Don’t Forget!
UT Neuroscience Research Center Hosting Forum on Memory
| WHAT: | The Neuroscience Research Center at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston will present “Memory,” a free public forum on learning, memory, and the impact injury, disease and disorders can have on the brain’s ability to remember. The forum is part of National Brain Awareness Week. |
| WHEN: | 10:30 a.m. – Noon, Saturday, March 11, 2006 |
| WHERE: | Room 3.001 in the UT Medical School Building, 6431 Fannin St. Pay parking available in TMC Garage Four, behind Memorial Hermann Hospital and the medical school |
HOUSTON – (Feb. 23, 2006)–“Memory” will be a topic not to forget at the 2006 Brain Awareness Week Public Forum, hosted by the Neuroscience Research Center (NRC) at the UT Medical School at Houston.
“Memory is central to everything we are,” said John H. Byrne, Ph.D., director of the NRC. “Understanding how it works – and how it fails – represents one of the major unsolved mysteries in brain science.”
James A. Ferrendelli, M.D., the Kraft W. Eidman Professor in the Medical Sciences and chairman of the Department of Neurology, will moderate the event. The forum will provide easy-to-understand information about the types of memory, how we learn, and the effects that aging, injury and disease have on memory to the lay public. Panelists for the forum, and their topics, include:
- Patricia Averill, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences – “Types of Memory and Effects of Normal Aging”
- Joshua Breier, Ph.D., associate professor of neurosurgery – “Different Types of Memory Function and Dysfunction”
- John H. Byrne, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy – “Memory Mechanisms”
- Robert Guynn, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science – “Clinical Aspects of Memory Other than Dementia”
Last year’s topic was “The Aging Brain.”
For more information, call Laura Ross at 713-500-5538.