Programme Details

Sessions in theme: Nervous System Disorders

  • Metabolic and vascular contributors to dementia
  • Normal ageing: Alzheimer’s disease risk factor number one
  • Complex genetics of neurodegeneration
  • Mechanisms of reward-seeking
  • The role of synapses in neurodegenerative diseases
  • Human stem cell models of neurodegenerative disease
  • Cannabinoids in psychiatric neuroscience: medicine or menace?
  • The pedunculopontine nucleus – a new target for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease
  • Teasing out the mechanisms of depression
  • The neuroimmunology of stroke: inflammation, immunosuppression, infection and injury
  • Brain repair: from fish to human
  • The utility of biomarkers in CNS drug development
  • The immune system and the brain
  • Gene therapy for CNS disorders
  • Thinking of multiple sclerosis neurodegenerative pathology in a regenerative way