurologists of the Ruhr-University have developed an impressively simple method to track the progression of Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. In regular intervals, in their home or at a medical center, patients draw a spiral on a piece of paper, which they then fax to the RUB-Clinic. In a matter of minutes a computer then performs a standardized evaluation.
Contact persons:
PD Dr. Peter Kraus, Neurological Clinic, St. Josef Hospital, Bochum
INFORMATION STANDS OF THE SUPPORT GROUPS
Alzheimer Gesellschaft Bochum e.V. Demenz-Servicezentrum Region Ruhr
Bundesverband Kinderneurologie-Hilfe e.V.
Clusterkopfschmerz Selbsthilfegruppe Recklinghausen/nördl. Ruhrgebiet
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke e.V.
Deutsche Multiple Sklerose Gesellschaft Ortsvereinigung Bochum und Umgebung e.V.
Deutsche Myasthenie Gesellschaft e.V. Regionalgruppe Bochum/Dortmund
Deutsche Parkinson Vereinigung e.V. Regionalgruppe Bochum
Gesichtsfeldausfall Selbsthilfegruppe Niederrhein
Neuronale Ceroid-Lipofuszinose Gruppe Deutschland e.V. Regionalgruppe West
Restless Legs Selbsthilfegruppe Bochum
DIRECTION
Public Transport: subway U35 exit “Ruhr-Universität Bochum”, enter through Mensa (university cafeteria)
Car: via Universitätsstraße, Parking Deck P9, then follow signposts
Download Map Directions here.